Job Description

Make Cologne a better place to live!
At the Office for Landscape Conservation and Green Spaces we are looking for an engineer (m/f/d) for the field of basic and landscape planning with immediate effect.



The Office for Landscape Conservation and Green Spaces deals with all planning tasks relating to urban green spaces. As part of the team, you will be involved in urban land-use planning and building permits with regard to green planning issues, design compensatory measures, develop new parks and green spaces and secure the green infrastructure.

We protect and develop Cologne's open spaces, integrate ecological measures and update Cologne's landscape plans for this purpose.



YOUR FUTURE TASKS:

You...

- supervise specialist offices in the development of green infrastructure plans and are generally responsible for the technical support of planning offices

- comment on development plans and project and development plans as the lower nature conservation authority in urban land-use planning procedures

- prepare statements on preliminary building inquiries and building applications, taking into account the green stipulations from development plans and formulate conditions and notes on tree protection and the safeguarding of green and open spaces

- process applications for permission to fell municipal trees

- advise architects and citizens in the planning permission process

- answer inquiries and prepare statements for municipal committees, municipal departments and citizens

- supervise competitions and workshops



YOUR PROFILE:

You have a degree (at least a university of applied sciences diploma or bachelor's degree) in landscape conservation, landscaping and green space management, landscape ecology or a comparable field of study



In addition, the following is important to us:

You...



- already have knowledge and experience in the field of urban land-use planning and building permits

- have knowledge of the application of legal principles in urban land-use planning and building permit procedures

- have a willingness to learn and perform as well as customer-oriented thinking and acting

- act in a goal-oriented manner, are flexible and also take on appointments outside normal working hours

- are a communicative and argumentative personality with a confident manner

- have gender competence and a belief in diversity



WE OFFER YOU:

- not only a financially secure job with all the benefits of the public sector, but also a regulated working week of 39 hours for employees. Employment is possible on a part-time and full-time basis.

- A varied, future-oriented job for the citizens of our city

- Work-life balance thanks to flexible working hours and home office options

- Structured onboarding as well as career and further training opportunities

- 30 days' annual leave (plus time off on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and Shrove Monday) and a company sports club

- Regular pay rises, an annual special payment, an annual performance-related payment and an attractive company pension



The position is valued according to pay group 11 of the collective agreement for the public sector (TVöD)
.
The salary range in pay group 11 (TVöD-VKA) is between € 4,032.38 (experience level 1) and € 5,975.19 (experience level 6).

You can find a current pay table, for example, at https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tvoed/vka

Your professional experience will be taken into account when assigning you to the experience level within the pay group, insofar as this is possible under collective bargaining law.



Would you like to find out more about the benefits of working for the City of Cologne?

You can find more reasons that speak for us as an employer at: http://www.stadt-koeln.de/benefits



Questions about the procedure will be answered by:

Ms. Kwiek Phone 0221 221-34061

Questions about the area of responsibility will be answered by:

Mr. Hölzer, telephone 0221 221-26036, Mr. Faber, telephone 0221 221-23673



YOUR APPLICATION:

If you also want to make Cologne a better place to live, please apply as follows, quoting the reference number 1382/24-VeKw by 16.01.2025 at the latest:



City of Cologne - The Lord Mayor

Personnel and Administration Management

Applicant Center (114/11)

Willy-Brandt-Platz 2

50679 Cologne



or preferred:



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We actively promote gender equality and the diversity of all people in the administration.We therefore welcome applications from people of color, people of all nationalities, religions and world views, sexual orientations and gender identities, all age groups and people with disabilities. We also welcome applications from people with a family history of migration, especially a history of flight.The City of Cologne has been awarded the TOTAL E-QUALITY - Commitment to Equal Opportunities for Women and Men award as well as the additional DIVERSITY award and the audit berufundfamilie - Compatibility of Work and Family certificate.

In the STEM (mathematics, information technology, natural sciences, technology) professional field, women are expressly addressed and encouraged to apply.

We offer flexible working hours and forms of work, which can also be combined with mobile working. These are geared towards different lifestyles and personal and work-related concerns.

As a public employer, we support the goal of integrating disabled, severely disabled and equivalent people into working life with our inclusion agreement. Severely disabled and equivalent applicants are given special consideration if they are equally qualified.

Contact Details

Stadt Köln
Frau Kwiek

Willy-Brandt-Platz
50679  Köln
Deutschland

0221 221-34061

email@rheinsatz.de
www.stadt-koeln.de

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