Facility Space Planner

ARS Aleut Construction

$80K — $100K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in urban planning, architecture, facility management, or a closely related field
  • At least three years of equivalent experience in facility space management and asset optimization
  • Knowledge of facility space planning, utilization analysis, and asset-optimization principles
  • Experience evaluating facility space requirements and conducting facility inspections
  • Ability to analyze facility information and prepare recommendations
  • Strong written communication and stakeholder coordination skills
  • Must work full-time onsite at Schriever Space Force Base

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate tenant space requests against the Department of the Air Force standards
  • Validate mission functions and scheduling requirements for facility space requests
  • Calculate customer space authorizations using governing facility criteria
  • Conduct facility-utilization inspections and physical space audits
  • Maintain facility-use and occupancy information in Government systems
  • Develop Space Optimization Courses of Action for space management
  • Prepare analytical summaries and recommendations for facility optimization

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Dental/Vision insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Life insurance
  • 401k and match
Full Job Description
THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD

The Facility Space Planner coordinates with facility users, unit representatives, real-property personnel, engineers, planners, Geographic Information System personnel, and other installation stakeholders. The selected candidate will evaluate space requests, calculate facility authorizations, conduct utilization inspections, develop Space Optimization Courses of Action, and maintain facility-space information in Government systems of record.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Evaluate tenant space requests against applicable Department of the Air Force facility standards and the installation's existing facility inventory.
  • Validate mission functions, personnel, equipment, adjacency, security, utility, and scheduling requirements associated with facility space requests.
  • Calculate customer space authorizations using DAFMAN 32-1084, applicable category codes, and other governing facility criteria.
  • Compare authorized space with current allocation, occupancy, square footage, and actual facility use.
  • Conduct facility-utilization inspections and physical space audits to verify occupants, personnel counts, space types, floor plans, and underutilized areas.
  • Maintain facility-use, category-code, personnel-assignment, occupancy, and related space information in NexGen IT/TRIRIGA and other Government systems of record.
  • Develop Space Optimization Courses of Action addressing consolidation, shared use, reassignment, relocation, reconfiguration, lease reduction, or movement into better-performing assets.
  • Evaluate proposed alternatives for square footage, utilization, mission adjacency, security, facility condition, utilities, implementation constraints, and effects on other occupants.
  • Prepare floor-plan markups, utilization graphics, analytical summaries, briefing materials, and recommendations.
  • Develop and maintain the Installation Facility Space Optimization Plan.
  • Support quarterly Facilities Board Working Groups and Facilities Boards.
  • Coordinate Customer Authorization Worksheets with the Air Force Civil Engineer Center and Geographic Information System/GeoBase personnel.
  • Process ad hoc facility space requests and provide timely, decision-ready recommendations.
  • Synchronize approved space decisions across NexGen IT, Customer Authorization Worksheets, floor plans, unit records, and installation planning documents.
  • Provide technical observations, analyses, documentation, and recommendations while preserving Government authority over facility assignments, approvals, priorities, and implementation decisions.


Minimum Qualifications

Candidates must satisfy one of the following Facility Space Planner qualification paths:

  • Bachelor's degree in urban planning, architecture, facility management, or a closely related field;
  • At least three years of equivalent experience in facility space management and asset optimization.


Candidates must also demonstrate:

  • Knowledge of facility space planning, utilization analysis, space authorization, and asset-optimization principles.
  • Experience evaluating facility space requirements and comparing authorized space with existing allocations and actual use.
  • Experience conducting facility inspections, occupancy assessments, physical space audits, or similar field-verification activities.
  • Ability to analyze quantitative and qualitative facility information and develop practical, supportable recommendations.
  • Experience maintaining facility, real-property, occupancy, or space-management records in an enterprise database or system of record.
  • Ability to prepare and present planning analyses, floor-plan markups, briefing materials, and recommendations.
  • Strong written communication, stakeholder coordination, data-management, and problem-resolution skills.
  • Ability to work full-time onsite at Schriever Space Force Base.
  • Legal United States residency and work authorization and the ability to satisfy Government suitability, installation-access, and restricted-area requirements.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Direct experience supporting a Civil Engineer Squadron, military installation, or Air Force Civil Engineer Center program.
  • Experience applying Department of the Air Force facility space criteria, category codes, and DAFMAN 32-1084.
  • Experience using NexGen IT/TRIRIGA or a comparable real-property and facility-management system.
  • Experience developing Space Optimization Courses of Action, Customer Authorization Worksheets, or facility-utilization studies.
  • Experience supporting Facilities Board Working Groups, Facilities Boards, mission beddowns, facility consolidations, or organizational relocations.
  • Familiarity with Geographic Information System/GeoBase data, CAD floor plans, and facility inventory records.
  • Experience coordinating facility space requirements in controlled or restricted military environments.


Salary Range:

  • $80,000 -- $100,000 (annually)


Closing Date:

  • We will accept applications until 11/1/26.


Benefits:

Aleut offers the following benefits to eligible employees:

  • Health insurance
  • Dental/Vision insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Life insurance
  • 401k and match


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