Working as part of the broader Merchandising and Store Environment teams, the Retail Floor Planner supports the creation, maintenance, and accuracy of retail floor plans across new store openings, remodels, resets, and merchandising-driven layout changes. This role assists with updating store layouts, maintaining fixture and planogram information, validating store-specific floor plan details, and supporting cross-functional partners to ensure plans are accurate, executable, and aligned to merchandising strategies and store operational needs. The Retail Floor Planner will help maintain floor planning data, support planogram-to-fixture assignments, assist with store layout updates, and contribute to process improvements as Harbor Freight continues to advance its floor planning tools, reporting, and space planning capabilities.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support the creation, maintenance, and revision of retail floor plans for new stores, remodels, resets, and merchandising projects. 10%
- Update store layouts based on fixture plans, category changes, department layouts, store-specific conditions, and merchandising direction. 10%
- Maintain accurate fixture placement, naming, numbering, and store-level layout details to support consistent execution across the retail fleet. 10%
- Support planogram-to-fixture assignments by validating product fit, adjacency, category placement, space allocation, and operational feasibility. 10%
- Partner with the Manager of Retail Floor Planning, Senior Retail Floor Planners, Space Planning, Merchandising, Store Environment, Store
- Operations, and Construction/Real Estate teams to support floor plan updates and project execution. 10%
- Collect, organize, and validate store information, including store format, square footage, fixture types, remodel status, layout constraints, and category space allocation. 10%
- Review store photos, surveys, field feedback, and project documentation to identify layout changes, store-specific exceptions, and conditions requiring follow-up. 10%
- Develop and maintain floor plan communication materials, reset documentation, and layout change summaries to help store teams execute updates accurately. 10%
- Support RELEX Floor and SpaceWorks data maintenance, testing, validation, and adoption while identifying opportunities to improve floor plan accuracy, strengthen data quality, reduce manual work, and standardize recurring processes. 10%
- Other duties as assigned by management. 10%
Scope
- Staff supervision and development: No
- Decision making: Uses independent judgment for standard job-related decisions
- Travel: Up to 25%
- Flex Designation: Anywhere
The anticipated salary range for this position is $73,600 – $110,400 depending on location, knowledge, skills, education and experience. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits to Associates (and their families) such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability. Eligible Associates are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Associates will accrue paid time off up to 236 hours per year (inclusive of PTO, floating holidays, and paid holidays). Paid sick time up to 80 hours per year unless otherwise required by law.
About Harbor Freight Tools
We’re a 45 year-old, $8 billion national tool retailer with the energy, enthusiasm, and growth potential of a start-up. We have over 1,600 stores in 48 states across the country and are opening several new locations every week. We offer our customers more than 7,000 tools and accessories, from hand tools and generators to air and power tools, from shop equipment to automotive tools. We provide our customers with the right tool for the right job at the right price, always delivering quality and value.
