Junior Medical Facility Planner

Description

Davenergy Solutions is a rapidly growing, profitable company, headquartered in San Diego, CA. Our employees are the key to maintaining our competitive edge. To attract and retain the best industry talent, Davenergy Solutions shares its success with its employees and is committed to providing a professional work environment where learning, growth and recognition are highly valued. If you are seeking an opportunity to work in a progressive organization that will offer you diversified challenges and an excellent opportunity for advancement, please review our current employment opportunities. For more information about Davenergy Solutions and open positions please visit our website at www.davenergy.com.
 

 The primary role of the Junior Health Facility Planner is to develop and manage a project from inception to 35% design. The Planner assumes the assignment from the Capital Strategy Management (CSM) leadership and begins the development of all project artifacts through the facilitation of meetings with users at various levels within The Defense Health Agency (DHA), public works, contract agents, and other offices. The Planner follows the project through 35% design ensuring the integrity of the project. The planning role frequently requires the development of project related scopes of work. 

Requirements

• Assist in orientation of DHA Facilities Enterprise health facility planning teams.
• Assist in organizing and developing materials needed for orientation and training.
• Advise DHA Facilities Enterprise leadership on business process improvement opportunities with regard to integration, operation, and orientation requirements.
• Assist in conducting requirements analyses including population, direct and purchased care workload, healthcare services utilization, review of network adequacy evaluation, and projection of future requirements by product line.
• Assist in preparing scope of work statements for specific project requirements such as traffic studies, transportation studies, and healthcare requirements analysis to name a few.
• Assist in participating in diverse planning and project development teams and conduct site visits.
• Assist in presenting facility planning process and methodology to executive leadership at local, regional, and headquarters levels within DHA, Service Medical Agencies and Defense Health Networks (DHN).
• Assist in facilitating meetings with leadership generate dialogue regarding future healthcare, operational and facility scenarios.
• Assist the local, regional and corporate leadership with defining facility planning requirements for CONUS/OCONUS sites.
• Make recommendations to DHA Facilities Enterprise leadership regarding regional strategy for planning/project development.
• Assist in reviewing and organizing health facility planning information and analyses from numerous venues and develop information papers, briefings, and management tools to summarize issues.
• Assist in developing written and oral responses to requests for information.
• Assist in training team members and local/regional facilities workforce regarding facility planning process (master planning), requirements identification, project development and integrated approach to health facility planning for assigned CONUS/OCONUS sites.
• Assist in managing schedule, workflow and administrative requirements in a manner that is transparent to the customer (local, regional, headquarters, and/or DHN).
• Assist in coordinating timelines, interim products and data collection requirements.
• Work closely with the planning team to ensure customer expectations are met and are reasonable.
• Assist in coordinating sources of data and review initial, interim and final requirements analyses, if developed by others.
• Assist in developing system-wide expertise and ability to review products for consistency, accuracy and compliance with the corporate model. If a corporate model does not exist, the contractor shall assist in preparing a draft for approval by DHA Facilities Enterprise.
• Assist in facilitating executive leadership involvement with process, ownership of the products and reasonable decision-making regarding the results.
• Review and ensure submissions are logical, consistent and meet the requirements set forth by the executive leadership at the local, regional, headquarters, and/or DHN and are consistent with corporate guidance.
• Assist in the development of FPFP to document workflow, staffing, key adjacencies, facility planning requirements and other project-specific information.
• Assist in developing space requirements and Programs for Design (PFD) at the department and room level.
• Assist with development and review of space requirements and PFDs, if performed by others. Ensure the PFD is consistent with accepted defining characteristics and based on comprehensive knowledge of DoD medical space planning criteria and industry standards.
• Assist in the development of innovative methods to assist the planning team in coordinating facility infrastructure requirements with operational and space requirements.
• Assist in providing input to the team and executive leadership on translating requirements into a comprehensive facility reuse and upgrade requirements.
• Perform quality assurance for draft and final products to ensure they are accurate, consistent and the recommendations are achievable.
• Assist in performing assessment of current facilities and of non-facility and facility alternatives to address identified gaps between facility requirements and current capabilities.
• Prepare and/or review, update and facilitate development of DD form 1391s, health care requirements analyses (HCRAs), PFDs, economic analyses (ECONPAK) and CIDM documentation.
• Assist in the evaluation of potential capital investments identified through systematic evaluation processes and prioritized through the Capital Investment Decision Model (CIDM) process.
• Assist in preparing CIDM based supporting documentation to tie Service requests to MHS strategic guidance.
• Assist in integrating results and information from numerous locations into the DHA Facility Investment Strategy (FIS) and CIDM evaluative criteria.
• Assist in reviewing design documents for conformance with advance planning artifacts (FPFP, PFD, etc.)
• Assist in making system-wide recommendations.
• Complete monthly status reports of all on-going actions.
• Complete briefings, information papers, and other management materials as required in support of assigned CONUS/OCONUS sites.
• Perform review of facilities-related governance documentation (DODI, UFC, CONOPS, etc.) and provide comments and recommended edits, as necessary to align documentation with facility planning best practices.
• Experience, working knowledge and executive level understanding of the Military Health System (MHS), the Defense Health Agency, DHA Facilities Enterprise, DHNs and the Service facility planning organizations.
• Senior level written and oral communication skills.
• Working knowledge of DoD medical space planning and design criteria, DoD space and equipment planning system (SEPS), and industry standards for the planning and design of medical facilities preferred.
• Microsoft Office programs: Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, SharePoint and Outlook.

Qualifications And Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering.
• 3 years of healthcare architecture or engineering planning and design experience.
• 1 year of government healthcare planning and design experience.

Preferred Skills

• Analytical thinking/critical thinking skills are imperative.
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills.
• Willingness to adhere to all principles of confidentiality.
• Must operate in a collaborative and cooperative environment.
• Ability to show initiative, good judgment, and resourcefulness.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) Non-Discretionary Contribution
• Discretionary Profit Sharing (Annual Performance Based)
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid Time Off

Optional Benefits: 

• Accident Coverage
• Short Term Disability
• Long Term Disability
• Term Life Insurance
• Medical Bridge
• Critical Illness
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance