Healthcare Facility Planner II

As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission. EO/AA

The incumbent provides oversight and management of all aspects of the clinical space planning and project scoping process. Elements of success include maintenance of positive relationships, professional and timely processing of invoices, upholding standards of safety and quality, effective time management, and budget control. This position works with organizational leaders to successfully scope projects and strategically manage space requests. This position is not responsible for providing direct patient care.

Corporate Overview: University of Utah Health is an integrated academic healthcare system with five hospitals including a level 1 trauma center, eleven community health centers, over 1,600 providers, and a health plan serving over 200,000 members. University of Utah Health is nationally ranked and recognized for our academic research, quality standards and overall patient experience. In addition to our clinical delivery system, we have a School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and College of Health providing education and training for over 1,250 providers annually. We have over 2 million patient visits annually and research grants exceeding $350 million. University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics represents our clinical operations for the larger health system.

Essential Functions

• Assists with the planning and management of the organization's clinical space needs and associated code requirements.
• Works with staff to identify objectives, prioritize needs, formulate options, and develop project scopes of work, schematic level plans, preliminary schedules and budgets that can be used for executive approvals and further design development.
• 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.
• Translates strategic planning objectives into proposed space utilization.
• Develops planning standards and methods including lean design and evidence-based design methodologies.
• Scopes and conducts facility capital project space and budget requests.
• Performs critical thinking and data analysis.
• Partners with organizational leadership to align facility and space strategies with institutional growth objectives.
• Serves as a strategic liaison between institutional leadership, project teams, and external consultants.
• Develops test fits, feasibility studies, space analyses, and conceptual planning options to evaluate functionality and strategic alignment within healthcare spaces.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Experience in medical environments or planning.

• Demonstrated excellence in healthcare space or project implementations .

• Experience with 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.

• Experience in move coordination and complex related project planning.

Required

• Bachelors degree in architecture, design or a related field
• 5 years of related architectural, construction, planning, healthcare, or similar work experience.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.

• This position involves very physical work that may exert up to 100 pounds and may consistently require lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or moving heavy equipment and/or supplies. The position may involve above-average agility and dexterity with the ability to hold, grasp and manipulate small parts, and use hand and power tools. The position involves the ability to handle physical exertion, such as long periods of standing, walking, bending, crouching, stretching, reaching or similar activities.