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Job Description
Job Summary
Join our team as a Senior Planner and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our city! This full-time position offers the opportunity to lead high-level planning and project management efforts within the Planning and Development Department. You'll contribute to long-range and current planning initiatives, review development proposals, and implement comprehensive and area plans that drive sustainable growth and vibrant communities. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!
Essential Job Functions
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
This information is intended to be descriptive of the key responsibilities of the position. The following examples do not identify all duties performed by any single incumbent.
Current Planning- Communicates with the public, developers, and contractors over the phone, via email, or at the front counter.
- Reviews and administrates the land development process by researching unified development code, administering, and specifying required procedures and processes for zoning changes, specific use permits, platting cases.
- Reviews and prepares staff reports and recommendations by researching past cases, researching the UDC, reviewing and discussing with other departmental staff, presenting information to the applicant, and preparing a final draft of reports and ordinances to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
- Assists other team members in the division and department as needed.
Long Range Planning- Communicates with the public, developers, and contractors by attending public hearings; and discussing projects over the phone.
- Writes various reports by responding to external requests for information; and writing staff reports.
- Develops planning studies and reports in support of new and updated plans, programs, and regulations.
- Acts as a liaison between community groups, government agencies, developers, and elected officials in developing neighborhood plans.
- Provides information to the public regarding the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan and area plans.
- Regular and consistent attendance and punctuality for the assigned work hours is essential.
Minimum Qualifications
Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:- Education: Work requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field. Knowledge is normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Experience: Over two years and including three years of directly related experience.
- Licenses: Valid Texas Class C Driver's License
- Certifications Required: AICP preferred.
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 1/31/2025 5:00 PM Central -
Special Instructions
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
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