Sr. Infrastructure Planner

Supervisor: Justin Hixson

Requisition Number: SRINF
002262

• Posted :
  September 9, 2026
• Full-Time
• Remote

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Remote - Washington, DC
Washington, DC, USA

• Travel Required :
  Yes

MELE Associates maintains a contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Infrastructure (NA-90), which maintains, operates, and modernizes NNSA infrastructure to enable mission results. MELE is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Planner with significant construction and infrastructure planning experience to support the Office of Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (NA-91), Infrastructure Planning and Integration Division (NA-911).

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Provide infrastructure planning expertise and develop strategies and recommendations for sustaining, recapitalizing, and modernizing infrastructure across the Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE).
• Review and assess NNSA Site infrastructure plans, master plans, investment strategies, and related planning products.
• Integrate mission requirements, infrastructure condition and capacity, risk, schedule, and resources to support near-, mid-, and long-term infrastructure planning.
• Support enterprise infrastructure initiatives, including office space, utilities, and other crosscutting infrastructure needs.
• Apply construction, facilities, and infrastructure planning experience to evaluate and prioritize infrastructure investments, including sequencing, dependencies, implementation approaches, and mission impacts.
• Assess changing mission requirements, funding assumptions, schedules, and Site conditions and develop recommendations concerning cost, schedule, risk, and mission impacts.
• Provide technical, analytical, and programmatic advice to NA-911 leadership and program managers and independently research and analyze complex infrastructure issues.
• Coordinate across NA-90 organizations, NNSA programs, and Sites to integrate infrastructure planning with mission priorities and enterprise objectives.
• Support program and portfolio management activities, including planning, prioritization, schedule integration, performance, and resource and financial analysis.
• Develop senior-level briefings, decision materials, analyses, and recommendations and integrate input from multiple organizations and technical disciplines into clear products supporting leadership decisions.
• Independently lead planning and analytical initiatives and share infrastructure planning knowledge and best practices with less-experienced team members.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, facilities management, planning, business, public administration, or a related field. Significant directly relevant professional experience may substitute for a degree in a directly related discipline.
• Eight or more years of progressively responsible experience in infrastructure, facilities, construction, capital planning, or related program management.
• Demonstrated experience developing, reviewing, or implementing infrastructure or capital investment plans.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure planning, including the relationships among mission requirements, facility condition and capacity, utilities, construction, recapitalization, risk, schedule, and investment priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex infrastructure issues and translate technical and programmatic information into practical recommendations for senior decision-makers.
• Strong program management and coordination skills, including experience with planning, prioritization, schedules, budgets, risk, and performance.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound professional judgment, and produce high-quality work with limited supervision.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including preparation of executive-level briefings, analyses, and recommendations.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Q clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in a related field.
• Prior NNSA or DOE experience involving infrastructure, capital planning, construction, facilities, or Site planning.
• Other federal or public-sector infrastructure and capital planning experience.
• Experience with large, complex infrastructure portfolios, master planning, utilities planning, asset management, or capital investment prioritization.
• Familiarity with the Nuclear Security Enterprise and the relationship between NNSA mission programs and enabling infrastructure.
• Active DOE Q or equivalent security…