Associate Planner; be Underfilled

Associate Planner

May be underfilled based on qualifications.

• Associate Planner: $44.57/hr – $48.00/hr
• Assistant Planner: $38.50/hr – $41.46/hr

The City of Wildomar is currently hiring for an Associate Planner to join the Planning Division within our Community Development Department. This role will have a variety of duties including research, analysis, and interpretation of social, economic, population and land use data and trends. The ideal candidate is comfortable working in a collaborative and professional environment where communication with staff, developers, consultants, and the public is essential.

This position may be filled at the Assistant Planner level based on qualifications. The city offers a 4/10 schedule and competitive benefits package!

Under general supervision, performs a variety of duties related to the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of technical land use, environmental, zoning and other City planning data; provides land use and zoning information as part of the city’s zoning counter efforts, and assistance on planning-related matters to the general public and other City staff; ensures compliance with the City’s development standards;

and performs related work as required.

This is the entry level class in the Planner series. Incumbents at this level are responsible for performing general/routine professional tasks and duties assigned to positions within this series. The Assistant Planner is not expected to perform with the same independence of direction and judgment as are positions allocated to the Associate and/or Senior Planner. Since this class is typically used as a training class, employees may have only limited City planning related work experience.

Employees work under direct supervision while learning job tasks.

This is the journey level class in the Planner series. Incumbents at this level require demonstrated ability to perform a variety of responsible and increasingly complex professional planning tasks and duties with greater independence of direction and judgment; the Associate Planner is further distinguished from the Assistant Planner by the level of skill required, the complexity of assigned projects, and greater amount of time focused on planning projects as opposed to time spent working at the City’s planning counter.

Employees at this level receive general instruction or assistance as new or unusual situations arise and they are fully aware of the operating procedures and policies within the work unit.

This series may be flexibly staffed at either the entry or journey level. Incumbents appointed to the Assistant Planner (entry level) may reasonably expect to progress to the Associate Planner (journey level) upon attaining and demonstrating the full knowledge, skills and abilities of the job classification and meeting the qualifications and department requirements established for progression, which shall remain at the department head’s discretion.

Receives direct (Assistant Planner) to general (Associate Planner) supervision from the Senior Planner or Planning Manager, as assigned.

• Collects, records, and summarizes statistical and demographic information; establishes and maintains a comprehensive database.
• Participates in the research, analysis, and interpretation of social, economic, population and land use data and trends.
• Interprets the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance as it relates to project compliance with City plans, ordinances, and codes.
• Plan checks sign proposals, reviews business registrations, and other permit applications.
• Assists in reviewing development proposals and other requests made to the Planning Division for conformance with appropriate general plan and zoning regulations.
• Reviews and approves, or denies plan checks for building projects.
• Compiles information and makes recommendations on special studies; prepares technical reports.
• Makes presentations to the City Council, Planning Commission and Planning Director, standing and ad hoc committees,…