Temporary Park Planner
City of Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
USD 23.6-23.6 / hour
Posted on Sep 13, 2025
Hourly Rate: $23.60
Schedule: 40 hours/week, 10-month Duration
Nature of Work:
This is an entry-level position for professional park planning work. Performs work that involves construction plans, investigations, surveys, or structures with minimal feature complexity using standard engineering principles and methods within landscape architecture design and construction contract administration. Completes projects with a small or limited scope, or assists other landscape architects on projects of larger more complex scope. Performs site visits to evaluate existing conditions and analyze suitability of site for improvements. Attends construction progress meetings and performs administration and oversight of construction projects. Performs specific portions of a broader assignment under the direction of management staff. Due to nature of work, there is limited exercise of judgment on details of work. May be required to adjust and correlate data; recognize discrepancies in study results, construction plans, and project specifications; follow operations through a series of related, detailed steps or processes. This position may also assist with field surveying, drafting and construction inspection.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in landscape architecture, architecture, civil engineering, or environmental design.
- Must have a valid driver’s license.
- The City of Ann Arbor, at its discretion, will consider an alternative combination of education and experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of experience in landscape architecture/planning
- Knowledge of landscape architecture principles, contraction administration, and construction administration.
- Experience in AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suites, ArcGIS
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
Positions in this class typically require: stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, driving, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.
Duties entail the ability to work at a computer keyboard and on the telephone for extended periods of time. Operating standard office equipment requiring continuous or repetitive hand/arm movements.
Move and lift objects up to 20 lbs. such as mail, files and supplies.