Higher Education Campus Planner - Colliers Engineering & Design

Bergmann, an affiliate of Colliers Engineering & Design, is looking for an experienced campus planner to join our Mid-Atlantic & Northeast Buildings team.

This individual may work on public/private higher education, program work, and/or multi-use projects.

• Evaluate higher education facilities, open space, and infrastructure.
• Evaluate campus condition, capacity, utilization, usage patterns, and institutional metrics.
• Integrate campus data, physical condition analysis, and recommendations with institutional strategic planning and key performance indicators.
• Merge cross-disciplinary data and principles to advance planning and design of complex projects
• Conduct research and collect data, identify relevant precedents, and develop analysis diagrams
• Synthesize quantitative and qualitative information to generate flexible implementation and capital planning strategies
• Organize and manage campus and community engagement exercises
• Generate planning concepts, rendered plans, and create graphics
• Generate planning reports that meet client needs regarding content, schedule, and budget
• Communicating with clients and building/maintaining those relationships
• Problem-solving for design solutions
• Surveying onsite work at client facilities

Who We're Looking For: All candidates for this position should be licensed in the US in planning, architecture, and/or landscape architecture. The ideal candidate has a bachelor’s degree in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, or urban design, and has 10+ years' experience leading comprehensive planning projects for colleges and universities. All candidates should be fluent in Revit, AutoCAD, and GIS.

• Understanding of Higher Education academic organizational structures, workflow, and operating procedures
• Experience with campus-scale assessment, analytics, diagramming, conceptualization, prioritization, and phasing.
• Experience with Higher Education facility programming, design, and project development
• Experience with user survey methodology
• Able to develop space reallocation strategies
• Experience with higher education issues, trends, and facilities
• Able to identify evolving best practices, policies, and procedures
• Understanding of planning and urban design, building typologies, transportation, land development planning, zoning codes, phasing considerations, and implementation techniques
• Able to translate data, engagement, assessment, and concepts into compelling narratives
• Able to develop short and long-term campus planning goals through analysis
• Able to work closely with others
• Strong communication skills
• Able to build relationships and communicate at every level of a project
• Able to work independently with minimal instruction
• Client facing experience
• Experience with leading, coaching, and mentoring junior staff
• Proficient/Experienced with Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, GIS, and Adobe Creative Suite

At Bergmann, an affiliate of Colliers Engineering & Design, our people are our most important resource. That’s why we are committed to providing all our employees with a safe, comfortable work environment, potential for career advancement, and the ability to impact society through their projects as well as Company sponsored activities.

This dedication begins with supporting a work life balance through a generous compensation package that includes: company paid medical, dental, and vision coverage; paid pregnancy disability leave; short- and long-term disability insurance; life insurance; a company-matched 401(k)/Roth; paid time off that includes parental and military leave; employee referral and professional license bonuses and a straight time policy that compensates exempt employees for billable hours worked in excess of 40 billable hours within a work week.

We have also created an internal culture that provides the resources and technology needed to encourage personal and professional growth opportunities through reimbursement for education; a free in-house resource for hundreds of educational and self-enrichment courses; mentorship program; wellness program; Women’s Organization and ongoing philanthropic opportunities.

Apply today to learn how you can join our team of professionals, so we can help you Accelerate Your Success!