Facilities Interior Designer/Space Planner
Job Description
Key job elements:
- Responsible for daily interface and coordination of all facilities related activities for their respective building(s) and/or business unit to ensure high quality and timely delivery of building maintenance and housekeeping services
- Maintain open communication between the tenant and Sustainable Workplaces
- Drives strategic and analytical planning to optimize building and facility services guided by industry benchmark standards including: space utilization (move service center, furniture/ergonomics), energy efficiency, Service Agreement deliverables, and On-Demand activities.
- Responsible to ensure the Service Provider is delivering efficient and timely execution of all facility services in the areas of Maintenance, Housekeeping, Roads & Grounds services, as well as diving continuous improvements and sharing lessons learned
- Drives successful planning and execution Global Manufacturing System (GMS) principles and elements
- Responsible for supporting the workspace transformation projects by actively engaging with the Space Planning team in the change management process for group moves including: move process checklist, customer orientation, and occupancy surveys.
- Ensuring issue and resolution of daily tenant needs and longer-term projects by pulling in the required resources such as Engineering, Resource Management, Communications, Real Estate, Food and Administration Services
- Responsible for meeting our GM Global Safety standards, including but not limited to: Speak up for Safety, Global Call to Action, Safety Observation Tours, employee safety concerns, incident investigation, safety module compliance, and sentinel events.
This job description is intended to set forth the core functions required for this position and describe the general nature of the work performed by employees in this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required to do this job. Employees may be assigned additional responsibilities as needed. The company reserves the discretion to revise this job description at any time and require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of the company’s business, ambitious considerations or the work environment changes. This document describes the position as currently available and is not an employment contract.
As a member of Infrastructure & Corporate Citizenship – Facilities Space Planning Team, the Interior Design/Space Planning role focuses on supporting the workplace and facility systems in a wide range of facilities that GM has around the world. You will work with an industry leading team that designs, builds/constructs, and maintains facilities and building assets for vast operating functions. Doing so in a safe, compliant, cost-efficient manner utilizing advanced technology to support social & ecological sustainability. We create the future and not just plan for it.
Travel: up to 20%, based on project/site needs, including field walks, stakeholder engagement, test fits, installation coordination, and key project milestones
- Develop interior design concepts aligned to workplace guideline (look/feel, materials, color, lighting) for workplaces aligned to brand, ergonomics, and comfort.
- Own and apply interior design standards, finish palettes, and guidelines across sites and projects.
- Translate program requirements and workplace strategy into interior layouts for workspaces, collaboration areas, amenity spaces, and support zones.
- Select and coordinate interior finishes, fixtures, furniture, graphics, and specialty elements (e.g., display areas, cafés, training spaces).
- Produce/design-review drawings, renderings, and specifications for interiors packages.
- Support test fits and reconfiguration studies where interior solutions impact seating, adjacencies, or amenity layouts.
- Recommend furniture/finish solutions, support bids, evaluate vendor proposals, and provide direction to dealers/manufacturers.
- Review shop drawings, submittals, and mock-ups for compliance with design intent and standards.
- Conduct site walks during construction to verify installation of finishes, furniture, signage, and lighting against design.
- Support punch-lists and quality checks for interior elements before Day-1.
- Shape the user experience of space (wayfinding, branding, environmental graphics, feature areas, cafés/kitchenettes, training centers, etc.).
- Gather feedback on interior performance (comfort, usability, aesthetic quality) and feed lessons learned into future standards and projects.
- Lead supplier discussions & furniture procurement process
- Oversee and lead furniture interior projects (reconfigurations, additions)
- Confirm that proposed plans are safe, functional, aesthetically appropriate and meet all public health, safety, state and local code requirements.
- Develop scope and preliminary design development
- Coordinate creation of furniture installation documentation
- Confirm integration to building infrastructure in conjunction with engineering staff including electrical, lighting, plumbing, HVAC
- Create custom millwork details
- Interface with CAFM Service Center to obtain architectural documentation & submit as built documentation to CAFM for updating master files
- Develop conceptual test fit designs
- Provide 2D and 3D preliminary concept studies
- Create furniture installation schedule
- Conduct furniture installation project meetings
- Document and integrate project lessons learned into Workplace Design Guidelines
- Conduct formal bid process for materials and services, per purchasing guidelines
- Act as a client representative in the administration of bids
- Define performance criteria and facilitate bid meetings with potential vendors
- Evaluate product offerings and advise recommended solution with suppliers
- Specification and acquisition implementation relative to interior finishes/furniture/FF&E
- Conduct field verification as required
- Create adjacency schematics
- Manage surplus furniture inventory (propose, manage, move, coordinate removal & installation)
Key activities you’ll be engaged in:
- Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at unbiased analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.
- Strategic and Project Planning - Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Customer Satisfaction - Meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect. Collaboration with supplier partners to ensure services rendered reflect latest specifications and design guides.
- Delivering High Quality Outcomes – Engineering high quality, sustainable systems and processes that sustain future business productivity in multiple types of business units. Ensures that the facility management team is positioned to succeed amid changing business trends.
- Innovation Management - Bringing the creative ideas of others to market; has good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work; has a sense about managing the creative process of others; can facilitate effective brainstorming; can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.
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