Space Planner / Architect / Furniture Specialist (52600)
Summary
Senior space planning and facilities role supporting NIH's Rockville campus: the hire develops space allocation plans, CAD floor plans and test fits, runs occupancy/utilization studies, and manages furniture standards, specifications, budgets and procurement, reconciling space and asset records in ARCHIBUS.
Position Objective: Provide senior space planning, workplace strategy, interior design, furniture, CAD, utilization, and facility-planning expertise.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop space allocation plans for offices, laboratories, clinical, technology, and support spaces and perform utilization reviews, occupancy studies, and feasibility analyses.
- Develop conceptual, preliminary, and final alternatives and provide at least three solutions for architectural, engineering, or interior-related work products when directed.
- Prepare and update CAD floor plans, blocking and stacking plans, test fits, furniture layouts, space allocations, and as-built documentation; validate field conditions.
- Coordinate with architects, engineers, project managers, facility personnel, IT, AV, MEP, GSA, subcontractors, manufacturers, and vendors.
- Develop furniture standards, specifications, Bills of Materials, budgets, procurement and installation plans, inventories, reuse strategies, and lifecycle recommendations.
- Support moves, occupancy, workplace transitions, stakeholder engagement, schedules, and operational-impact mitigation.
- Prepare executive presentations and strategic recommendations and reconcile space, furniture, drawing, occupancy, and asset records with ARCHIBUS.
- Contribute to space-planning studies, relocation plans, furniture layouts, CAD drawings, reports, briefings, and closeout products.