Lead Healthcare Planner

ARRAY ARCHITECTS INC • Conshohocken, PA

40d

About The Position

Array is seeking a Lead Healthcare Planner to join its healthcare design team and contribute to planning new and renovated health facilities. The ideal candidate is technically proficient, design sensitive, and has strong organizational and communication skills. The role involves working with a motivated and innovative health facility planning team. It typically requires 5–8 years of dedicated healthcare planning, including 8–10 years of architecture or interior design experience, or equivalent demonstrated capability; experience is a guide and not a substitute for demonstrated capability.

The Lead Healthcare Planner leads planning scopes with high autonomy, builds client trust, translates complex discussions into decisions, and produces clear, coordinated planning deliverables. The position also supports colleagues through mentoring and example.

Requirements

• Typically 5–8 years of dedicated healthcare planning, including 8–10 years of architecture or interior design experience, or equivalent demonstrated capability.
• Demonstrated healthcare programming and planning experience across multiple departments or project types.
• Strong facilitation, synthesis, diagramming, and presentation skills.
• Working knowledge of clinical workflows, departmental relationships, codes, and healthcare delivery constraints.
• Ability to operate with minimal direction and take ownership of planning outcomes.
• Professional degree in architecture, interior design, planning, or a related discipline.
• Proficiency in Revit and planning or programming tools appropriate to the role.

Nice To Haves

• Licensure, EDAC, Lean, ACHA, or equivalent credentials are valued but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning for multiple departments or large, non-complex healthcare projects.
• Facilitate user groups and synthesize competing clinical, operational, and technical inputs into actionable planning direction.
• Develop programs, blocking, test fits, flow, zoning, phasing, and planning studies.
• Integrate planning with architecture, interiors, engineering, cost, schedule, and delivery constraints.
• Anticipate risks and downstream impacts, and communicate them early.
• Support proposals, interviews, and client presentations.
• Mentor junior planners and strengthen team performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior