Facilities Senior Planner; Master Planner

Facilities Senior Planner

Under the direction of the Planning & Programming Brancy (PPB) of the Construction & Facilities Management Office (CFMO), this position directly supports this mission by developing, executing, and maintaining a comprehensive statewide facilities management footprint. Serving as a senior-level technical and strategic planning professional, this position acts as the principal architect for the agency's real property footprint, bridging high-level operation doctrine with physical infrastructure execution.

Some of the various responsibilities within this role:

• Capital Programming & Funding:
  Formulates, justifies, and prioritizes capital improvement submissions for the State Capital Asset Budget; conducts construction cash-flow projections and investment analyses.
• Master Planning & Space Allocation:
  Standardizes and enforces criteria for space utilization, facility design, layout, and allocation across all Washington Army National Guard (WAARNG) and WMD properties.
• Stakeholder Liaison:
  Integrates the State Office of Financial Management (OFM) Facility Oversight strategy with the WMD Facility Stationing Committee, serving as the primary Point of Contact (POC) to the NGB Installations Branch.
• Contract & Consultant Management:
  Directs, monitors, and controls professional engineering, architectural, and planning consulting firms retained by the state; manages procurement and delivery of contracted branch services.
• Technical Reporting:
  Generates and briefs highly technical planning documents, facility impact analyses, and research papers for agency leadership and state/federal oversight authorities.
• Security & Access Compliance:
  Maintains active credentials to access federal systems and facilities requiring a Common Access Card (CAC).

REQUIRED Bachelor's Degree involving major study in business or public administration, property or land management, engineering, architecture, planning or closely allied field; AND Four years of experience in governmental facilities planning work or in related fields in private industry which would afford familiarity with large scale facilities development and utilization as found at the state level. Additional qualifying experience may substitute, year for year, for the education requirement.

DESIRED Knowledge of:

• Planning principles related to facility development and maintenance to make sound recommendations for sustaining, replacing and/or expanding the physical plant resources required of the WMD.
• Principles and practices of construction of structures and grounds.

Experience:

Effectively research documents, websites, and interview personnel in developing facility plans. Understanding, interpreting, communicating and/or applying complex facility planning regulations and policies. Developing budgets, cost estimates and/or funding proposals. Conducting technical planning studies.

Skills and Abilities

to:
Utilize Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, or similar programs) to develop documents in support of program objectives. Ability to take action to meet the needs of others. Ability to take action to learn and grow.