Manager, Facility Planning & Design

About the role

The Manager, Facility Design & Planning leads facility planning, design, space management, and documentation activities across multiple company locations. This position develops and maintains facility planning standards and long-term strategies that support operational needs, organizational growth, and effective utilization of company facilities. The role partners with operational leaders and other key stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable facility plans, capacity strategies, and workplace solutions. This position also leads and develops a team responsible for facility planning, drafting, documentation, and related activities.

Responsibilities

• Leads facility design and planning activities across multiple locations, including the development and maintenance of facility drawings, floor plans, site layouts, and long-term facility plans.
• Develops current-state and future-state facility plans to support operational growth, manufacturing expansion, staffing requirements, capital projects, and strategic initiatives.
• Oversees space management and capacity planning activities, including space allocation, utilization analysis, occupancy planning, and identification of future facility needs.
• Establishes and maintains company-wide facility planning, design, drafting, workplace, and documentation standards to promote consistency and scalability across locations.
• Oversees the management and governance of facility documentation, including property records, permits, occupancy documentation, leases, surveys, and related facility records.
• Partners with business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to understand operational requirements and develop facility solutions that support organizational objectives.
• Provides facility planning analyses, capacity studies, conceptual layouts, and strategic recommendations to support business planning and investment decisions.
• Establishes team priorities, allocates resources, and drives continuous improvement in facility planning processes, documentation practices, and planning capabilities.
• Hires, trains, coaches, counsels, and evaluates performance of direct reports.
• Develops workspace and department-level space allocation plans to support current and future business requirements.
• Monitors facility utilization and capacity needs and recommends strategies to address space constraints and future growth.
• Coordinates facility documentation reviews and audits to promote accuracy, completeness, appropriate retention, and accessibility of facility records.
• Supports capital planning and facility projects through conceptual layouts, space requirements, occupancy planning, and facility planning recommendations.
• Develops guidelines and best practices for workspace configurations, common areas, parking, and other facility planning considerations.
• Presents facility plans, capacity analyses, design concepts, and recommendations to leadership and other stakeholders.
• Collaborates with facility, operations, project, financial, and human resources teams to coordinate space and workplace requirements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, Facilities Management, Drafting Technology, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in facility planning, space planning, architecture, facilities management, drafting, or a related discipline, including 3+ years of leadership or supervisory experience.
• Any combination of education and experience that provides an equivalent background.
• Experience supporting multiple facilities or geographically distributed operations preferred.
• Experience within a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience developing facility standards, planning processes, and document management practices preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities