Facilities Master Planning Lead

Freese and Nichols is seeking a Facilities Master Planning Lead in Fort Worth, Texas, or any Freese and Nichols location. As Facilities Master Planning Lead, you will help shape our facilities master planning work by leading teams, strengthening client relationships, and guiding high-impact planning efforts from pursuit through delivery.

What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team, building an environment that supports growth, collaboration, and accountability.

• Support team talent actions in partnership with leadership, including interviewing, onboarding, performance input, and development planning.

• Identify and pursue facilities master planning opportunities, primarily in the public sector (municipalities, counties, state agencies, water districts, and higher education).

• Strengthen client relationships through proactive engagement, strategic planning, and consistent delivery quality.

• Support pursuit strategy and execution, including opportunity pipeline coordination, pre-positioning, and contributing to SOQs and presentations.

• Oversee or guide project delivery to meet scope, budget, schedule, and quality expectations, while aligning with internal quality processes and technical standards.

• Partner with leadership to forecast workload, align staffing to project needs, and support responsible management of team expenses.

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying practical enhancements to tools, templates, processes, and best practices that improve delivery and client experience.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Planning, Facilities Management, or a related field.

• Active Architect's License in the State of Texas.

• 10+ years of experience in architectural practice with progressive responsibility leading complex planning and project delivery efforts.

• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop teams while coordinating work across multiple disciplines.

• Strong client relationship, communication, and judgment skills, with the ability to guide teams through complex decisions.

Preferred

• Master's degree in a related field.

• AICP certification.

• Experience leading public-sector facilities master planning pursuits and long-range planning engagements.

• Experience improving team delivery through standards, quality reviews, and repeatable best practices.

• Multi-state licensure or the ability to obtain licensure in additional states.

About Freese and Nichols

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always). Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service. For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need: developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at Benefits That Work for You), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico and Banner Elk, North Carolina. We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Join our team of 1,300+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at Working at Freese and Nichols.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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