Space Planner/ Analyst

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

Position Summary DLR Group is seeking a Space Planner / Analyst to bring data storytelling into our master plans with colleges and universities across the country. Analyzing space utilization and identifying key space needs is a key part of this role. You will be part of our national Campus Planning Team within our Higher Education Practice. Along with playing an integral role in our comprehensive campus and facility planning projects, you will have support to participate in facility programming, digital tool development, research, and develop new focuses for project-based analysis.      What you will do:

• Interact and coordinate with the national DLR Group Campus Planning Team, our institutional clients, and other firmwide planners to ensure the Group’s space analytics and planning are consistent with and support broader institutional and project goals and strategies.
• Analyze data (including space utilization) and communicate findings with graphics.
• Collaborate to create processes that support efficiency and accuracy in our analysis.
• Develop and present findings to clients.
• Collaborate with architecture and interiors team members to ensure that priority space needs are accommodated within proposed design solutions.
• Develop space planning reference materials, including quantitative and qualitative benchmarks.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• Strong knowledge base in Excel, PowerBI, Qualtrics, etc.
• Ability to analyze patterns across systems and scales.
• Possess excellent written, verbal, and graphic communication skills.
• Innate curiosity and continual willingness to learn.
• Ability to balance high-intensity tasks and competing priorities.
• Ability to work across multiple time zones with a national team and clients located from Eastern to Pacific time zones.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without need for work visa or residency sponsorship.
• Ability and willingness to travel and support work outside of region.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Dual degree or multidisciplinary experience.
• Master's Degree or comparable experience in Campus Planning, Architecture, Facilities Planning, Facilities Management, Higher Education Management or other field.
• Experience with coding.
• Experience in higher education facilities space planning.
• Knowledge of best practices for facility space assessments, facilities management, space analytics, and academic and student life space programming.
• Knowledge of Higher Ed academic organizational structures, workflow, and operating procedures.
• Experience with planning graphics or data visualization software’s e.g. Tableau, Adobe Creative Suite.

 

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.