Science Planner

at  Flad Architects

Overview:
If you enjoy solving complex challenges in a collaborative environment that celebrates each person’s ideas, experience, and creativity, this might be the opportunity for you. Flad is a national architectural firm, with ten offices across the country, specializing in science, healthcare, academic, and workplace spaces. Flad is a team of creative, intelligent, energetic people who help our clients tackle the issues that change people’s lives.

How will your days be spent:

• Support experienced science planner(s) with various project responsibilities. May work on multiple, simultaneous projects.
• Begin to participate in planning exercises. Start to solve planning issues including departmental relationships and programming parameters.
• Participate in client and user group interviews for needs assessment and implement lab planning documentation. Begin to understand lab equipment and its impact on research spaces.
• Begin attending client meetings to observe the presentation process and sometimes participate.
• Assist in developing lab programming and planning parameters, including lab functional models, lab staffing, and detailed lab design for client meetings.
• Begin developing work relationships with team members and consultants to ensure an integrated project is on schedule and within budget.
• Begin to understand the principles of sustainable design. Incorporate those principles in all planning and design decisions.

What you bring to this role:

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of three years of recent science planning experience with a focus on master planning, programming, and developing large complex laboratory facilities required.
• A broad base of experience with a focus in science and technology facilities for academic, bio-pharmaceutical, government, or process planning preferred.
• Projects completed with multiple clients ideal.
• Basic knowledge of codes, standards, and guidelines as related to labs, individual municipalities, State, IBC, ADA, ANSI, NFPA, NSF, cGMP, and cGLP.

EDUCATION:

• Associates degree in architecture, engineering, planning or related field required; architectural degree preferred.
• Professional registration preferred.
• Sustainability accreditation preferred.

Please refer the Job description for details