Facility Planner - Signage

UNC Charlotte

Full-Time
Closes on Sunday, August 23, 2026

Job Description

The Facility Planner – Signage (Facility Planner II) supports the operation of the Planning, Design, and Construction department as part of a team of facility planners responsible for researching, designing, assisting, and managing all aspects of interior building signage, as well as the majority of exterior building signage for the University community. The Facility Planner – Signage is tasked with the responsibility of assisting with producing and maintaining the Design and Construction guidelines related to signage. The incumbent is expected to keep abreast of industry standards related to building signage and will serve as a university resource for signage design standards for the campus community.

  • Understands and interprets complex signage projects and communicates via written, verbal, and graphic representations to customers, user groups, contractors, administrators, consultants, architects, engineers, and a variety of campus stakeholders.
  • Presents projects to advisory committees or other large groups as necessary and required.
  • Expresses basic concepts and related data in a clear, concise, and organized manner.
  • Demonstrate the highest levels of integrity and the ability to work independently, as well as with others in a team-based environment.
  • Develop professional working relationships and collaborate with a high degree of interaction with external vendors, FM staff, campus stakeholders, other university colleagues in the UNC System, and within the PDC team.
  • Understand and apply basic concepts, practices, and theories involved in planning, design,
  • development, review, and permitting of campus building signage.
  • Assures that design documents are in compliance with building codes.
  • Assesses and reviews consulting design professionals’ proposed design solutions, specifications, cost estimates, etc., and makes recommendations for needed revisions.
  • Develops project directives, outlines, projections, budgets, estimates, amendments, timelines, resource studies, and strategies to meet pertinent building and construction rules, regulations, and permitting, especially related to building signage projects.
  • Focus on finding compromises with customers to achieve design goals.
  • Perform other duties as assigned and/or delegated to support all PDC operations.
UNC Charlotte
Facility Planner - Signage - 174108