DSHS FTAA Facilities Senior Planner

Are you thinking inside or outside the box?

Bring your design skills and join our dynamic team. Your enhanced leadership skills and communication style will contribute to the team's success. Here is a unique opportunity for you to expand your existing skills in strategic planning, development, and implementation of facility improvements.

The Facilities Senior Planner serves as a project leader in the implementation of strategic facility planning, design, and construction within assigned region for leased properties.

The Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) leased facilities team is comprised of seven regional planners who are responsible for 103 facilities statewide and over 100 related active projects. The primary duty station is in Olympia, although the employee can be stationed from other local DSHS offices within Western WA.

The duration of the role will be for one year, with the possibility of becoming permanent.

Still reading? Here's what you'll do.

• Direct facilities design, project management, and oversee construction.
• Assist in the development of short- and long-range statewide planning for DSHS.
• Maintain coordination with Regional Business staff, and key partners, including the affected programs and coordinators, project managers, DSHS executive management, Department of Enterprise Services (DES), Office of Financial Management (OFM), and lessors as necessary to initiate and manage multiple projects.
• Ensure all projects meet State Environmental Policy Act requirements, International Building Code, Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines, and state/local building codes.

• Professionals who have a Bachelor's degree
  * involving a major study in architecture, interior design, planning, or an allied field
• And, four years of experience in government facilities planning or in a related field in a private industry.

* Additional qualifying experience may be substituted, year for year, for education.

• Knowledge of theory, principles, and practice of facility planning, project supervision, and control, including physical space needs programming, economic analysis, scheduling, and space use allocations.
• Ability to establish, maintain, and improve working relationships with department, state, and local government officials, and the public, consulting interior firms, analyze facility space problems, identify physical needs, and develop alternative solutions.
• Knowledge of federal and state laws, regulations, and policies governing the Department's major business functions, including building and zoning codes and regulations.
• Ability to take several complex issues and distill them quickly, clearly, and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, and SharePoint.

The Department of Social and Health Services’ (DSHS) vision that people find human services to shape their own lives requires that we come together with a sense of belonging, common purpose, shared values, and meaningful work. It is crucial to our agency’s vision that you bring a fairness, access, and social justice commitment to your work with DSHS. We strive to support all Washingtonians, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, people with physical, behavioral health, and intellectual disabilities, elders, LGBTQIA+ individuals, immigrants and refugees, and families building financial security.

Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history may be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant’s suitability and competence to perform in the job. This announcement may be used to fill…