Strategic Space Planner

This position provides strategic space planning support for NREL existing sites, facilities, and infrastructure to meet mission needs, working with organizational leaders and key partners to understand space requirements, anticipate constraints, and develop projections.

Job Duties:

* Develop, document, and review functional requirements with customers to facilitate space programming and develop space plans for high security and specialty space types.

* Steward the development and execution of integrated strategic plans and investment strategies for the Laboratories facility footprint, including consideration of major moves, renovations, co-location, consolidation, leasing, and new construction activities.

* Develop and maintain Lab-level data analyses and strategic performance metrics for optimizing utilization and continuous balancing of facilities space assets.

* Collaborate with other Strategic Planners to supervise and align footprint management strategies, plans with mission priorities, and corporate long-range development plans.

* Partner with Facilities Projects and Operations Teams to implement space strategies, plans and projects to ensure corporate space guidelines, policies and procedures are in alignment with the Lab-level footprint management strategies.

* Organize large sets of data and translate those into practical metrics and graphics to aid in decision making.

Qualifications:

Education/Experience - Relevant Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Urban / Regional Planning, Engineering, Project Management, Economics, or Human Factors plus five (5) or more years of relevant experience; or Master's Degree in Architecture, Urban / Regional Planning, Engineering, Project Management, Economics, or Human Factors plus one (1) or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience.

Licenses & Certifications - Registration as a licensed architect or similar relevant certifications desired.

Clearance - Must be able to obtain NREL site security access.

Other - Must pass background, reference, and drug screen.