Principal Laboratory Planner

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
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Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

We believe architecture is more than designing buildings, it's about providing solutions to societal challenges and creating stronger, more vibrant communities. As part of our Architecture practice at HDR, you'll contribute to the design and delivery of spaces and experiences that advance community well‑being around the world. From healing environments and learning spaces to research labs and civic landmarks and infrastructure, your work will directly influence how individuals experience the world around them.

We bring together architects, planners, designers, and technical experts to solve complex design challenges with creativity, curiosity, and collaboration. From championing design excellence with an emphasis on resilience and sustainability to pioneering innovative building technologies, your contributions will leave a lasting impact on the built environment. This isn't just a job, it's a chance to drive meaningful change and help define the future of our communities.

We are currently looking for a Principal Laboratory Planner to join our Education and Science practice. An exciting position for the right person, it involves leading laboratory programming and planning for a broad range of projects with a focus on physical science research environments including clean rooms, vibration sensitive labs, quantum computing, engineering and beyond. This person will work together with designers, project architects, building engineers, and other design professionals as part of a collaborative interdisciplinary team.

We strive to distill some of the most technologically complex facility types into simple and elegant architecture that creates comprehensible places where people want to be.

Particularly, we are looking for a Principal Planner who can build consensus among groups, to move forward with new and innovative paradigms for research and teaching environments and associated office and support spaces. The ideal candidate should be abreast of current and future trends affecting clients and projects and have a deep interest and understanding of physical science research and environments.

We believe in challenging convention to create new, innovative spaces for our research clients that reflect the astounding scientific breakthroughs they are aspiring to and achieving.

• Lead programming and planning efforts with project team and client.
• Be key contact for client's leadership team.
• Establish, track and maintain project programming and planning budget.
• Coordinate programming and planning efforts with other design and engineering disciplines.
• Effectively manage other planning staff.
• Work with entire project team to meet project schedule, quality deliverables, budgets, and profit goals.
• Lead collection of project requirements such as goals and objectives, facility functions, room requirements, adjacencies, and blocking and stacking.
• Direct preparation of program statements, planning documents, contract documents, and specifications for research, educational and related spaces.
• Write technical specifications in compliance with standards, best practices, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate lab equipment, cabinetry and casework and assist clients in selection process.

• Mentor planning staff regularly providing guidance for staff development and advancement.
• Contribute to program‑specific content development such as benchmarking information, BIM library, master specifications, planning standards, etc.
• Participate in Quality Control process through…