Healthcare Facility Planner, Senior

Responsibilities

• Affords assistance in the planning and management of the organization's space needs.
• Collaborates with staff to identify objectives, prioritize needs, formulate options, and develop project scopes of work, schematic level plans, preliminary schedules and budgets.
• Facilitates interactions between users, affected departments, and outside consultants to resolve architectural programming/planning problems.
• Serves as client contact with authority to conduct healthcare planning activities.
• Researches and applies best practices of planning efforts.
• Prepares internal facing materials including reports, studies and presentations.
• Develops planning standards and methods including lean design and evidence-based design methodologies.
• Participates in making decisions regarding planning and design concepts, including application of life-safety and building codes.
• Scopes and conducts facility capital project space and budget requests.
• Performs critical thinking and data analysis.

Qualifications

• Licenses Required: Current licensure to practice as an Architect in the State of Utah.
• Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department (preferred).

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Experience in medical planning.
• Demonstrated excellence in design and innovation.
• Experience in leading healthcare projects from programming/concept design through design development.
• Experience working in a collaborative environment with design teams, consultants, and clients.
• Skills in leadership and management of user group engagements and development of deliverables.
• Familiarity with issues surrounding innovative healthcare strategic planning, MP, and programming.
• Exceptional presentation skills.
• Ability to collaborate with others across organizations and departments to promote a strategic perspective.
• Ability to translate strategy into space requirements.
• Continued education through seminars and participation in professional organization activities.
• Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare related codes and standards.
• Experience working with end users to outline process flows and critical adjacencies of clinical spaces to create department floor plan concepts and functional program documents reflective of operations and strategic direction.