What are the responsibilities and job description for the Healthcare Planner position at Flad Architects?
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.
How will your days be spent
- This position is responsible for planning, programming, and developing healthcare departments within large, complex medical facilities.
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver specific pieces of projects (e.g., departments, floors, etc.) on schedule and within budgets.
- Guide and manage user/client expectations by coordinating and running user meetings for needs assessment in order to prepare functional and space programs.
- Responsible for articulating and communicating the client's vision, goals, and objectives through development of the project work plan during the planning phase.
- Participate in client presentations and project meetings, helping to provide direction for team members and consultants. Begin presenting to upper-level client groups.
- Assist the production team to produce documents reflective of the owner's goals and consistent with project goals, planning parameters, and program intent. Be available to the CA team to answer clinically significant questions and provide solutions. Oversee the shop drawing review process to ensure design intent is met.
- May mentor less experienced planning team members.
- Travel to clients may be involved depending upon client needs.
What you bring to this role
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 a wide range of benefits including:
- 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, including mass transit and parking; 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
Flad Architects is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Flad will provide equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position, please contact Human Resources at 608-238-2661 or email us at humanresources@flad.com.
