# Occupancy Planner

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $99,100-$166,200
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

We're seeking an experienced Occupancy Planner to join our team at Ford Motor Company. In this role, you will help drive long-range space planning, develop cross-building seating strategies, and guide the business through major shifts in utilization, hybrid work patterns, COG alignment, and enterprise workplace transitions.

As a Lead Occupancy Planner, you will serve as a subject matter expert in the COG seating model, ME seating strategy, densification planning, and headcount to seat ratio management. You will partner with senior business leaders, HR, Workplace Change Enablement (WCE), Facilities, Design, Trades, and program teams to drive clarity, reinforce governance, and ensure planning decisions align with enterprise priorities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading multi-year occupancy strategies across large buildings or campuses, aligned with enterprise real estate strategy and hybrid workplace models.

- Overseeing stacking plans, adjacency strategies, and macro-level space programming for operating groups and enterprise-wide initiatives.

- Leading scenario modeling for major reorganizations, consolidations, and growth plans.

- Translating business priorities into actionable space strategies that support agility, cost optimization, and organizational effectiveness.

- Ensuring seating recommendations align with Ford Land's flexible COG seating model, hybrid workplace guidelines, and ME seat utilization targets.

If you have a strong background in occupancy planning, workplace strategy, or facilities planning, and are looking for a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.

## Skills

### Required
- AutoCAD
- IWMS/CAFM platforms
- badge analytics
- Excel
- CAD/BIM and architectural drawing interpretation

### Nice to have
- Experience within Ford Land or similar large corporate real estate organizations
- Knowledge of Ford's COG model, ME seating, hybrid workplace policies, and Dearborn portfolio

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