Careers

Are you interested in joining our team?

We are always looking for passionate, talented, tenacious, and creative planners, designers, and building professionals who want to see their work make very real differences in the communities they serve. Our purposeful work impacts people by influencing the state of the environment; ultimately, we take pride in helping improve quality of life in our great Midwestern communities. If you’re ready to further your career with our team of caring, talented individuals, check out our openings below.

OPEN POSITIONS

Principal Planner

Full-Time

McKenna’s Principal Planners are passionate, talented, and creative professionals who want to make a difference and see their work efforts result in tangible, inspirational outcomes. Our work is purposeful and impacts people by influencing the state of the environment; ultimately, we take pride in helping to improve quality of life in our great Midwestern communities. McKenna’s team members enjoy the benefits of our practice, from the diversity of projects in a diverse range of communities, to our fast-paced, creative, and collaborative team culture.

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Senior Planner
(Northville · Detroit · Columbus, OH)

Full-Time

Join the talented team at McKenna. McKenna’s planning, design, and building professionals help municipal leaders develop and maintain communities for real life. From downtowns, neighborhood parks, and storefronts, to parking spots, coffee shops, and farmers’ markets, we want your community to thrive. McKenna provides planning, zoning, building, landscape architecture, community and economic development, and urban design assistance to cities, villages, townships, counties, and regional agencies, as well as select private clients, based on skilled and effective public engagement.

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Urban Planning Intern

Full-Time

McKenna’s Interns are passionate, talented, and creative students who want to make a difference and see their work efforts result in tangible, inspirational outcomes. Our work is purposeful and im-pacts people by influencing the state of the environment; ultimately, we take pride in helping to im-prove quality of life in our great Midwestern communities. McKenna’s team members enjoy the bene-fits of our practice, from the diversity of projects in a diverse range of communities, to our fast-paced, creative, and collaborative team culture. Our Intern will work closely with the team of McKenna planners to develop and provide on-time, on-budget planning and design work that is of the highest technical and creative quality.

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Building Official (Detroit, Lansing)

Full-Time

McKenna Building Officials are problem-solving professionals who collaborate with team members and outside partners. They thrive on variety, have a strong background in construction, are well-versed in area building codes and have experience interpreting them.

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Mechanical Inspector (Detroit, Lansing)

Full-Time

McKenna team members, including Mechanical Inspectors, inspire those around them by displaying their positive individual approaches to solving difficult problems. Our Building Professionals effectively communicate expectations to McKenna team members with whom they collaborate, as well as outside partners on our multi-firm efforts.

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Permit Technician (Detroit, Lansing)

Full-Time

McKenna's dedicated planning, design and building professionals are in the business of making hometowns home. For over forty years, we have partnered with municipal leaders to develop and maintain communities for real life. McKenna's services include building department staffing, plan review, code inspection and code enforcement as well as master planning, economic development, zoning and urban design. We are looking for rock star candidates with great customer service experience and skills. If this sounds like you, we need to talk.

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