Senior Land Use Specialist

SALARY RANGE

$26.69 - $45.09

WORK ASSIGNMENT DETAILS

Waukesha County Parks and Land Use Department's Planning and Zoning Division is seeking a qualified individual to fill the position of Senior Land Use Specialist. As a Senior Land Use Specialist your work will involve the analysis of subdivision plats and conditional use, variance and rezoning applications.  This position also reviews zoning permit applications, provides community planning assistance and provides technical information to the public on zoning, planning, and land division matters.

The successful candidate will possess a bachelor's degree from a recognized college or university in planning, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, geography, or closely related field AND two (2) years of responsible work experience in land use planning, zoning, and land division ordinance enforcement or administration or a closely related field.

Note: A master's degree in an area listed above may be substituted for one-year of the work experience requirement.

The 2025 starting salary range for the Senior Land Use Specialist is $70,866 to $82,326 (dependent upon qualifications; full range extends to $93,787).

A resume is required in addition to your fully completed application form.

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The successful candidate will be subject to a work/education/certification reference(s) verification and a criminal background and driver's license check.

CLASSIFICATION SPECIFICATION

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Minimum Training & Experience Requirements - Senior Land Use Specialist
1.    Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in planning, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, geography, or closely related field.
2.    Two years of responsible work experience in land use planning, zoning, and land division ordinance enforcement or administration or a closely related field. 
3.    A master’s degree in an area listed above may be substituted for one-year of the work experience requirement.  

This position is authorized as a Senior Planner but we are looking to underfill it with a Senior Land Use Specialist (minimum training and experience requirements listed above). We may also double -underfill to Land Use Specialist.

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Minimum Training & Experience Requirements - Land Use Specialist

1. Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in planning, architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, geography, or closely related field.

The 2025 starting salary range for the Land Use Specialist is $55,515 to $64,480 (dependent upon qualifications; full range extends to $73,445).

Waukesha County provides a comprehensive compensation and benefits package including excellent health/dental/vision, life insurance, generous paid time off (vacation, 10 holidays, 3 floating holidays, ample accrued sick time that rolls over each year), an exceptional pension plan with employer match and lifetime retirement payment plus an optional tax advantaged 457 retirement savings plan. Amongst many other benefits, employees are recognized and valued through a pay for performance system. Successful candidates will be eligible for performance-based merit increases and non-base performance awards.

Employee well-being is promoted through a balanced work-life culture and through an exceptional employee wellness program that offers a variety of programs and tools to help promote an employee's wellness and health, including an on-site health & wellness clinic.

About Us:
Waukesha County prides itself on operating in a business-like manner and is recognized as a leader delivering high quality services with competence and skill. With our vision of "Leading the Way", we value teamwork and collaboration, ethics and diversity, communication, efficiency and cost savings, innovation, and the wellbeing of our staff and the citizens we serve. Employees are provided professional development opportunities and encouragement to learn and practice continuous improvement and LEAN principles as we regularly ask ourselves "Is there a better way?"