Sr Planner Planning and Development - Military veterans preferred

Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc.

What would it feel like to be part of a company guided by engaged and empowered employee-owners? To have the encouragement to run with innovative ideas? To know your opinion is valued and your voice is heard? Wouldn't you love to work in an atmosphere of transparency, respect, and accountability?

Then you belong at SEH.

SEH is currently searching for a talented Planner to join our team! This position is located in Durango, Colorado... but CAN be a remote position and can be based anywhere in Colorado!!

At SEH, our team of community planners, landscape architects and urban designers believe in the power of great places. They take their craft beyond aesthetics by integrating art and science to improve our communities’ socioeconomic, environmental and physical character. We build our work on the sustainable principles of smart growth and ecological urbanism. The joy is working with communities of all sizes looking to overcome today’s challenges and plan for the future. Join this highly collaborative team that designs spaces and meaningful places.

About the Opportunity: Are you interested in helping Rocky Mountain communities plan for their future? Do you want to see those plans come to fruition, with tangible outcomes that do more than collect dust on a shelf? Are you interested in being at the forefront of planning and economic development, while working in America’s most beautiful natural areas?

Choose a better life… not just a better job. Enjoy the good life in beautiful Durango, Colorado where we work hard…and play harder! Bike to work, ski powder, fish, hike, kayak or whatever! Improve the quality of your life… and your career.

We are looking for an individual who wants to be part of a team that provides exceptional service to our clients, and we have an immediate Full-Time opportunity for an experienced Planner within our Planning and Land Development team in Durango, Colorado.

We work with both the public and private sectors, so you can expect a variety of work and learning experiences. Responsibilities for this position include writing and preparation of Comprehensive Plans, Zoning Codes, City & County Planning Studies, Development Review and on-call planning services for local communities, entitlement services for development projects, assisting with the development and analysis of Urban Renewal Project areas, and conceptual layout and design of private development projects.

About the Community: Durango is a great place to live, work, and play. Whether you are single or family-oriented, you will find the lifestyle of Durango pleasing, playful, and progressive. Located just 2 hours from Telluride, CO, 45 minutes from Mesa Verde National Park, and 3 hours from Albuquerque, NM, Durango is the perfect place to improve your life... and your lifestyle.

Selling Points:

• Our ESOP provides you an opportunity to own part of the company – 100% of our profits are re-invested in our Employee Owners!
• SEH supports you living your best life! We offer flexible work arrangements and schedules, so you have options that work for you.
• We want you to have options to celebrate the holidays important to you and your family through our flexible paid holiday program.
• Our upcoming Paid Family Leave benefit allows you to be there for the people you love - whether it’s the family you were born into or the family you chose
• You’ll be joining a highly successful team – we value a culture of support, collaboration and trust

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Community Planning, Environmental Design, Economics, Landscape Architecture, or related field.
• Experienced professional with 5+ years of previous planning experience.
• Demonstrated strong communication skills, the ability to work independently and as a team, and client relation skills.
• Previous experience coordinating and leading public presentations, meetings, or similar activities.
• Ability to travel as needed for team meetings, client consultations, on-site inspections/visits, etc.; Occasional overnight travel will be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and previous experience with Community & Transportation Master Plans, Site Plans, Development Review and Land Use Plans.
• Previous experience with Private Entitlement projects
• Previous experience on projects utilizing Federal and/or State funding.
• Understanding of economic development, fiscal analysis, or financial modeling
• Strong spreadsheet modeling skills
• AICP strongly preferred

Who we are

Better Places. Clean Water. Renewing Infrastructure. Improving Mobility. Together with clients, we’re simplifying the world’s most complex challenges. And we’ve been doing this since 1927. SEH is employee-owned and our 800+ engineers, architects, planners, scientists and a wide array of professionals unite behind our core purpose of Building a Better World for All of Us®. You’ll find our employee-owners located across the U.S. and evidence of our work in nearly every state.

Base compensation is expected to be in the range of $65,000 and $110,000 based on skill set and experience. Check out our full benefits package at, SEH Hiring Journey

For confidential consideration, apply online or send your resume and salary requirements via fax to 651.490.2138. Please refer to the job title if you choose to fax.

Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees according to all applicable equal opportunity and affirmative action laws, directives and regulations of federal, state and local governing bodies and agencies. In keeping with this commitment, it is the policy of Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc. to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, marital status, familial status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or status as a covered veteran. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.

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SEH is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such committed to maintain equal pay for equal work and base all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.



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