Monroe County Roads is hiring: Planner in Marathon

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.**Compensation:**$64,689.49 - $103,503.19**Job Description:**The primary function of this position is to provide planning services, including reviewing proposed development permits to ensure compliance with the Land Development Regulations and Comprehensive Plan Policies, as well as other applicable community master plans and regulatory documents. The Planner represents the Planning & Environmental Resources department to the public in a professional manner and provides accurate guidance and assistance with planning procedures, policies, and land development regulations.**ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS*** Serves as a member of the planning team, providing planning services and technical assistance to the community.* Explains planning-related policies and regulations to the public; provides customer service to residents, developers, and applicants by offering information, guidance, and assistance.* Reviews proposed development projects, plans, and permit applications to ensure consistency with the Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations, verifies compliance with quality design and site-planning standards, and protects community character; coordinates with other disciplines, including environmental resources, building, and fire.* Prepares staff reports, conducts analyses, and presents recommendations on development proposals in accordance with the County Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations to decision-making bodies at public hearings.* Drafts final resolutions and development orders for signature by the Planning Director, Planning Commission, and Board of County Commissioners.* Meets with developers, property owners, and the general public regarding zoning issues and the development potential of specific properties.* Serves as a point of contact for Rate of Growth Ordinances (ROGOs), Non-Residential Rate of Growth Ordinances (NROGOs), and Administrative Relief applications.* Explains related processes, verifies application completeness, and assists applicants with submittals for ROGOs, NROGOs, and Administrative Relief.* Reviews applications for Administrative Variances, ROGO Exemptions, Pre-Application Conferences, Home Occupation Permits, Letter of Development Rights Determinations (LDRDs), and Letters of Understanding.* Drafts ROGO exemption letters, LDRDs, and Letters of Understanding.* Confirms all documentation is complete—including applications, deed restrictions, lot aggregations, and land dedications—before issuance of allocations.* Accepts and applies fees associated with planning and development applications.* Formulates professional policy recommendations regarding proposed zoning and land use map changes.* Staffs and facilitates advisory boards, committee meetings, and public workshops.* Provides expert testimony and participates in cross-examination at quasi-judicial hearings.* Drafts ordinance language and guides proposals through administrative and public review processes.* Attends community and stakeholder meetings on planning-related issues.* Prepares plans and plan elements, including policies for Comprehensive Plans, zoning ordinances, redevelopment initiatives, master plans, and strategic plans.* Provides technical assistance and planning support for community projects.* Collects, analyzes, and updates baseline county statistical data, and maintains regional datasets (including demographics, transportation, and GIS information) for use by communities and County departments.* Performs other related job duties as assigned.* In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.**QUALIFICATIONS****Education and Experience:**Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning or a related field, and one (1) year minimum of prior related work experience are required. GIS and plan review experience are required to effectively perform planning responsibilities.**Special Qualifications:**None.**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:*** Ability to organize work around broad organizational goals and processes.* Ability to perform professional-level work dealing with data, people, and technology that relates to administrative, technical, scientific, engineering, accounting, legal, or managerial skills.* Ability to follow basic guidelines for operational activities; ability to make decisions that govern the activities and behaviors of staff members.* Ability to work with more than ten coworkers who mostly engage in the same activities.**PHYSICAL DEMANDS**The work is light and requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:* Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.* Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.* Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.* Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.* Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.* Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.* Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.* Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.* Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.* Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.* Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.**WORK ENVIRONMENT**Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity and responsiveness to changing goals, priorities, and needs.***Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time.*** ***This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.*****Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.***Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional,* género, *religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.***Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.** *Preferencia* *de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.*
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