Posting Duration
This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of seven (7) calendar days, including the ‘posting date’. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.
NNSA Requirements for MedPEDs
If you have a Medical Portable Electronic Device (MedPED), such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, drug-releasing pump, hearing aids, or diagnostic equipment and other equipment for measuring, monitoring, and recording body functions such as heartbeat and brain waves, if employed by Sandia National Laboratories you may be required to comply with NNSA security requirements for MedPEDs.
If you have a MedPED and you are selected for an on-site interview at Sandia National Laboratories, there may be additional steps necessary to ensure compliance with NNSA security requirements prior to the interview date.
Salary Range
$88,600 – $172,300
*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.
What Your Job Will Be Like
Are you an energetic individual looking to join a dynamic team? If so, you could be the Strategic Space Planner we are seeking to join our team! Sandia’s Integrated Space Solutions team is looking for a Strategic Space Planner to apply technical expertise to evaluate the capability of existing sites, facilities, and infrastructure to meet mission needs! We work with organizational leaders and key partners to understand space requirements, anticipate constraints, and develop projections.
On any given day, you may be called on to:
- Develop, document and review functional requirements with customers to facilitate space programming and develop space plans.
- 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.
This position is eligible for telecommuting and the selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.
Qualifications We Require
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Facility/Property Management, Urban/Regional Planning, Engineering, Project Management, Economics, Ecology, or Human factors, plus 5 or more years of relevant experience; or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience (Associate’s +9, no degree + 13)
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.
Qualifications We Desire
- Effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator.
- Ability to account for investment and operational inputs and their effects on specific facilities investment opportunities.
- Ability to generate clear professional-quality graphical floor plan diagrams representing supply and demand elements of building space occupancy plans.
- Experience in planning and managing space at a medium to large institutions.
- Experience with Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, and tools for space management such as tririga, archibus.
- Excellent graphical communications skills including design and development of space program, space plans, test fits, blocking plans and graphical data reports.
- Knowledge or experience with applying user-centered design, experience offering iterative solutions, knowledge of processes and organizational change capability models.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with management and staff.
- Ability to understand and interpret architectural drawings and schematics.
- Knowledge of facilities and infrastructure lifecycle dynamics from long-range capital planning to construction, occupancy, and operational/maintenance considerations.
- Active DOE/DOD clearance.
About Our Team
Integrated Space Solutions is responsible for Lab-wide space stewardship. Our integrative approach strives to partner with organizations to understand and define work styles, how those translate into physical space needs, and ultimately develop into solutions. We define consistent practices for management of space types and using metrics to drive data-informed change necessary to support the current and future mission work.
About Sandia
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs:
- Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
- Extraordinary co-workers
- Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
- Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
- Generous vacations, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*
World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://www.sandia.gov
*These benefits vary by job classification.
Security Clearance
Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.
Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.
EEO
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status and any other protected class under state or federal law.