Planner - City of Mississauga, Mississauga

The opportunity

As the City of Mississauga intensifies, planning for, delivering parkland, and protecting City parkland assets becomes increasingly challenging and essential as we strive to create healthy complete communities. This permanent administration position offers an excellent opportunity for professionals seeking City of Mississauga jobs to contribute to urban development and public space preservation.

The team

The Parks Assets, Urban Design team consists of both planners and landscape architects who work together to plan parks, expand the City's parkland and greenlands, protect park assets, and comment on development applications and City parkland matters. Operating within the Planning and Building Department, this group drives crucial municipal initiatives across Mississauga.

Responsibilities

Reporting to the Manager of Urban Design, the successful candidate will handle a variety of development and planning duties:

• Prepare, review and manage comments on all types of Development Applications, Environmental Assessments, Realty Requests and associated Agreements related to Parkland and Greenlands, including Parkland Cash-in-lieu determinations on behalf of Parks Assets, Urban Design
• Coordination, review, and preparation of comments related to license and easement agreements, land acquisition and surplus declarations that impact City owned parkland and greenland
• Liaises and meets with public agencies and departments, professionals, consultants, elected officials, staff, residents and special interest groups as required with respect to the projects and the future development of parks and recreational facilities
• Attend and lead public meetings for presentation as well as provides professional advice and input to the public, Council and other professionals
• Research and prepare reports to Committees and Council
• Attend and provide evidence at Ontario Land Tribunal hearings
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Requirements

To qualify for these City of Mississauga careers, applicants must meet the following educational, professional, and practical criteria:

• Graduate from a recognized university in Planning or related discipline with a minimum of 5 years of experience in development planning
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of municipal land development processes including subdivision, rezoning and site plan applications as well as servicing and development agreements
• Ability to liaise with elected officials, other City Departments, federal & provincial authorities, conservation & regional authorities, and other outside agencies as required
• Demonstrated project management and time management skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to provide detailed analysis of development applications and to negotiate and advocate for Parks Assets, Urban Design interests
• Ability to work well in a team environment and independently
• Knowledge of related computer applications required including Microsoft Suite software and ePlans
• Eligibility for membership in the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and Canadian Institute of Planners is required
• Must have ability to travel to sites and provide own transportation and be comfortable working flexible hours