Healthcare Facility Planner II

University of Utah Health•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

The Healthcare Facility Planner II provides oversight and management of clinical space planning and project scoping. The role works with organizational leaders to scope projects and strategically manage space requests, while maintaining positive relationships, processing invoices professionally and promptly, upholding safety and quality standards, managing time effectively, and controlling budgets. The position does not provide direct patient care. The planner supports the organization's clinical space needs and related code requirements. They work with staff and stakeholders to define objectives, prioritize needs, develop project scopes, and create schematic-level plans, preliminary schedules, budgets, reports, studies, and presentations for approvals and further design development. The role coordinates with users, affected departments, design teams, and external consultants to resolve planning issues and translate strategic objectives into functional space utilization. The position applies healthcare planning best practices, develops planning standards and methods—including lean design and evidence-based design—and conducts facility capital project space and budget requests. It also develops test fits, feasibility studies, space analyses, and conceptual planning options; performs critical thinking and data analysis; and aligns facility and space strategies with institutional growth objectives. The planner serves as a strategic liaison among institutional leadership, project teams, and external consultants.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in architecture, design, or a related field.
Five years of related architectural, construction, planning, healthcare, or similar work experience.
Experience in medical environments or planning.
Demonstrated excellence in healthcare space or project implementations.
Experience with healthcare projects from programming or concept design through design development.
Experience collaborating with design teams, consultants, and clients.
Skills in leading and managing user-group engagements and developing deliverables.
Familiarity with 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.
Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare-related codes and standards.
Experience working with end users to outline process flows and critical adjacencies of clinical spaces and create department floor plan concepts and functional program documents reflecting operations and strategic direction.
Experience in move coordination and complex related project planning.

Responsibilities

Assist with planning and managing clinical space needs and associated 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 executive approval and further design development.
Facilitate interactions among users, affected departments, and outside consultants to resolve architectural programming and planning problems.
Serve as the client contact authorized to conduct healthcare planning activities.
Research and apply planning best practices.
Prepare internal 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.
Scope and conduct facility capital project space and budget requests.
Perform critical thinking and data analysis.
Partner with organizational leadership to align facility and space strategies with institutional growth objectives.
Serve as a strategic liaison among institutional leadership, project teams, and external consultants.
Develop test fits, feasibility studies, space analyses, and conceptual planning options to evaluate functionality and strategic alignment in healthcare spaces.