Job Description
Workplace Strategist - ( 2300046L )
**Description**
The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?
Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!
**Your Opportunity**
Our built environment is transforming rapidly as world events drive new paradigms about where we live, learn, play, and conduct business. Our Buildings practice, and Workplace and Facilities Planning sectors within that, keeps people at its heart, to creatively envision, plan and design for meaningful and useful places that reflect forward thinking. Join us to contribute your ideas and skills in this exciting time of change and innovation.
The primary role of the Workplace Strategist is to identify and define a client's operational, cultural, and strategic requirements and translate those into short and long-term space needs and recommendations as part of facilities program plans, and master plans. This process typically involves data collection through surveys, observations and interviews, development of space needs data, data graphics, written narratives, development of strategies to meet those needs, and documentation of all findings and recommendations. This may also include production of drawings (2D/3D), data graphics to support the analyses, space planning and test fits, concept development, stack and block plans, and graphic designs. Collaboration is required between different disciplines on the project team including site planners, architects, interior designers, and subconsultants. The role is highly interactive, including presenting information and ideas to the internal team and the client, assisting in facilitating workshops and running meetings.
**Your Key Responsibilities**
+ Conduct collection of data through research, surveys, interviews, drawings, and reports, conducting walk-throughs of existing facilities, facilitating user group interviews, and workshops.
+ Develop data collection tools and analyze data collected.
+ Document findings with a combination of written narrative, graphics, data analysis, and other communication methods.
+ Assist in conducting assessments of existing conditions.
+ Produce data graphics, planning diagrams and supporting graphics, including stack & block and space plans.
+ Research concepts, workplace strategies, benchmarks, trends, and precedents.
+ Create dynamic reports that include graphic and analytical content.
+ Support the planning Project Manager and other team members to prepare for, and conduct interviews, meetings, workshops, and presentations.
+ Coordinate with all other team members to develop the planning approach, solutions and documentation.
+ Work with defined project scopes, budgets, and schedules.
**Qualifications**
**Your Capabilities and Credentials**
+ Understanding of what space needs programming is, what facilities planning is, workplace strategies, data analysis and benchmarking and some experience in each of these areas if possible.
+ Understanding and some experience with space planning, stack and block, and test fit planning.
+ Strong writing and report organization skills.
+ Strong verbal and presentation skills.
+ Basic knowledge of space use standards, benchmarks such as SF/person, circulation factors, efficiency factors and SF terminology and definition (USF, NSF, GSF etc.)
+ Ability to check own work for accuracy and completeness and manage time to meet project budget and schedule outlined by Project Manager.
+ Ability to participate and collaborate in a project team setting through all phases of interior design document production and to engage in creative and critical thought.
+ Ability to interpret sketches, drawings, project program and other similar material.
+ Understanding and familiarity with using software including Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Revit and/or AutoCAD; some experience with Adobe Creative Suite and InDesign preferred. Familiarity with data analysis software is a bonus.
**Education and Experience**
+ Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in planning, architecture, interior design, business, project management or any similarly related field.
+ Minimum 0-5 years of relevant experience.
Typical office environment working with computers in a hybrid work environment allowing some work from home if desired. Some travel may be required for activities such as delivering plans or documents to reviewing agencies or clients, attending interviews or meetings. May occasionally visit project sites and/or be exposed to outside elements and inclement weather conditions.
_This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice._
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best. #DesignYourPlace
Pay transparency laws require employers to provide the following information for positions that may be in the following jurisdiction(s):
**Salary Range(s):**
* $55,000 - $77,000 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in CO and HI
The final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.
**Benefits Summary:** Regular full-time and part-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).
Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.
_The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements._
**Primary Location** : United States-Colorado-Denver
**Work Locations** :
Denver 17th St CO
**Organization** : BC-2270 Buildings-US Southwest
**Employee Status** : Regular
**Job Level** : Individual Contributor
**Travel** : Yes, 10 % of the Time
**Schedule** : Full-time
**Job Posting** : Oct 16, 2023, 2:28:25 PM
**Req ID:** 2300046L
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans
