Planner

BCT Design Group; Baltimore (MD); Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

BCT Design Group seeks an experienced planner specializing in district planning, master planning, and transit-oriented development. The candidate should be an architect, urban designer, or landscape architect with at least 10 years of experience and a proven leadership track record.

The role involves facilitating workshops, engaging communities, and presenting design concepts to clients and stakeholders, with emphasis on streetscape, public realm, and sustainable collaboration.

Qualifications

• Academic degree in Urban Planning, Architecture, or Landscape Architecture.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in district/master planning, TOD.
• Strong portfolio showing scale and complexity.
• Certification as a Certified Planner (AICP) or Landscape Architect (CLARB) is desired.

Responsibilities

• Curate and run design workshops and charrettes.
• Manage client relationships.
• Manage schedule and budget for master planning projects; represent the firm at client meetings and oversee other designers.
• Support project teams with production of materials and coordination with other designers and principals.
• Support communications with clients, other consultants and public agencies; develop presentations and reports.
• Create working sketches and diagrams to communicate questions and ideas.
• Research regulations and precedents guiding the project.
• Ideate and graphically communicate concept alternatives for various scales.

Skills

Leadership

Client relationships

Workshops

Charrettes

Data visualization

Education

Urban Planning

Architecture

Landscape Architecture

Job description

BCT Design Group is seeking an experienced planner specializing in district planning, master planning, and transit-oriented development. Candidates should be an architect, urban designer, or landscape architect with at least 10 years of experience. This is a leadership position in an established studio doing work nationally and internationally.

Our firm has a long tradition of master planning highly successful, complex, mixed-use people-based environments to clients around the world. We engage in our work from the concept vision down to the final implementation of the project using our 5 studios specializing in various typologies. Our focus is community-oriented development and redevelopment, with social inclusion, resiliency and sustainability as key components. Our projects include sensitivity to streetscapes and public space design. This role will entail active participation in meeting facilitation, community engagement, charrettes and presentations, as well as leading the design effort.

Candidates should display strong graphics skills and demonstrate excellent planning design principles; an academic degree in Urban Planning, Architecture, or Landscape Architecture; a minimum of 10 years of experience in this area of design; and a strong portfolio of similar work showing scale and complexity. Certification as a Certified Planner (AICP) or Landscape Architect (CLARB) is desired. Our success has been achieved by producing compelling visions that graphically come to life on paper, masterplans and 3D renderings. We are looking for individuals that exude self-confidence and can speak easily among clients, community members, and other professionals. A thorough understanding of planning principles should include massing, building typologies, site circulation, parking and other zoning requirements, public processes and project development. A comprehensive understanding of the design that occurs between buildings is essential – streetscape and the public realm.

In particular, the successful candidate can use a combination of graphics skills to express data visualization and diagrams. As one example, combining old-school hand drawing with modern software techniques results in powerful and understandable graphic explanations of the design principles being communicated. Special attention to presentation materials includes a sensitivity to graphic design, including layout composition, typography, and compelling illustrations.

We seek team members who are driven by ambition and idealism, but pragmatic and creative; are active listeners and team players; are open to learning and sharing new knowledge; are sensitive to working with a diverse team and clients; and who possess a professional attitude. We consider this position to be a track towards Principal in the firm.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Curate and run design workshops and charrettes
• Manage client relationships
• Manage schedule and budget for master planning projects. Represent the firm at client meetings and oversee the work of other designers in the project.
• Support project teams with production of materials, working closely with other designers and principals.
• Support communications with clients, other consultants and public agencies. Work with project teams to strategize presentation material and direct the development of presentations and reports.
• Create working sketches and diagrams to communicate questions and ideas within the project team, and to consultants and clients.
• Research and understand regulations, policies, strategies, guidelines and precedents that guide the project.
• Ideate and graphically communicate concept alternatives for a range of project scales, from small sites to districts.

EXPERIENCE

10+ Years as Architect, Landscape Architect, or Urban Designer

LOCATION

EMPLOYMENT TYPE

Full-Time

Must be authorized to work in the United States