Capital Projects & Planning Director

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Capital Projects & Planning Director

Position Type: Administrator Full Time

College: Front Range Community College

Division: Operations

Department: FRCC Facilities

Campus: Westminster Campus

Location: Westminster

Salary Range: $104,824 - $110,065 annually

 

Who We Are:

With three campuses along Colorado’s Front Range, FRCC is the state’s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.

Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the “Top Online Colleges” in the country by Newsweek .

One of FRCC’s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college’s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.

The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive.

FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We’re looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.

Job Summary:

As the Director of Capital Projects and Planning, you will help bring FRCC's vision for the future to life. Through strategic planning, collaborative partnerships, and thoughtful stewardship of college resources, you will create and enhance the spaces where students learn, employees thrive, and communities connect.

Reporting to the Associate Vice President of Facilities, you will lead capital planning, campus development, and space management efforts across the college. You will partner with college leaders, community stakeholders, and external consultants to align facilities investments with the college's strategic priorities, support student success, and foster welcoming, sustainable, and accessible learning environments.

You will guide capital and controlled maintenance projects, coordinate planning and budgeting activities, serve as the college's primary liaison with design and construction partners, and provide leadership and support to project management staff. Regular travel between FRCC campuses is required, with occasional opportunities for remote work.

This position is designated as essential to college operations; as such, you may be required to work on-site or remain on campus during delayed starts, early releases, or campus closures. You are also responsible for coordinating with the AVP, the State Architect, and other OSA personnel to engage a contractor for emergency-controlled maintenance and effect necessary emergency repairs. The role requires regular travel across all three FRCC campuses, with occasional opportunity to work remotely.

Please note: You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment. Also, Front Range Community College is an E-Verify employer.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Department Leadership

• Partner with the AVP of Facilities to lead capital and controlled maintenance projects and support project management staff.
• Collaborate with the AVP of Facilities to establish, implement, and assess departmental goals, priorities, policies, and practices related to capital projects and campus planning.
• Partner with Facilities and Finance teams to develop, monitor, and steward project budgets and long-term funding strategies.
• Align capital investments with the college's strategic plan, facilities master plan, academic priorities, enrollment trends, and evolving program needs.
• Maintain and update facilities master plans and facility condition assessments to support informed decision-making and future campus development.

Technical Planning Leadership

• Guide long-range facilities planning, including multi-year controlled maintenance and capital improvement plans.
• Conduct annual and as-needed assessments to identify infrastructure needs, risks, opportunities, and future investment priorities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations, codes, and safety requirements.
• Participate in cross-functional committees focused on campus safety, accessibility, sustainability, and the learning environment.
• Partner with Campus Safety leadership to promote safe, secure, and welcoming campus environments.

Project Management

• Coordinate site inspections, assessments, and environmental testing activities across college locations.
• Maintain documentation, records, and reporting required by regulatory agencies and governing bodies.
• Collaborate with Facilities, Finance, and college leadership on capital construction and controlled maintenance requests.
• Guide contract, procurement, fiscal, and project administration processes that support successful project delivery.
• Serve as the primary college contact for architectural, engineering, and construction partners.

Competencies/KSAs:

