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

Senior Planner
(Northville · Detroit · Grand Rapids · 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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Associate Planner

Full-Time

McKenna’s Associate 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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Building Official / Building Inspector

Part-Time

McKenna Building Officials and Inspectors 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

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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Graphic Designer

Full-Time

McKenna is seeking a talented Graphic Designer to join our team. As our Graphic Designer, you will be joining a team responsible for creating visually appealing designs for a variety of projects from project branding to public engagement materials to presentations to multipage documents (to name a few). The ideal candidate is passionate about design, a whiz with Adobe Creative Suite, has a trained eye for detail, is an organized multi-tasker, thrives in a fast-paced environment, is a team player, and has a go-getter, roll up your sleeves attitude with a good sense of humor!!

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Permit Technician

Part-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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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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Scheduler/Dispatcher (remote)

Full-Time

McKenna is seeking an experienced scheduler to join our team of dedicated planning, design and building professionals who are in the business of making hometowns home. For over forty years, we have partnered with municipal leaders throughout southeastern Michigan to develop and maintain communities for real life.

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Code Enforcement Officer/Rental Inspector
(Flint)

Full-Time

McKenna team-members, including Code Enforcement Officers/Rental 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. The Code Enforcement Officer/Rental Inspector is committed to ensuring project success, from providing thorough, consistent, and helpful plan review and inspection services that maintain health and safety, are development friendly, focused on customer service, and are lean and efficient.

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