Junior Urban Planner

Our  B&A Studios  team has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Urban Planner  to join them in the  downtown Calgary  office. As part of CIMA B&A Studios combines its recognized expertise in planning design and community engagement with the breadth of CIMAs engineering and consulting services. This creates unique opportunities for our employees to work on impactful projects that shape communities across Canada. By joining our team you will benefit from the creativity and collaborative spirit of B&A along with the scale resources and growth potential offered by CIMA one of the countrys leading multidisciplinary firms.

The Junior Urban Planner is responsible for supporting the creation of plans and policies that guide the development zoning and management of land in cities and regions. This role focuses on developing your career as a planner and offers many opportunities for professional growth through hands-on planning experience. Working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team the Urban Planner contributes to high-quality innovative and practical planning solutions that serve a wide range of clients and project types.

Responsibilities :

• Manages urban planning projects under the supervision of a Senior Planner Associate or Partner.
• Conducts research on urban development trends demographics and land use.
• Develops land use plans zoning regulations and policies.
• Writes proposals and prepares reports with oversight from a Senior Planner Lead or Director.
• Creates plans that address housing transportation infrastructure and environmental concerns in partnership with other teams and disciplines.
• Collects and analyzes data on economic social and physical factors affecting land use projects future community needs and prepares narrative reports.
• Acts as a project team liaison and monitors project performance (deadlines budget deliverables).
• Identifies and recommends business development opportunities.
• Applies knowledge of municipal governance structures planning legislation standards and practices.
• Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Works on diverse projects across several different service areas.
• May support our ongoing planning initiatives in the energy and linear infrastructure space.
• Cross-collaborate in a team environment.

Qualifications :

Why Join B&A Studios

B&A Studios is one of Western Canadas leading  planning design and engagement consultancies now part of the  CIMA family  - one of Canadas largest privately-owned engineering and consulting firms. Together we offer an unmatched multidisciplinary platform that connects  urban design planning engineering and engagement  under one collaborative network.

Joining our team means :

Additional Information :

At CIMA we recognize the richness and diversity of each individuals experience. Compensation for this role is therefore based on the candidates experience skills and qualifications while maintaining internal equity. The level and associated salary may vary depending on the candidates profile.

CIMA uses an applicant tracking system that includes an automated match score feature. However this score is not used to screen assess or select applicants. All hiring decisions are made through human review.

Ethics and integrity are fundamental values at CIMA. That is why we are committed to ensuring equal access to resources and opportunities for candidates regardless of their identity (race ethnicity colour religion gender age disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression socio-economic status or background etc.).

In keeping with the principles of employment equity we encourage all applications including but not limited to those from women Indigenous people people with disabilities and visible minorities. We also encourage candidates to complete the self-identification form when applying for employment.

Accommodations are available on request. Your Business Partner will process your request.

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Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Business Development,ArcGIS,GIS,Bluebeam,Transportation Planning,Microsoft Powerpoint,Research Experience,Project Management,Strategic Planning,Autocad,Economic Development,Urban Planning

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1