Urban Planner Jobs

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise, and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment, and new energy. We’re one global team – over 50,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

The urbanism + Planning group of AECOM is actively seeking a motivated, technical, and highly-talented Urban Planner to join our practice in New York and contribute to our community engagement and planning portfolio of work. As part of the project team, the planner will develop innovative and multi-faceted community engagement and outreach strategies, tools, and materials in support of high-profile design & construction projects throughout the New York City metro area.

AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building engineering, workplace strategy, business transformation, asset advisory, economics and development planning, master planning, urban planning, and landscape architecture. With a range of expertise from strategy and design through project realization, we create better outcomes to grow economies, protect natural systems, conserve natural resources, make societies more equitable, and connect and engage people through innovative, sustainable design solutions. Our teams have worked on signature projects such as the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy Framework, to the new plan for the LA2028 Olympics, to industrial facilities for GE and Rolls-Royce, to headquarters and workplaces for NASA, Unilever, Sony Music, DirecTV, Box, Inc., and many Fortune 500 companies.

This position is expected to begin in August 2023.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Evaluate the adequacy of community facilities and agency assets in meeting current and projected needs.
• Support discrete project tasks as required.
• Identify community problems, issues, and opportunities in particular neighborhoods that could be mitigated through better community planning, design, and outreach.
• Develop high-quality, user-friendly presentations, exhibition boards, reports, and other deliverables in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and InDesign.
• Assist with updates and maintenance of internal project SharePoint site and external project website.
• Work efficiently on 2 to 5 projects at a time under the supervision of a project manager, and prioritize multiple tasks needed to meet deadlines.
• Write and present formal and technical reports, working papers, and correspondence.
• Support community and stakeholder engagement activities, including strategic planning and event attendance.
• Participate in on-site meetings and workshops in a support role.
• Provide additional support as needed to the larger planning, design, economics, and outreach team, to ensure the smooth execution of projects and the continuity of excellent client and community relationships.
• Conduct extensive research in specific or general project areas.
• Support the project team in development and execution of community planning and outreach strategies on multiple concurrent projects.
• Compile data and conduct research in support of project delivery
• Communicate effectively with the project team and manager
• Prepare urban design existing conditions and concept studies.
• Create innovative and informative graphics for internal and public-facing presentations and workshops.
• Write, design, and format public communications, including emails, letters, reports, and documents.
• Assist project manager and other team leads on all project tasks ensuring deadlines are met, including project research, GIS analysis, mapping, and coordination, policy and zoning analysis, interdisciplinary coordination, meeting coordination, scheduling, public outreach, noticing, and the detailed preparation of progress drafts, interim and final deliverables.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS in Urban Planning or related degree or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Participated in an Internship to gain professional exposure to the Urban Planning field
• Exposure to commonly used software programs utilized in Urban Planning positions such as ArcGIS, Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar

Additional Information

• Relocation is not available for this position.
• Non-Exempt Position The hourly range for this position is $29.40 - $40.42
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
• Sponsorship is not available for this position.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.