Senior Officer, Campus Infrastructure and Design

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**** Job Type:
** Employee
* * Duration in Months**(for fixed-term jobs):36
** Job Family:
** Facilities Planning and Logistics**# of Open Positions:
** 1
* * Faculty/Service - Department:
** Campus Design and Sustainability
** Campus:
** Main Campus
** Union Affiliation:
** SSUO
* * Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):
** 2026/01/08
** Applications must be received*
* **** BEFORE**** **(YYYY/MM/DD):
** 2026/01/19
** Hours per week:
** 35
* * Salary Grade:
** SSUO Grade 08
** Salary Range:**$64,865.00 - $81,935.00

About the faculty/service:
Facilities   Facilities services are characterized by a dynamic and creative growing team where the winds of change are blowing, offering people like you opportunities to use your leadership and innovation skills to contribute to the achievement of their inspiring mission: to deliver best in class research infrastructure, reshape campus life and student experience, and provide a sustainable environment for students, researchers, teachers and community.
uOttawa’s facilities encompass three main sites that are comprised of over 600,000 square meters of building space (over 6.4 million square feet), 42.5 hectares of grounds, 125 buildings and 4,500 beds in 11 residences. There are over 150 employees in Facilities, including Project Managers, Energy and Commissioning Specialists, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Architects, and space Planners. The facilities capital and operating expenditures are in the range of $100M for the University’s $2.0 billion assets under management.

The 20-year Capital spending plan envisions $4.0 billion of new investment highlighted by uOttawa launch of project Top Shelf, a $300 million capital investment to build a new facility for the Faculty of Health Sciences at uOttawa’s River Campus, as well as a tower at the Roger Guidon campus to house uOttawa’s new Advanced Medical Research Center (AMRC).
** Position purpose
** In collaboration with the Planning Team, the individual provides support in planning a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces required by the University, through inception to project closure. The main objective is to support the development of options analysis for a variety of stakeholders, in order to meet the needs of users (faculties, services, public), while respecting the guidelines associated with the values and mission of the University of Ottawa.

The individual will also participates in tactical planning activities which provides immediate and short-term solutions while ensuring it is incorporated into the larger-scale vision of strategic planning.
** In this role, your responsibilities will include:
*** Support the development of requirements for faculties, services, and researchers in order to meet their space allocation needs by conducting space audits, collating information, conducting site visits, and preparing user requirements and project brief documents as part of gates 1 and 2 of the project development process.
* Participate and engage with faculties and services to gain a better understanding of their  short and medium term vision and functional space issues by scheduling and providing secretariat functions for committee meetings. Depending on the needs and preferences of the faculties or services, the Assistant Planner may be called upon to support the Planner to conceptualize new ideas and present proposed options.
* Support the development of feasibility studies and architectural programming studies in order to assess and/or develop solutions to meet the objectives of optimizing and modernizing the teaching, research and learning spaces of the faculties and services by preparing preliminary concept design renderings and options presentations.
* Perform research and technical work to ensure the development for a variety of projects.
* Participate in the preparation of updating and prioritizing a five-year renovation and construction program to meet University goals and strategies by providing studies and materials.
* Respond to requests for information concerning the inventory of existing spaces in support of academic or other planning for university clients.
* Participate in the development, verification and…