Urban Designer

Job Description

Urban planning careers involve helping communities decide how best to use their land and resources with an eye toward future growth and revitalization.Urban planners, also called regional or city planners, recommend locations for roads, schools, and other infrastructure in order to help local officials solve social, economic, and environmental problems.Job Summary:
• Responsible for initiating and developing engineering drawings through completion for assigned projects in conformance with the requirements, applicable codes, and design criteria established by the projects discipline engineers.
• Under direct supervision, completes design assignments of moderate complexity.
• Under general supervision, develops engineering drawings of moderate complexity.
• Applies a solid level of understanding within a specific discipline.
• Familiar with codes, permits, and software applications related to the discipline.
• Understands the process of preparing designs and drawings using project specifications and discipline-associated written and verbal instructions in accordance with established design practices, standards, and procedures.
• Basic understanding of Engineers process of performing and verifying design calculations to support the overall project design.
• Fully understands the purpose and use of vendor documents and reviews discipline supplier documents for accuracy.
• Basic knowledge of the use of requisitions and the role of materials management.
• Assists in the collection of data on manpower, man-hour, and labor costs requirements for design staff to aid in evaluating the budget.
• Basic knowledge of cost estimating methods and performs material take-offs for the discipline.
• Intermediate knowledge of disciplines materials costs and concept of cost analysis and forecasting.
• Basic knowledge of the project change control process and can identify a potential change.
• Basic understanding of the disciplines equipment and material lists.
This job generally requires the ability to do the following work:Prepare plans and studies Conduct inspections Prepare site approval documents Coordinate with other local governments Create and interpret maps and diagrams Meet with public officials and the public regarding development plans and land use Recommend approval or denial of proposalsUrban planners identify the best way to meet community needs in terms of infrastructure and handling growth. This involves overseeing all aspects of planning, including reviewing research on economic and environmental impacts.Planners work with developers and with other communities on the best way to turn proposals into reality. This also sometimes means recommending that proposals be rejected if research and analysis show that the project would not be beneficial or might actually be detrimental.Urban Planner Skills & CompetenciesUrban planners need to have a lot of specific knowledge and experience to be good at their jobs, but they also need certain soft skills to help them manage the sometimes challenging environment of government work.Flexibility: Deadlines and specific priorities for projects often change, and planners need to adapt. Verbal Communication: Planners need to be able to interact with members of the public, including the local business community, and members of elected councils and boards. Its important to be able to communicate a municipalitys planning needs while also listening to the interests and priorities of others. Leadership: Urban planners need to be able to serve as a point person on community projects, often overseeing a staff of other planners or local employees. Analytical skills: Urban planners need to be able to review a lot of data from environmental studies, market studies, population demographics, and more. They need to be able to use that information to come up with the best possible solutions to planning problems.

Keyskills :
urban designcost analysisarchitectureinfrastructurechange controldesign calculationscost estimation