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HDR is looking for an energetic, team-oriented Senior Planner/Urban Designer to join our multidisciplinary engineering and architecture office in Dallas, Texas. Our design and planning teams work with diverse private and public sector clients to create vibrant places ranging from transit-oriented developments, urban mobility corridors, redevelopment districts, campuses and waterfronts, to highly sustainable mixed-use communities. The successful candidate would augment and collaborate with a growing team of designers locally as well as across our matrix organization to provide leadership, seek new business development opportunities and contribute to our design culture with innovative and creative thinking.

Responsibilities

  • Lead in the development of an urban design practice in the Dallas office in collaboration with other disciplines and geographies
  • Manage and direct multidisciplinary teams for various projects types, including civic, institutional, campus, transit oriented development and communities, urban redevelopment and environmentally-related analyses and assessments
  • Lead interdisciplinary projects with opportunity for public realm design and planning of various types, scales and levels of complexity
  • Apply sustainability principles to various project types
  • Perform site analysis and design concept development including digital and/or hand-illustrated deliverables suitable to communicate design intent to clients and staff
  • Mentor junior, mid-level and senior staff to enable an engaged and collaborative team environment
  • Develop new business opportunity with new and existing clients, helping them to conceive ideas and establish a vision for future projects
  • Facilitate and present planning proposals with decision-makers, stakeholders and public at meetings and events
  • Provide design and thought leadership for infrastructure and public realm design in urban environments

Qualifications

  • 10-15 years of professional experience working as a planner/urban designer
  • Proven track record of pursuing and winning large-scale planning and urban design projects, including cross-selling of architecture, engineering and planning services
  • Strong master planning and design skills on urban and institutionally-scaled projects
  • Collaborative experience working within a multi-disciplinary design studio on a full range of planning and design project phases
  • Ability to recruit and retain staff
  • Excellent communication, time management, graphic and organizational skills
  • May require the ability to travel
  • An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in landscape architecture, planning with urban design specialty, or architecture from an accredited university

Please include a resume and portfolio of recent work samples (via web-based link).

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