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Your future position: Urban Planner I

Choose your location: Katy, TX

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At Baxter & Woodman, both seasoned professionals and recent graduates find more than a job; they uncover a long-lasting, fulfilling career with a distinguished leader in technology and innovation. Our work environment is extraordinary and being honored as one of the 2025 Zweig Best Firms to Work For exemplifies our appreciation and respect for our dedicated staff.

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The Role , Your Impact

We are hiring a talented Urban Planner professional to join the planning team in our Katy, TX office. The Urban Planner will perform various general and specialized professional planning functions, including developing implementable comprehensive plans; existing and future land use maps; zoning maps; unified development codes; and special area plans, including neighborhood plans, downtown master plans, cultural plans, and parks and open space plans.

This candidate will assist in creating and implementing master thoroughfare plans, capital improvement programs, and active transportation plans. Beyond developing well-informed planning studies, this candidate should be proficient at facilitating public engagement efforts and providing technical expertise in analyzing data and providing development assistance services to a variety of municipal clients.

The candidate for this position needs to have experience with software programs such as Adobe Creative Suite and ArcGIS.

What Your Day-to-day Will Look Like

• Assisting in developing Planning Dept. graphic standards and product templates
• Assisting in developing various planning studies; providing technical expertise in analyzing data and preparing reports for addressing short-term and long-range projects and land use issues, while providing land development assistance services to municipal clients.
• Researching and revising municipal regulatory codes and ordinances to achieve desired results.
• Assisting with facilitating public engagement activities. Producing public engagement materials and collecting input from stakeholders.
• Communicating complex planning-related concepts and solutions to the general public by the creation of graphic and conceptual renderings.
• Making presentations to a variety of audiences, including clients, public officials, and the general public. When required, perform on-call staff planner functions for local municipalities.
• Coordinating with colleagues in fulfilling the programmatic and technical requirements for stormwater management, grading, utilities infrastructure, transportation, and other civil engineering-related issues.
• Reviewing permit applications for compliance with municipal comprehensive plans, thoroughfare plans, codes of ordinances and other land development regulations

• Bachelor's degree in urban planning, landscape architecture, urban design, or related professional field.

• 1+ years in the planning profession.
• General knowledge of land, urban, and regional planning as it pertains to transportation, parks and open space, energy, sustainability, resiliency and ecological systems therein
• Special area planning experience with districts, neighborhoods, and corridors is considered a plus.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Teams, and One Note) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software.
• Excellent technical writing, graphic, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to analyze demographic data and identify trends in employment, health and other areas.
• Ability to work with local government staff and officials to interpret and apply land development codes and subdivision regulations.
• Working knowledge of effective public engagement strategies, tools and techniques.
• Ability to articulate and explain technical issues to non-technical municipal staff, officials, and the general public.
• Ability to work collaboratively with developers, designers, and public officials.
• Knowledge of urban spatial structure and the way cities operate and function. Knowledge of municipal systems operations and management, including utilities infrastructure, stormwater management, water distribution, and wastewater collection and treatment systems.
• Ability to envision, characterize, and give form to alternative physical and social living environments.
• Ability to travel throughout Houston metropolitan area (own transportation).