Sr Lab Planner

Hammel S.A.; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HGA's Government, Workplace, and Community + Live markets are excited to welcome an experienced, detail-driven Senior Lab Planner to our team. Your expertise will help shape cutting-edge research and development environments and science & technology for corporate, government, and academic clients.

You will lead clients to develop program requirements, lead space programs, coordinate with MEP engineers, document laboratory systems, mentor junior staff, and drive code compliance across diverse

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in architecture.
• Master's degree in architecture preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead clients/users to develop or validate program requirements for lab and high-tech facilities.
• Lead the development of space programs and physical plans at a variety of scales.
• Collaborate with the project team in planning facilities by developing flexible planning modules, lab organization diagrams, and service distribution concepts.
• Lead the documentation of laboratory systems such as casework, lab equipment, and development of laboratory spaces to create next-generation settings for discovery.
• Lead lab planning teams: manage teams on multiple projects including job production, quality, and fee management.
• Participate in marketing efforts through proposal development, interview participation, and presentations.
• Develop trusting relationships with clients.
• Utilize expertise and share knowledge with colleagues and mentor junior staff members on lab programming and planning.
• Understand and lead the collection and organization of client HPMs and drive organizational strategy for code compliance, including control areas, occupancies, and transformation of client EHS approach where relevant.
• Collaborate with MEP Engineering to support required code approaches and coordinate relevant building systems to ensure compliance and quality.
• Coordinate with and manage procurement of relevant consultants to ensure support for various project types.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture

Master's degree in Architecture (preferred)

Job description

Job Title: Sr Lab Planner

Job ID: 2025-3285

Locations: Minneapolis, MN | Milwaukee, WI | Middleton, WI | Madison, WI

Category: Architecture

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Number of Openings: 1

Posted: 2/11/2026 5:10 PM

Overview

HGA's Government, Workplace, and Community + Live markets are excited to welcome an experienced, detail-driven Senior Lab Planner to our team. Your expertise will help shape cutting-edge research and development environments and science & technology for corporate, government, and academic clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead clients/users to develop or validate program requirements for lab and high‑tech facilities.
• Lead the development of space programs and physical plans at a variety of scales.
• Collaborate with the project team in planning facilities by developing flexible planning modules, lab organization diagrams, and service distribution concepts.
• Lead the documentation of laboratory systems such as casework, lab equipment, and development of laboratory spaces to create next‑generation settings for discovery.
• Lead lab planning teams: manage teams on multiple projects including job production, quality, and fee management.
• Participate in marketing efforts through proposal development, interview participation, and presentations.
• Develop trusting relationships with clients.
• Utilize expertise and share knowledge with colleagues and mentor junior staff members on lab programming and planning.
• Understand and lead the collection and organization of client HPMs and drive organizational strategy for code compliance, including control areas, occupancies, and transformation of client EHS approach where relevant.
• Collaborate with MEP Engineering to support required code approaches and coordinate relevant building systems to ensure compliance and quality.
• Coordinate with and manage procurement of relevant consultants to ensure support for various project types.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in architecture; Master's degree preferred.
• Architectural licensure preferred.
• 10–15 years of architectural lab programming/planning experience.
• LEED AP preferred.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in managing clients, project teams, and project processes.
• Design sensitivity and interest in sustainability.

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