Healthcare Facility Planner, Senior

Overview

University of Utah Health, a Level 1 Trauma Center, offers comprehensive services and is nationally ranked for academic research, quality standards, and patient experience. The role of Senior Healthcare Facility Planner focuses on space planning and project scoping, ensuring safety, quality, timely invoicing, budget control, and positive stakeholder relationships.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Full‑time

Mid‑Senior level

Management and Manufacturing – Architecture and Planning

• Assist with the planning and management of the organization’s space needs.
• Work with staff to identify objectives, prioritize needs, formulate options, and develop project scopes, schematic plans, preliminary schedules, and budgets for executive approval and design development.
• Facilitate interactions between users, affected departments, and outside consultants to resolve architectural programming and planning problems.
• Serve as client contact with authority to conduct healthcare planning activities.
• Research and apply best practices of planning efforts.
• Prepare internal facing 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.
• Participate in making decisions regarding planning and design concepts, including application of life‑safety and building codes.
• Scope and conduct facility capital project space and budget requests.
• Perform critical thinking and data analysis.

• Experience in medical planning.
• Demonstrated excellence in design and innovation.
• Experience leading 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 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.

• Current licensure to practice as an Architect in the State of Utah.
• Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department.

Preferred qualifications may include advanced leadership experience, certification in healthcare design, or experience with large‑scale capital projects.

• Must be able to lift up to 100 lbs and perform repetitive physical tasks such as lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and moving heavy equipment.
• Ability to hold, grasp, and manipulate small parts and use hand and power tools.
• Must endure long periods of standing, walking, bending, crouching, stretching, and reaching.

University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics, a part of The University of Utah, values candidates who have experience working in settings with students and patients from all backgrounds and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education and quality healthcare for historically underrepresented students and patient populations. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. Veterans’ preference is extended to qualified applicants, upon request and consistent with University policy and Utah state law.

Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities. The University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy‑related conditions, genetic information, or protected veteran’s status. To request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics Human Resources office at 801‑581‑6500.

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.