Sr. Infrastructure Planner

Accountabilities:

The Sr. Infrastructure Planner will independently lead infrastructure planning and analytical activities while supporting enterprise-wide investment, portfolio, and program management efforts.

• Develop infrastructure strategies and recommendations for sustaining, recapitalizing, and modernizing infrastructure across the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
• Review and assess site infrastructure plans, master plans, investment strategies, and related planning materials.
• Integrate mission requirements, infrastructure condition and capacity, risk, schedules, and resources into near-, mid-, and long-term planning.
• Support enterprise infrastructure initiatives involving office space, utilities, and other cross-functional infrastructure requirements.
• Evaluate and prioritize infrastructure investments, including sequencing, dependencies, implementation approaches, and potential mission impacts.
• Assess changes in mission requirements, funding assumptions, schedules, and site conditions and recommend actions related to cost, schedule, risk, and mission outcomes.
• Research complex infrastructure issues and provide technical, analytical, and programmatic advice to senior leadership and program managers.
• Coordinate across federal organizations, programs, and sites to align infrastructure planning with broader mission and enterprise objectives.
• Support portfolio management activities covering planning, prioritization, schedule integration, performance, resources, and financial analysis.
• Prepare senior-level briefings, decision materials, analyses, and recommendations by integrating input from multiple organizations and disciplines.
• Lead planning and analytical initiatives independently and share infrastructure planning knowledge and best practices with less-experienced colleagues.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in infrastructure, facilities, construction, capital planning, or related program management, combined with strong analytical, communication, and program coordination capabilities.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, facilities management, planning, business, public administration, or a related field; significant directly relevant professional experience may substitute for a degree in a directly related discipline.
• 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in infrastructure, facilities, construction, capital planning, or related program management.
• Demonstrated experience developing, reviewing, or implementing infrastructure or capital investment plans.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure planning and the relationships among mission requirements, facility condition and capacity, utilities, construction, recapitalization, risk, schedules, and investment priorities.
• Ability to analyze complex infrastructure issues and translate technical and programmatic information into practical recommendations for senior decision-makers.
• Strong program management and coordination skills, including experience with planning, prioritization, schedules, budgets, risk, and performance.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound professional judgment, and deliver high-quality work with limited supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing executive-level briefings, analyses, and recommendations.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Q clearance.
• Master’s degree in a related field is preferred.
• Prior NNSA or DOE experience in infrastructure, capital planning, construction, facilities, or site planning is preferred.
• Federal or public-sector infrastructure and capital planning experience is a plus.
• Experience with large and complex infrastructure portfolios, master planning, utilities planning, asset management, or capital investment prioritization is desirable.
• Familiarity with the Nuclear Security Enterprise and the relationship between mission programs and enabling infrastructure is beneficial.
• An active DOE Q or equivalent security clearance is preferred.

Benefits:

• Salary range of $110,000–$150,000.
• Full-time remote position primarily supporting work in Washington, DC and Albuquerque, NM.
• Travel required for in-person support.
• Employer-paid employee medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Low-cost family health care options.
• Federal holidays and three weeks of vacation.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Cross-training opportunities.
• Opportunity to contribute to complex federal infrastructure planning and mission-support initiatives.