"Campus Facilities Planner Senior"

Job Details

Job Title: Campus Facilities Planner Senior

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Job ID: 290428

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech: Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values: Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do: 1. Students are our top priority. 2. We strive for excellence. 3. We thrive on diversity. 4. We celebrate collaboration. 5. We champion innovation. 6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression. 7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community. 8. We act ethically. 9. We are responsible stewards.

Job Summary

Provide strategic oversight of space resources, analyze and ensure optimal space utilization at institutional and departmental levels, and provide space planning leadership and facilitation for the Institute. Specific responsibility for Sector Plan review and/or Infrastructure Master Plan refinements/refreshments. Responsible for strategic planning for new and existing projects, communicating with campus and administrative unit personnel on current/potential projects, coordinating with Facilities Design & Construction to provide information on projects, technical report writing, project budgeting and contract negotiation. Responsibilities may include preparation of analyses, assisting in implementing ADA Transition Plan, and participation in environmental safety compliance or sustainability discussions. Interact on a regular basis with: Leadership and management in Administration and Finance (A&F), CPSM, Facilities, academic/research unit directors, other GT and community organizations, faculty, staff, students, and outside professional consultants. Periodically interact with the Executive Leadership. This position typically will advise and counsel: Leadership and management in A&F and CPSM. This position will supervise: May supervise graduate student and student workers on a project-specific basis.

Responsibilities

• Develop campus space plans, topical plans and/or promote and refine campus infrastructure or capital improvement plans, in coordination with stakeholders.
• Lead swing space / backfill conversations related to capital projects.
• Analyze space data, creating visualizations and analyses for portfolio partners and campus leadership as needed to support decision-making, investment prioritization, or trend analysis.
• Develop pre-programming documents and information for decision-making suggestions to internal clients. Develop conceptual programmatic requirements for proposed design and construction initiatives.
• Summarize complex planning and programmatic issues into simple short communiques intended for non-planning audiences.
• Review and analyze technical plans and specification of projects for conformance and integration with capital improvement plan, classroom and general use refreshment master plans, and infrastructure plans. Ensure integrated review of multiple projects impacting contiguous areas.
• Coordinate with Event Management staff to conduct annual summer non-academic event space assignment, assisting with development of multi-year space strategies for regular users.
• Assist private consultants and Facilities project managers on potential space-related initiatives. Participate on on-going construction-related update and status meetings. Represent the Institute in community and governmental organizations as requested.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Business, Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Other Required Qualifications: Overnight travel required for project delivery; flexibility in on-site daily service delivery hours.

Required Experience: Seven years of job related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications: Ability to give presentations as requested and participate in quarterly meetings of the Planning & Design Commission. Experience with AutoCad, Revit, SketchUp, BIM, GIS, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, Word, Excel or other applicable software packages. Proven track record leading planning initiatives, particularly in the higher education sector. Fluency in interior design and/or space analysis / planning.

Preferred Educational Qualifications: Master's Degree in planning, urban planning/design, or related field.

Preferred Experience: Ten years of job related experience.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Skills: Working knowledge of land planning, urban planning and design, campus planning, environmental sciences with a broad base of interest and understanding the multi-faceted aspects of sustainability. Ability to represent programmatic spatial intent graphically. Ability to gather and analyze data and communicate the impact of such data. Ability to work successfully in a collaborative team environment, excellent listening skills, effective verbal and written communications skills, ability to graphically represent programmatic spatial intent; ability to understand, communicate and interpret Georgia Tech's strategic goals and aspirations internally and to outside consultants in compliance with the overall campus master plan.

Equal Employment Opportunity: The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all.

Salary Range: $71,813.00 - $97,665.00. Salary will commensurate with experience and education. Location: Atlanta, GA.