Medical Planner / Healthcare Architect

SAA Architects Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SAA Architects Pte Ltd is seeking a senior healthcare planner/architect to develop medical planning concepts and spaces for healthcare facilities. You will coordinate with clinicians, architects, engineers, and consultants to translate briefs into functional layouts.

The role requires a minimum of 6 years in healthcare planning or healthcare architecture, with strong knowledge of hospital operations and clinical workflows.

Qualifications

• Degree in Architecture, Medical Planning, Healthcare Design or related discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of healthcare planning/architecture experience.
• Knowledge of hospital operations and clinical workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop medical planning concepts, departmental layouts, functional briefs, and space programs.
• Coordinate with clients, clinicians, architects, engineers, and specialist consultants.
• Prepare room data sheets, workflow analyses, adjacency diagrams, and planning reports.
• Support healthcare projects through feasibility, planning, design, and implementation stages.
• Review healthcare guidelines, standards, and operational requirements to inform design solutions.

Skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Independent and collaborative work

Education

Architecture degree

Healthcare design/medical planning background

Job description

A career at SAA gives you the opportunity to be part of a team that makes a real difference to people’s lives; creating places and spaces that form meaningful experiences in the way people connect with their communities.

From the moment of ideation to the exhilaration of creation, you will be amongst passionate and talented colleagues from around the globe, working together to make a mark in the evolution of our urban societies.

At SAA, we continually strive to enrich the greatest endeavour of all – human life – the quality of which all good designs are benchmarked against. And in this endeavour, we share with you the opportunity to give true meaning to the work that sustains it.

SAA. Building Dreams, Enriching Lives.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop medical planning concepts, departmental layouts, functional briefs, and space programs.
• Coordinate with clients, clinicians, architects, engineers, and specialist consultants.
• Prepare room data sheets, workflow analyses, adjacency diagrams, and planning reports.
• Support healthcare projects through feasibility, planning, design, and implementation stages.
• Review healthcare guidelines, standards, and operational requirements to inform design solutions.

Pre-requisites and Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Architecture, Medical Planning, Healthcare Design, or related discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in healthcare planning and/or healthcare architecture.
• Strong knowledge of hospital operations, clinical workflows, and healthcare facility planning principles.
• Experience in healthcare projects from briefing through design development.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment.

Real Impact, Made Together

SAA is a member of the Surbana Jurong (SJ) Group, a diverse and collaborative collective of problem solvers for the built environment, continually reimagining ways to create a smart and sustainable future.

As one of SJ’s 10 member companies, SAA is part of a global network of professionals in more than 120 offices in over 40 countries.

To find out more about SAA, please visit our website at https://saaarchitects.com.sg