Medical Planner

Hoefer Welker is seeking an experienced Healthcare Planner to join our collaborative team. The Healthcare Planner will provide programming, master planning, design and clinical planning expertise consistent with the firm’s commitment to design and project delivery excellence.

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Demonstrate proficiency in clinical processes, codes and guidelines, and best practices across major inpatient and outpatient departments to lead the design and planning of hospitals and clinics.
• Familiar with current trends in healthcare delivery, application of innovative healthcare strategic planning, and the impact of newly emerging technologies in medical equipment and medical communications.
• Facilitate the determination of goals and objectives of the healthcare facility with the client.
• Ability to generate functional space program and planning direction based on patient volume and facility calculations.
• Ability to work with end users to outline process flows and critical adjacencies; formulate sound design solution commensurate with their needs.
• Effectively lead healthcare planning from Concept through Design Development phase; provide design and technical solutions to ensure interdisciplinary and quality control coordination.
• Work in partnership with architects, interior designers, and project managers to assure a cohesive and holistic design.
• Manage planning team deliverables within the greater project deliverable schedule in conjunction with project managers.
• Provide guidance to junior planners and support staff; supervise and mentor staff members in conjunction with project managers.
• Ability to advance firm-wide healthcare practice through active participation in continual progression of standards and guidelines.
• Participate in marketing proposals and interviews.

Education/Experience: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture with a minimum of 10-15 years of healthcare planning experience required with emphasis in clinical planning leadership and knowledge of architectural design and code requirements.
• Experience in successfully leading the architectural programming and healthcare planning process to create strategic campus master plans, departmental level master plans and department floor plans reflective of operations.
• Experience in effectively leading Clinical User Group meetings to generate consensus and to guide in decision making. 

Certifications/Licenses/Registrations:  

• Architectural Registration required. ACHA accreditation, EDAC, LEED and WELL Building certification preferred.
• Possession of a valid motor vehicle operator’s license and willingness to use insured personal vehicle in the course of employment. 

Qualifications/Skills: 

• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, Revit and Bluebeam.
• Must have excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills, ability to work effectively in a team atmosphere, strong written and oral communication skills and meet deadlines.
• Must demonstrate creativity, passion, interest and actively seeks new knowledge in design and planning of healthcare facilities.
• Strong presentation, communication, team building and collaboration skills are a must.
• Must be detail oriented and able to perform each essential duty effectively. 
• Leadership, mentoring and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to demonstrate effective conflict resolution skills, excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to confidently and decisively take action. 
• Knowledge and ability to apply principles of adult learning.
• Exceptional coaching and consulting skills, with demonstrated self-confidence and an ability to adapt content and conversations to meet the needs of the audience.

Physical Demands:  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to talk and hear.
• Frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision; distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to travel when necessary

Work Environment:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions at office and construction job sites.
• The noise level in the work environment and job sites may occasionally be loud.

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled