Senior Healthcare Planner - Advisory Services

About the role

A Healthcare Planner is a leader who has exceptional planning and facilitation skills to work directly with clients. A manager of company and project resources to successfully complete projects. A strategic business thinker who can create, apply, and implement methodologies, standardization and processes across practice areas. Someone who creates client connections to generate project leads and develop business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate client needs and proactively solve problems before they arise.
• Actively participates in decision-making with clients and client executives.
• Promotes polished proposal writing, scoping, pricing, and project execution skills.
• Manages the staffing of client managers.
• Identifies and leads process improvement to streamline internal project delivery and champions internal change management and team coaching.
• Works closely with service area and practice area leaders supporting aspects of service line development, planning, and billing.
• Willing to take the lead with needed in any aspect of project delivery (not expertise).
• Participates in and/or leads facility walkthroughs (GEMBA walks).
• Facilitates user/focus group sessions in planning, programming, schematic design, and design development meetings.
• Applies healthcare delivery models and develops operational alternatives with supporting space requirements.
• Supports development of complete healthcare planning documentation, facility master planning, and functional planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design, or related field.
• Minimum 10-15 years relevant experience on planning healthcare projects (acute care, ambulatory, essential services, etc.).
• Ideal accreditation from the American College of Healthcare Architects.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Suite, Revit, Bluebeam, SketchUp, AutoCAD, and other related tools to work in a multi-discipline team.
• Strong technical and critical thinking skills that apply in development of planning projects and transfers into documentation, applying thorough understanding of codes, standards, and compliance requirements.
• Ideal additional certifications or accreditations for LEAN, EDAC, WELL AP, LEED AP, etc.
• Proficiency in computational design preferred.
• Proficiency in Power BI and Adobe Suite preferred.

Focus Acute Care and Ambulatory Facilities

• Experience in developing and implementing planning studies.
• Understanding of operational planning, facilities management, facility construction, managing lease agreements and policies.
• Research, investigate, and document healthcare facility existing conditions and adequacy in accordance with applicable codes, FGI, and best practices.
• Support strategy-related planning solutions, including forecasting need driving facility demand.
• Analyze and develop plans to assist with the development and evaluation of site criteria regarding client and clinical needs.
• Manage space and functional program documentation.
• Provide Revit, AutoCAD, and graphic support for healthcare facility and strategic planning activities.
• Analysis of existing facilities via the assessment of square footage and key room quantity information against owner and industry benchmarks and standards.
• Develop space planning concepts, test fits, evaluations, and participate in and/or lead facility walkthroughs (GEMBA walks).
• Facilitate user/focus group sessions in planning, programming, schematic design, and design development meetings.
• Apply healthcare delivery models and develop operational alternatives with supporting space requirements.
• Support development of complete healthcare planning documentation, facility master planning, and functional planning.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to grasp objects; reach with hands and arms; balance, stop, kneel, or crouch; speak or listen. The employee must occasionally lift and/or carry up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is not exposed to hazardous working conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

McMillan Pazdan Smith is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, color, national origin, age, disability, veteran’s status or any classification protected by state or local law.