Federal Master Planner

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Company : B&V Special Projects Corp.

Req Id : 117807

Opportunity Type : Staff

Relocation eligible : No

Full time/Part time : Full-Time

Project Only Hire : No

Visa Sponsorship Available: No

Why Black & Veatch?

At Black & Veatch, you’ll be part of work that matters—designing, creating, and building the infrastructure communities rely on every day, from concept through execution.

We care about how the work gets done as much as what we build. Safety is built into every decision, and people look out for each other—speaking up, collaborating, and doing the right thing because it affects real lives.

You’ll work alongside teams solving complex challenges and turning ideas into solutions that perform in the real world—gaining hands-on experience across projects, technologies, and disciplines.

Ownership shows up in how we work. We take responsibility for outcomes, follow through on commitments, and take pride in what we deliver. As a 100% employee-owned company, employees share in the long-term success we build together.

With flexible ways of working and meaningful development opportunities, you’ll build a career you can be proud to stand behind.

The Opportunity

In this role you will have the responsibility to:

- Function as a technical specialist or in a lead master planning role.

- With minimal supervision, apply advanced planning techniques and analyses for problems and methods.

- Expand knowledge and skill set in area of discipline.

- May start to expand knowledge in other disciplines and/or functional areas.

- Support and/or lead consultant role on military or civil master planning assignments such as Planning Studies, Vision Plans, Comprehensive/ Master Plans, Requirements Analyses, Area Development Plans, Space Optimization Studies, Environmental Plans, Recreation Plans, Economic and Physical analyses, Planning workshops, and development activities on military, federal agency and commercial projects worldwide.

The Team

Black & Veatch Operations develops, deploys, and maintains global resources and capabilities that guide execution and process excellence across the organization. The foundation of Black & Veatch Operations provides the ability to move where your skills are needed and allows for a collaborative and innovative culture offering greater challenges and career development opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

- Leading small production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the technical lead for a project.

- Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects.

- Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on moderately complex projects and may determine the key clients in some instances.

- Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on projects.

- Prepares a variety of complex planning deliverables, including report narratives and graphics/mapping for larger or multiple projects.

- Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements.

- May offer other services to the clients.

- Facilitation and active participation in planning charrettes, while working with a diverse multi-disciplinary team.

- Demonstrate the ability to write, present planning concepts to large audiences, and lead stakeholders in planning activities.

Additional Responsibilities:

- Provides guidance and direction on department planning guides, standards, systems, applicable codes and Black and Veatch policies.

- Assists in developing, maintaining and updating planning standards.

- Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines.

- Independently applies knowledge and complies with Black and Veatch quality program relative to assigned tasks.

- Provides related guidance and direction to others.

- Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts.

- Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection

- Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for planning work.

- Independently applies advanced techniques and analysis to problems and methods.

- Reviews lower-level planning work or assignments

- Provides support to business development or pursuit activities.

- Serves as a technical specialist and has knowledge and skills to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a particular practice area.

- Supports multiple projects on complex technical challenges.

- Develops and applies advanced concepts and approaches to unique planning problems.

- May participate in career planning, and learning and development.

- Administrative responsibilities may include office administration.

- Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are effectively implemented and communicated for workgroup.

- Ensures adherence to corporate and division programs.

Preferred Qualifications

- Proficient in the following, or comparable:

Adobe Creative Suite (Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)

- AutoCAD

- GIS, Esri ArcMap

- Google Earth Professional

- Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word)

- SketchUp

- Certified Planner (AICP) or Registered Landscape Architect (RLA)

- Experience with projects for the Federal Government including knowledge of UFS 2-100-01, Installation Master Planning and other related UFCs

- Requirements Analysis specialty; experience with a specific branch of the military or federal government

- Ability to facilitate stakeholder groups during workshops and charrettes (comfortable with public speaking)

- Strong manual and electronic graphic design skills

- Building effective teams

- Advanced knowledge of federal planning principles and applicable planning guides and standards

- Intermediate knowledge of other disciplines

- Advanced ability to interpret planning deliverable content as assigned

- Intermediate industry knowledge and technology trends

- Intermediate knowledge of technical aspects of the proposal process

- Intermediate knowledge of management techniques and administrative practices

- Ability to travel internationally as project assignments require

Minimum Qualifications

- Requires a bachelor's degree in planning, landscape architecture, architecture, or related field from a recognized accredited program.

- 5-10 years related work experience.

- All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

- Assigned to projects for U.S. Government Agency/Department clients, candidate must be a U.S. Citizen.

- Eligible for U.S. Security Clearance.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

- Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

Competencies

Collaborates Communicates effectively Courage Directs work Instills trust Interpersonal Skills Organizational savvy Customer focus Decision quality
## Salary Plan

ENS: Eng & Technical Specialties
## Job Grade

016
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