Facilities Occupancy Management Lead

Base Pay Range: $114,300.00 - $194,300.00 Annually

Primary Location: USA-CA-Milpitas-KLA

KLA’s total rewards package for employees may also include participation in performance incentive programs and eligibility for additional benefits identified below. Interns are eligible for some of the benefits identified below. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed above reflects the minimum and maximum pay for this position in the primary location identified in this posting. Actual pay depends on several factors, including location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education level or training. If applicable, your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Company Overview

KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays. The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world’s leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow’s electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

Group/Division

The KLA Global Workplace Services (GWS) team is passionate about enabling the business goals and company culture through the delivery of workplace environments and services that foster teamwork, innovation and productivity. Our team runs a worldwide portfolio of over 3 million square feet, 135 sites and over 12,000 employees. In addition to ensuring the workspace and manufacturing facilities operate seamlessly, this group also provides employee and site services, such as cafeteria, transportation, security, and safety. The team is responsible for all construction and site improvement work to enable the business needs as well as align with the financial requirements.

Job Description/Preferred Qualifications

Management

• Planning Manager’s primary focus is to manage a team of space and occupancy managers with expertise in supporting supply and demand planning, real estate strategy, space analysis and space efficiency within the US portfolio
• Meet regularly with the outsourced occupancy management team members to evaluate team performance and identify areas for improvement
• Establish core program standards - processes, templates and outputs standardized for a global scale
• Implements regular communications to internal stakeholders
• Engage with cross-disciplinary teams to conceive, design, and develop programs, policies, and processes to be used in our playbook
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize business requirements and translate them into occupancy solutions
• Partner with business units to develop demand models for future space needs using data and assumptions

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to guide programming, identify goals, support the creation and implementation of space and occupancy strategies and plans that optimize utilization, maximize the user experience and minimize resistance to the change
• Build relationships with business partners to meet their allocation and adjacency needs, validating space need projections and requirements
• Refine business requirements into occupancy and space plans
• Negotiate space among user groups to maximize real estate use and improve collaboration and workflow
• Lead the allocation and reallocation of space within the organization

Space Demand Forecasting

• Business Unit leadership to collect headcount forecasts, resolve headcount forecast discrepancies between leadership’s numbers and those collected at the group-level
• Liaise, influence, and build relationships with local/regional business partners, Director’s and VP’s, to ensure their business’ allocation, adjacency, and spatial needs are met, validating yearly headcount projections and short-term spatial programming/technical requirements.
• Be a champion of change management for end users - creating, co