Healthcare Planner

Overview

If you enjoy solving complex challenges in a collaborative environment that celebrates each person's ideas, experience, and creativity, this might be the opportunity for you. Flad is a national architectural firm, with ten offices across the country, specializing in science, healthcare, academic, and workplace spaces. Flad is a team of creative, intelligent, energetic people who help our clients tackle the issues that change people’s lives.

This Position

• Planning, programming, and developing healthcare departments within large, complex medical facilities
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver specific pieces of projects (e.g., departments, floors, etc.) on schedule and within budgets
• Guiding and managing user/client expectations by coordinating and running user meetings for needs assessment in order to prepare functional and space programs
• Articulating and communicating the client's vision, goals, and objectives through development of the project work plan during the planning phase
• Participating in client presentations and project meetings, providing direction for team members and consultants
• Begging to present to upper-level client groups
• Aiding the production team to produce documents reflective of the owner's goals and consistent with project goals, planning parameters, and program intent
• Being available to the CA team to answer clinically significant questions and provide solutions
• Overseeing the shop drawing review process to ensure design intent is met
• Mentoring less experienced planning team members
• Traveling to clients may be involved depending upon client needs

Experience

• Minimum of ten years of recent experience in planning, programming, and developing healthcare departments within large, complex medical facilities required
• Broad base of experience with inpatient, ambulatory, diagnostic, and academic medical facilities required
• Projects completed with multiple clients preferred
• Thorough knowledge of codes and standards as related to healthcare facilities, individual municipalities, State, IBC, ADA, ANSI, NFPA, FGI Guidelines, and specialty-specific standards required
• Software proficiency in Revit required, AutoCAD preferred

Education

• Associates degree in architecture, engineering, planning or related field required; architectural degree preferred
• Professional registration preferred
• Sustainability accreditation preferred

Flad Offers

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays
• Financial health and wellness benefits - retirement savings plan; fiduciary advisor; identity theft plan; Section 125 flexible benefits; income protection – life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability; Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Continuing education and career development – internal programs; funds set aside for external programs, licensure and sustainability support, annual professional registration and organization reimbursement
• Hybrid work environment

Benefits

• EEO employer
• Equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information