Space Planner and Analyst at DLR Group in Charlotte, NC

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

We have an opening for a Space Planner and Analyst. We currently operate within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home. Considering this model, this role could be based in the following cities:

Dallas
Denver
Houston
Orlando
Phoenix
San Diego
Los Angeles
Charlotte
Other locations may be considered

Position Summary

If you are a collaborative planner with a strategic mindset, focused on the future of Higher Education facility space utilization and data, and enjoy an interdisciplinary approach to projects, this might be the position for you! DLR Group is seeking an individual to lead and grow our data-informed space planning processes for colleges and universities across the country. This is a national opportunity to work with all 27 of DLR Group’s offices within the United States. You will be part of our national Campus Planning Team, within our Higher Education Practice. Along with playing an integral role in our comprehensive campus and facility planning projects, you will have the support to participate in facility programming, digital tool development, research, and developing expanded services for space planning, analytics, policy, and management both nationally and with our international offices. This is an opportunity to grow space planning and programming practice within DLR Group.

What you will do:

Interact and coordinate with the national DLR Group Campus Planning Team, our institutional clients, and other firmwide planners to ensure the Group’s space analytics and planning are consistent with and support broader institutional and project goals and strategies.
Conduct space planning, programming, utilization, gap analysis and identify space usage patterns across the institution, academic divisions and departments.
Integrate space usage and capacity data with institutional key performance indicators.
Apply state, federal, and peer-based standards.
Integrate best practices, policies, and procedures.
Compile, cleanse, and aggregate information to generate actionable information and related performance indicators. Provide the foundation for campus planning scenarios, facility highest and best use, and implementation strategies.
Coordinate, collaborate, review and confirm information for required analytics, scenarios, and reports with the Provost’s office, Institutional Research, Deans and Department Chairs.
Develop and present findings to support the client and DLR Group project goals, objectives, budget and schedule.
Provide thought leadership to elevate the Campus Planning Team, our Higher Education Practice, and DLR Group as a whole. Conduct space planning research, gather data, and document trends, strengths, and weaknesses to effectively identify Team and Client needs and opportunities.
Develop space planning database and benchmarks

Required Qualifications:

Ability to work across multiple time zones with a national team and clients located from Eastern to Pacific time zones.
Ability to work independently and with others to achieve project budgets, schedules, and research.
Bachelor's Degree in Planning, Architecture, Engineering, Building Construction, Political Science or a related field.
Minimum 5 years of experience in Higher Education Facilities Space Planning.
Knowledge of best practices for facility space assessments, facilities management, space analytics, and academic and student life space programming.
Strong in Microsoft Office 365, PowerBI, Qualtrics, and Excel
General understanding of construction techniques and systems, to include facility programming and project development.

Preferred Qualifications:

Dual degree or multidisciplinary experience.
Master's Degree or comparable experience in Campus Planning, Facilities Planning, Facilities Management, Higher Education Management or related field.
Knowledge of space-related applicable federal, state, and peer standards.
Knowledge of Higher Ed academic organizational structures, workflow, and operating procedures.
Experience with planning graphics or data visualization software’s e.g. PowerBI, Tableau, Acrobat Creative Suite.

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.