Healthcare Space Planning Lead - Clinical Projects

University of Utah Health; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Utah Health seeks a seasoned Healthcare Space Planner to oversee clinical space planning and project scoping. You will manage space needs, budgets, and proposals, coordinating with leaders, designers, and consultants to align with institutional growth and patient care goals.

Responsibilities include translating strategic objectives into space utilization, applying lean and evidence-based design, and conducting feasibility studies and test fits.

Qualifications

• Experience in medical environments or planning.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage the organization's clinical space needs and code requirements.
• Work with staff to identify objectives, prioritize needs, formulate options, and develop project scopes of work, schematic level plans, preliminary schedules and budgets for approvals.
• Facilitate interactions between users, departments, and outside consultants to resolve planning problems.
• Serve as client contact with authority to conduct healthcare planning activities.
• Research and apply best practices of planning efforts.
• Prepare internal materials including reports, studies and presentations.
• Translate strategic planning objectives into proposed space utilization.
• Develop 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.
• Partner with leadership to align facility and space strategies with growth objectives.
• Serve as a strategic liaison between leadership, project teams, and external consultants.
• Develops test fits, feasibility studies, space analyses, and conceptual planning options.

Skills

Healthcare planning

Leadership

Project coordination

Presentation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in architecture, design or related field

Job description

University of Utah Health seeks a seasoned Healthcare Space Planner to oversee clinical space planning and project scoping. You will manage space needs, budgets, and proposals, coordinating with leaders, designers, and consultants to align with institutional growth and patient care goals.

Responsibilities include translating strategic objectives into space utilization, applying lean and evidence-based design, and conducting feasibility studies and test fits.