Senior Space Planner & Workplace Strategy Architect

GAP SOLUTIONS INC; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 175,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

GAP Solutions Inc. is seeking an Experienced designer for senior space planning and facility planning at NIH Rockville Campus. The role focuses on interior design, CAD, furniture, and ARCHIBUS management to support occupancy and asset records.

You will develop space allocations, create multiple design alternatives, and coordinate with architects, engineers, and vendors to deliver effective space solutions for offices, labs, and support areas.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Interior Design, Architecture, Facilities Planning, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 17-19 years of professional experience in space planning, workplace strategy, interior design, or facility planning.
• Experience supporting administrative, healthcare, research laboratory, and technology environments.
• Expertise in workplace planning, furniture systems, facility utilization, CAD, space-management systems, communication, and project coordination.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Government credentials and facility access.

Responsibilities

• Develop space allocation plans for offices, laboratories, clinical, technology, and support spaces and perform utilization reviews, occupancy studies, and feasibility analyses.
• Develop conceptual, preliminary, and final alternatives and provide at least three solutions for architectural, engineering, or interior-related work products when directed.
• Prepare and update CAD floor plans, blocking and stacking plans, test fits, furniture layouts, space allocations, and as-built documentation; validate field conditions.
• Coordinate with architects, engineers, project managers, facility personnel, IT, AV, MEP, GSA, subcontractors, manufacturers, and vendors.
• Develop furniture standards, specifications, Bills of Materials, budgets, procurement and installation plans, inventories, reuse strategies, and lifecycle recommendations.
• Support moves, occupancy, workplace transitions, stakeholder engagement, schedules, and operational-impact mitigation.
• Prepare executive presentations and strategic recommendations and reconcile space, furniture, drawing, occupancy, and asset records with ARCHIBUS.
• Contribute to space-planning studies, relocation plans, furniture layouts, CAD drawings, reports, briefings, and closeout products.

Skills

Space planning

Workplace strategy

CAD

Furniture systems

Facility coordination

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Interior Design, Architecture, Facilities Planning, or related

Tools

ARCHIBUS

Job description

GAP Solutions Inc. is seeking an Experienced designer for senior space planning and facility planning at NIH Rockville Campus. The role focuses on interior design, CAD, furniture, and ARCHIBUS management to support occupancy and asset records.

You will develop space allocations, create multiple design alternatives, and coordinate with architects, engineers, and vendors to deliver effective space solutions for offices, labs, and support areas.