Healthcare Planner

Great opportunity for Healthcare Planner looking for new challenges in 2019. Outstanding firm, great reputation, innovative culture.

General

• Ensure the client’s program and project objectives are addressed during the initial concept and early design phases of work.
• Supervise teams of professional and technical support personnel in project situations.
• Provide expertise support to project team members.
• Research and implement in projects state-of-the-art innovative concepts in planning and design.

Programming and Master Planning

• Develop program documents and diagrams that address and support the client’s objectives
• Lead meetings with client user, administration, physician, and leadership representatives resolving and addressing solutions for the varying focus and issues of these groups
• Work with client leadership and project teams to generate conceptual departmental and flow relationships that foster building configurations that address functional utility and design innovation. 

Schematic Design and Design Development

• Lead and facilitate group discussions; recording and distributing the information to the client for record in a manner consistent with the firm and industry standards.
• Work with the project manager and the project designer in creating buildings which serve the client’s needs and respond to their desired image, space, and aesthetic.
• Lead the preparation of NYSDOH CON application materials.
• Write clear and concise narrative reports describing:
  • Functional use and adjacencies
  • Operational goals and objectives
  • Expansion capabilities
  • Design and document innovative programmatic solutions specific to each client, consistent with the firm and market standards.
• Provide detailed guidance and leadership to the project teams on healthcare-specific knowledge such as Article 28 compliance, equipment coordination, and technical room layouts.

Construction Documents and Administration

• Assist the project team with practice-specific support that governs the technical development of the project.
• Continue work with the client to ensure the practice-specific requirements are addressed. 
• Help carry the design parameters through CA by providing support on an as-needed basis to the CA team.

•  Mentor Architects, Technicians and Design Professionals in the development and implementation of healthcare knowledge.

Job Requirements:

• Education: Professional Degree
• Professional Status:  Licensed Professional in NY State
• Professional Certifications:  EDAC, LEED AP certification/ accreditations desirable
• Communications Skills: Excellent presentation, verbal, written and graphic communication skills.  Ability to react quickly to issues while fostering a collaborative environment is a must. 
• Experience:  A portfolio presentation of prior experience demonstrating the successful candidate’s capabilities in the planning leadership of projects in a “hands-on” environment is a plus. 
• Technological Skills: Revit, Microsoft Office Suite, Medical Programming Software