Job SummaryIOTA Senior Transition Planner
Location: Remote with travel to Martinsburg, WV as needed Employment: Contingent Upon Contract Award Project: VA Martinsburg Warehouse IOTA Experience: Minimum 3 years of multi-phased transition planning and relocation experience
Aptive Resources is seeking an experienced IOTA Senior Transition Planner to support the planning and execution of facility transition and relocation activities for the VA Martinsburg Warehouse IOTA project.
The Senior Transition Planner will develop and coordinate detailed transition plans to ensure that personnel, equipment, furnishings, supplies, and operational functions are relocated and established in accordance with approved occupancy schedules.
This position requires direct experience managing complex, multi-phased facility transitions, developing departmental relocation plans, coordinating move sequences, and supporting operational readiness.
The successful candidate will be comfortable working across multiple departments and coordinating with facility operations, logistics, engineering, acquisition, and project leadership.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain comprehensive facility transition and relocation plans.
- Establish occupancy milestones, move schedules, and transition sequencing.
- Coordinate transition activities across multiple departments and operational functions.
- Develop detailed departmental move plans identifying responsibilities, timelines, resources, and dependencies.
- Coordinate relocation requirements for personnel, equipment, furnishings, and supplies.
- Identify transition risks, operational constraints, and potential disruptions.
- Support advance planning and preparation activities required before occupancy.
- Coordinate with facility leadership, logistics personnel, vendors, and installation teams.
- Track transition milestones and resolve scheduling or resource conflicts.
- Support move execution, facility readiness assessments, and post-move issue resolution.
- Maintain transition documentation, action-item logs, and readiness reports.
- Coordinate with the Activation Project Manager to ensure relocation activities align with overall project schedules.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least three years of experience in transition planning and relocation services on multi-phased projects.
- Demonstrated experience in:
- Conceptual advance planning.
- Identifying occupancy milestones.
- Detailed implementation planning and move sequencing.
- Preparation and setup.
- Developing detailed move plans for each impacted department.
- Relocation execution.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting VA or other federal facility relocations.
- Experience with healthcare, warehouse, logistics, or administrative facility transitions.
- Experience coordinating multi-department relocations.
- Experience with equipment and furniture relocation, installation, and readiness.
- Familiarity with project scheduling and transition management tools.
- Experience developing occupancy readiness checklists and transition risk assessments.
- Strong stakeholder coordination and problem-solving skills.
Physical Requirements
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for extended periods, use a computer keyboard and mouse, and communicate verbally and in writing. The employee may occasionally need to stand, walk, bend, or lift up to 15 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this role.