• Project Management: Prepare and maintain Facilities master plans. Develop estimates using architect and contractor consultants, including time and material, for remodeling and repair projects. 
• Supervision: Direct and coordinate the overall day-to-day operations of the Facilities Capital Projects and Planning group. Provide overall management and supervision of department personnel including hiring, motivating, and performance management.  
• Strategic Leadership: Recognition of Facilities’ role in promoting student success and completion. Provide direction and assistance to Campus Security and Preparedness and local responders in emergency situations. Direct and coordinate preventative and responsive maintenance of all college buildings and property. Allocate budgetary and personnel resources appropriately to respond to maintenance needs.  
• Construction: Provide oversight and management of construction and/or controlled maintenance projects within the scope of responsibility. Ensure contractors are working on site are properly trained for safety and proper hazardous materials handling.  
• Relationship Building: Coordinate with College and Campus leadership regarding capitol construction projects. Supervise the Facilities department staff. 
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Champions equity through reducing or eliminating barriers within departmental practices, policies and processes.  Uses an equity lens to guide decisions.    
• Commitment to Values: Demonstrates leadership and collaborative behaviors and actions that support FRCC values.  Promotes an environment where equity creates opportunities for all students to achieve their educational goals.   
• Student Success Focus: Demonstrates behaviors and actions that support a student-first culture.  
• Change Catalyst: Ability to encourage others to seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches when addressing problems and opportunities.   
• Strategic Planning: Develops a vision for the future and creates a culture in which long-range goals can be achieved. Ensures that contributions to the strategic plan are rooted in equity-mindedness and student success.   
• Leadership: Ability to influence others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions.    
• Consensus Building: Ability to bring about group solidarity to achieve goals.    
• Communication: Communicates effectively with individuals with different backgrounds; ability to communicate in a way that is consistent, competent, persuasive and confident while choosing words carefully and articulates expectations clearly.  
• Team Building: Ability to convince a group of people to work towards a goal.    
• Motivation: Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach goals and/or perform to the best of their ability.  
• Dynamic Mindset: Focus on building resilience in employees, promote innovation and creativity, and foster a commitment to professional growth.   
• Collaboration: Willingness to work with colleagues across departments, specifically when job processes are integrated to strategically focus on ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness for students.   
• Data Analysis: Uses data as a key component to assess performance towards goals supporting student success; uses data to determine current trends and issues and predict future impacts to the students and/or college. Plans for the future.   
• Relationship Building: Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to establish positive and respectful working relationships with students, staff, and faculty.   
• Coaching & Mentoring: Coaches and/or mentors direct reports and emerging leaders within the college. Willingness to share personal experience to guide their growth; seeks coaching to continue their own personal growth.   
• Evaluation for Improvement: Reviews evaluations of programs and services and seeks ways to improve performance where data reveals that achievement is not on track.  Implements changes and reassess; willingness to phase out programs and services that are not relevant to current and future needs.     

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation from a college/university with a Bachelor's degree.
• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible professional experience managing complex capital improvement, renovation, or construction projects involving the replacement, repair, or modernization of building systems.
• Demonstrated experience supervising, mentoring, and developing project management staff.
• Experience leading and coordinating multidisciplinary project teams, including architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, and other construction professionals throughout the project lifecycle.
• Experience administering a variety of construction and professional service contract delivery methods, including:
  • Architect/Engineer (A/E) Agreements
  • Professional Consulting Agreements
  • Design-Bid-Build Contracts
  • Design-Build Lump Sum Contracts
  • Design-Build Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) Contracts
• Experience developing, implementing, and overseeing comprehensive facility preventive maintenance programs.
• Demonstrated experience developing, managing, and monitoring complex capital project budgets, including cost estimating, forecasting, financial reporting, and ensuring projects remain within approved funding.
• Comprehensive knowledge of building systems, including mechanical, electrical, HVAC, structural, and building automation systems (BAS), as well as construction methods, practices, and industry standards applicable to the planning, maintenance, and execution of capital projects.
• Thorough knowledge of federal and state regulations regarding related safety and health issues.
• Experience in operational and strategic planning as well as budget development.

Selection Process:

The selection process for this position will be conducted through a competitive, merit-based evaluation of all qualified applicants. Preliminary screening will be based on the completed application package submitted by the candidate.

Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of September 7, 2026.

This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar positions.

Additional Information/Benefits:

Salary Information: The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum starting salary for the position. When determining the starting salary for a new employee, FRCC takes into consideration a combination of the selected candidate’s education, training and experience as it relates to the requirements of the position, as well as the position’s scope and complexity, internal pay equity and external market value.

Benefits Information: For information about benefits for Administrative, Professional and Technical Employees and Faculty, please see the Front Range Community College Benefits page.

 

Welcoming. Respectful. Inclusive. Together, we are FRCC.