Senior Facilities Planner

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

A Sr. Facilities Planner job is available with the City of Fort Worth, Property Management Department – Facilities Planning. The Sr. Facilities Planner will manage and supervise activities and operations necessary to develop, implement, and track facility planning and facility usage initiatives for various City Departments. 

The Sr. Facility Planner must have the ability to manage, prepare, conduct, and/or coordinate the preparation of detailed planning and design projects using broad knowledge in architectural and engineering disciplines for diverse operations such as police and fire functions, libraries, community centers, recreational facilities, administrative facilities, etc.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in architectural, engineering, urban planning, or related field.
• Five (5) years of responsible experience in management of facility planning, facility design, facility management, master planning, space planning, or other related fields
• Two (2) years of administrative and supervisory experience
• Valid Texas Driver’s License
• Ability to pass Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) background clearance

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Knowledge of Engineering/Architectural drafting and design tools, construction techniques, maintenance techniques and engineering/architectural principles
• Knowledge of building trades such as carpentry, electrical, mechanical, plumbing and roofing
• Knowledge of database tools and suite of MicroSoft programs, example: Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat
• Knowledge of City of Fort Worth codes and construction
• Knowledge of pertinent Federal, State and local laws, codes
• Knowledge of working contracts, construction plans and specifications

The Sr. Facilities Planner job responsibilities include: 

• Supervises staff, which includes prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations; ensuring staff is trained; ensuring employees follow policies and procedures; maintaining a healthy and safe working environment; and, making hiring, termination, and disciplinary decisions or recommendations
• Develops and maintains strategic facility master plan which includes mid to long range facility capital improvement plans which will optimize the use of existing facilities, identify new facility requirements, and propose achievable strategies to meet those facility requirements
• Develops and implements a process to identify potential future facility projects, including both scope and estimated costs, establish a ranking process for prioritizing projects across various uses, forecast fiscal resources that could be used to program these facilities, and itemize proposed projects in a mid-term (5-year) and long term (20-year) strategic facilities master plan
• Creates and implements facility space standards that provide the best solution for providing suitable working spaces for the various users throughout the city - uses these standards as the baseline for evaluating all facility renovation and new construction projects in the schematic design phase
• Manages, prepares, conducts, and/or coordinates the preparation of detailed planning and design projects using broad knowledge in architectural and engineering disciplines.  Develop options, layouts, cost estimates, site approvals, economic analyses, construction alternatives, justifications, and impact statements to support recommended facility planning projects. Prepares annual facility capital project requests and prepares facility project packages suitable for development of future bond programs
• Acquires and maintains current information necessary for successful facilities planning including compiling a comprehensive list of all City facilities, including owned and leased, across all City departments and funding sources. Use state of the art technology to implement a new system to make information available to multiple outside users in real time by incorporating data into a new GIS-based solution
• Provides support to the Assistant Property Management Director – Facilities and other assigned senior and executive management staff; and serves as a primary contact on issues and programs related to the Facility Planning group

Working Conditions & Physical Demands

• Light Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing, balancing, pushing, pulling and lifting; depending on assignment. Incumbents may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, odors, dusts, poor ventilation, chemicals, oils, extreme temperatures, inadequate lighting and intense noises.
• Light Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly having to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for the Sedentary Work category and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated Light Work.

**Applicants for this position must pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility.  Due to CJIS requirements related to system access, the following will result in being disqualified for this position:  Felony Convictions, Felony Deferred Adjudication, Class A Misdemeanor Conviction, Class B Misdemeanor Convictions in the last 10 years, Class A Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication, Class B Misdemeanor Deferred Adjudication in the last 10 years, an Open Arrest for Any Criminal Offense (Felony or Misdemeanor), and ALL Family Violence Convictions regardless of class.**

Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.