St. Lawrence County Government

Position Advertisement Form

St. Lawrence County Planning Office is in search of:

Planner II

Salary: $54,249 with excellent benefits as described below

Benefits: Health Insurance or buy out, dental, vision, life insurance, NYS retirement, Public Service Loan

Forgiveness eligibility, etc. as well as generous personal, vacation, sick and compensatory time.

Duties of the position: This is professional planning work involving responsibility for the performance of a variety

of municipal, regional, or community planning assignments. The incumbent is either responsible for specific phases

of advanced planning projects or may be in charge of a major phase of a moderately complex study. This class

differs from that of Planner by virtue of the performance of projects of greater scope and difficulty and greater

independence of action in planning and carrying out assignments. The work is performed under the general

supervision of the Director of Planning. A Senior Planner may act as a lead worker over lower level technical and

clerical staff or specific projects, but does not exercise formal supervision. The incumbent does related work as

required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Either:

(A) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with a
Master’s degree in planning, engineering, urban geography; landscape architecture, public administration,

environmental studies or a related field and two (2) years of experience in municipal, community or

regional planning; OR

(B) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with a
Bachelor’s degree in planning, engineering, urban geography, landscape architecture, public

administration, environmental studies or related field and three (3) years of experience in municipal,

community or regional planning.

Additional Employment Information: This is a provisional appointment. The successful applicant will need

to take a civil service examination and score within the top three interested candidates in order to be

permanently appointed.

Applications accepted until the position is filled. Send application to:

St. Lawrence County Human Resources Office

48 Court Street

Canton, NY 13617

Applications can be obtained from the St. Lawrence County’s website,

https://stlawco.org/Departments/HumanResources or by contacting Human Resources

(315)379-2210.

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Posted: 08/03/2022