Join Pland Collaborative, New Mexico's premier Landscape Architecture and Planning firm! Formerly known as MRWM Landscape Architects, we specialize in public sector work that enhances the overall quality of life. Our planning group primarily focuses on outdoor recreation, community redevelopment, resilience, and community engagement.

As pioneers in the desert Southwest, we blend traditional and innovative planning techniques for fun, effective, and resilient project outcomes. With over 50 years of experience and nearly 5,000 successful projects under our belt, we've become leaders in reshaping communities for the better.

If you're a mid-level or senior planner passionate about innovative planning solutions and making a real difference, we want you on our team. Join us in our mission to transform communities into vibrant, resilient, and culturally rich environments. Let's create something extraordinary together!

We seek a qualified and motivated applicant for a full-time senior Planner position. As a senior Planner, you will participate in and manage various local and regional planning and design activities. These include outdoor recreation, resiliency, and community redevelopment planning, signage design and site planning for multiple types of uses, and more. Outreach and stakeholder engagement initiatives will be part of most of our projects. In addition, the Planner will support our team and office with writing, research, graphic visualizations, and GIS.

Additional skills or experience in environmental planning, transportation planning, sustainability and resiliency planning, outdoor recreation, historic preservation, graphic design, and other innovative skills are a plus.

This is a project management level position and requires the ability to independently provide a full range of planning services on projects of all sizes. Typical work skills required include:

Requirements:

• Reliable, energetic, and self-motivated.
• Strong communication and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to take personal initiative.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Project management and task coordination with clients and other staff members.
• Comfortable participating in public engagement activities.
• Prepare planning documents and associated deliverables, including research, evaluation, design, and compilation of studies and other related documentation.
• Stakeholder engagement, meeting support, and facilitation.
• Quick learner.
• Knowledge of regulatory processes and standards.
• Working with other staff members in a team environment.
• Independently collaborate and communicate with clients and allied professionals.
• Proficiency with GIS, Adobe Creative Suite, and MS Office software.
• Desired: Proficiency with SketchUp, AutoCAD, and other design software.

Qualifications:

• Degree in urban, regional, or community planning (or similar) from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of five (5) years of professional experience.
• Desired: AICP certification.

Pland Collaborative provides competitive compensation and benefits and a fun and engaging work environment with flexible schedules. Located in Downtown Albuquerque, our studio is bright and open for collaboration and teamwork. We value hard work, but also like to play. Please send a resume and digital portfolio or relevant work samples to karndt@plandcollab.com

Thank you so much.

At Pland Collaborative we create spaces that capture the imagination and stimulate the senses. We design sites and communities for people of all ages, abilities, and interests to connect with nature, live, work, and play.  As a landscape architecture and planning firm in the Southwest, we consider both science and art to be our media and believe our built environment should be beautiful, thoughtful, innovative, and pragmatic.  We measure the success of our designs and strategies by their ability to solve the challenges of a community with simple and compelling solutions and strive to make projects elegant expressions of the cultures and ecosystems that compose them.  During 50 years of professional practice and the completion of nearly 5,000 projects, Pland has furthered the appreciation of landscape architecture and planning as a means of improving the quality of life in urban and rural settings throughout New Mexico and surrounding states.

We are seeking a licensed landscape architect with approximately 5 years of project management experience for our office in Albuquerque, NM.  Candidates must be creative, energetic, self-motivated, possess strong communication and critical thinking skills, as well as the ability to take personal initiative in their work environment.  Candidates must have a well-rounded skillset, enjoy working in a team setting, and the ability to guide support staff.  An undergraduate or graduate degree from an accredited landscape architecture program is required, as well as proficiency in AutoCAD, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, SketchUp, and MS Office software.

Our studio is bright and open for collaboration and teamwork.  We value hard work, but also like to play! We offer competitive compensation and benefits based on capabilities and experience.  Please submit a resume and digital portfolio or relevant work samples to rloftis@plandcollab.com.