Healthcare Planner - Advisory Services

McMillan Pazdan Smith is an award-winning architecture, interior design, and advisory services firm with eight studios located in the southeast. We pride ourselves on strong client relationships and community partnerships. Our projects represent the work of a collaborative group of dedicated design professionals driven by a solitary goal: to deliver a functional solution that inspires collaboration, function, imagination, constructability, and attributes of a well-constructed environmental design.

A Healthcare Planner is a leader who has exceptional planning and facilitation skills to work directly with clients. A manager of company and project resources to successfully complete projects. A strategic business thinker who can create, apply, and implement methodologies, standardization and processes across practice areas. Someone who creates client connections to generate project leads and develop business opportunities.

• Anticipate client needs and proactively solving before client knows what is needed.
• Actively participates in decision making with clients and client executives.
• Polished proposal writing, scoping, pricing, and project execution skills.
• Capable of managing the staffing of client managers.
• Identifies and leads process improvement to streamline internal project delivery and champions internal change management and team coaching.
• Visionary thinker with the ability to lead clients and team to bring to a consensus.
• Can lead project QA, QC and project risk.
• Works closely with service area and practice area leaders supporting aspects of service line development, planning, and billing.
• Willing to take the lead with needed in any aspect of project delivery (not expertise).
• Actively participates in thought leadership: blogs, podcasts, conferences, white papers, etc.
• Build collaborative and productive relationships with junior advisors and clients.
• Contribute and support new product/service lines and development.
• Champions use of tools and analytics.
• Leads and coordinates project pursuits and heavily engaged in business development.
• Subject matter and project delivery expertise to develop and lead client and internal workshops.
• Ability to perform in a variety of roles through the full project life cycle with both specialist and functional knowledge.
• A leader and mentor to team members and respective practice area members.
• Contributes to product development and can lead a service/product line.
• Assists in aligning the team culturally and with MPS mission, vision, and values.

Acute Care and Ambulatory facilities

• Experience in developing and implementing planning studies
• Understanding of operational planning, facilities management, facility construction, managing lease agreements and policies
• Research, investigate and document healthcare facility existing conditions and adequacy in accordance with applicable codes, FGI, and best practices
• Support strategy related planning solutions, including forecasting need driving facility demand
• Analyze and develop plans to assist with the development and evaluation of site criteria regarding client and clinical needs
• Manage space and functional program documentation
• Provide Revit, AutoCAD and graphic support for healthcare facility and strategic planning activities
• Analysis of existing facilities via the assessment of square footage and key room quantity information against owner and industry benchmarks and standards
• Develop space planning concepts, test fits, evaluations
• Participate in and/or lead facility walkthroughs (GEMBA walks)
• Facilitate user/focus group session in planning, programming, schematic design and design development meetings
• Apply healthcare delivery models and develop operational alternatives with supporting space requirements
• Support development of complete healthcare planning documentation, facility master planning, and functional planning

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, interior design, or related field
• Minimum 15 years relevant experience on planning healthcare projects (acute care, ambulatory, essential services, etc.)
• Ideally accredited thought he American College of Healthcare Architects
• Familiarity with Microsoft Suite, Revit,…