Senior Planner

Job Description

Position

Description:

HBG Design seeks a Senior Planner who will impact our nationally recognized design practice by demonstrating their talent and creative vision. Take your career to the next level, influencing challenging projects in an innovative, collaborative multi-office work environment.

Job Advertisement: HBG Design seeks a Senior Planner who will impact our nationally recognized design practice by demonstrating their talent and creative vision. Take your career to the next level, influencing challenging projects in an innovative, collaborative multi-office work environment.

The Senior Planner will work alongside architects, interior designers, and technical professionals across HBG's three offices, which include Dallas, San Diego, CA, and Memphis, TN. You will be responsible for creating, maintaining, reviewing, and administering design schedule and plans of large-scale hospitality projects and communicating the schedule to project teams in all HBG office locations. The ideal candidate will be passionate about developing staff, managing client relationships, and promoting design innovation, research, and creativity.

The Senior Planner functions in many ways as a collaborator, director, orchestrator, coach, and quality controller of the designers work.

The Compensation:

$110,000 - $150,000 per year.

Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, regional cost of living, experience, and qualifications.

• Develop plans ensuring the project meets the requirements expressed in the proposal, working closely with project leadership, clients, and consultants.
• Manage the evolution of master plan to develop the architectural language for the project.
• Conduct workshops and online surveys to receive community input.
• Ensure design is compatible with building program, market studies, and clients goals and requirements.
• Contribute to larger projects in a design or technical role.
• Ability to take on Project Architect responsibilities for small scale roles.
• Provide opportunities for designers to learn, grow, and be challenged professionally. Ensure knowledge is being transferred to younger designers and that they have the right tools and training.
• Create a final report based on input from all consultant teams.

• 10 years minimum practical experience with a focus on planning for an architecture firm.
• Bachelors degree required in planning, architecture, or related field.
• Advanced knowledge of philosophies, principles, practices and techniques of planning.
• Experience in Coordinating and managing all master planning project efforts and serving as primary client liaison.
• Well-developed knowledge of one or more planning disciplines, such as land use planning/zoning, environmental planning, urban design, housing, historic preservation, civic government, commercial, or sustainable design principles and resiliency.
• Experience in construction processes.
• Knowledge of principles, methodology, practices of research, and data collection.
• Effective writing techniques.
• Knowledge of computer programs and applications, which may include Microsoft Office, Internet applications for econometric or transportation modeling, and database management.
• GIS programs and applications.
• Experience with architectural project delivery/execution and ability to work with the Project Manager to supervise the teams design and technical delivery.

At HBG Design, we value professional excellence and collaboration, and work to empower our staff around their strengths and passions. Key to this is providing our employees with an environment that is conducive to brainstorming and idea sharing, and team building. Each of HBG Designs offices in Memphis, San Diego, and Dallas, are bright, open, contemporary spaces that promote engagement and mentorship, where senior leaders can openly engage best practices and impart knowledge.

Project team members are empowered to ask questions, lead a discussion, and gain exposure to design thinking alongside some of the national hospitality and entertainment industrys best creative minds. Coffee + Collaboration offers an all-employee open platform to initiate design discussions based on active project reviews. These productive critiques help inform the general direction of design or help team members seek input on how current projects could be improved, in an encouraging environment where every voice is respected.

Weekly sessions with the Design Technology leadership team gives designers an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of technical resources alongside the individualized training each new employee receives.

Our employees agree:
The projects are challenging, which breeds creativity and innovation. Standards and expectations are high; at the same time, the atmosphere is supportive and encouraging. That combination motivates me to bring my best every day.

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