Medical Equipment Planner III

Kaiser Permanente • Downey, CA

129d

About The Position

Provides medical equipment planning support for use in the architectural design and construction for standard and non-standard capital projects; collaborates within the team to develop equipment planning documents for new and existing care delivery environments with provision of technical and environmental requirements in support of contract documents; develops standard and non-standard medical equipment plans, including budgets and specifications, for KP medical facilities, major renovations, and expansion of existing medical facilities; establishes a communication network on standard and non-standard projects among the project team, facility, regional personnel, and equipment manufacturers/vendors; utilizes comprehensive foundational knowledge of project management techniques to accommodate various internal and external stakeholder groups needs and conflicting demands to ensure the optimal use of medical equipment; and contributes to functional analysis, value cost analysis, and forecasting as it relates to operations and facility.

Requirements

• Associates degree in medical, healthcare, architecture, engineering, construction management, or related field AND minimum three (3) years of experience in medical equipment planning, healthcare, clinical engineering, business, biomedical, IT, architectural or construction environment or a directly related field.
• Minimum four (4) years of experience in medical equipment planning, healthcare, clinical engineering, business, biomedical, IT, architectural or construction environment or a directly related field.

Responsibilities

• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members.
• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members.
• Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples.
• Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes.
• Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information.
• Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations.
• Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
• Supports the budget development and cost analysis process by leveraging a comprehensive foundational knowledge of budgets to develop medical equipment budgets for capital projects.
• Collaborates with the team on reviewing medical equipment costs, providing cost estimates throughout the life of the project as well as troubleshooting and managing budgets that are going over to resolve with minimal assistance.
• Supports comparative equipment studies by contributing to the monitoring of straightforward and somewhat uncommon emerging technologies, assessing new healthcare related technologies, and disseminating healthcare related technology as appropriate to others primarily within the organization.
• Exercises general application of standard functional analysis processes on the equipment as it relates to operations and facility.
• Independently plans and schedules their own work according to defined periodization/severity scheme; contributes to value cost analyses.
• Serves as a company representative by communicating effectively primarily within the organization with frequent outside contacts.
• Establishes a communication network proactively on standard and projects of greater complexity among the project team including the architect, contractor, clinicians, facility, regional personnel and equipment manufacturers/vendors.
• Provides medical equipment planning in support of the architectural design for national capital projects by creating standard and non-standard equipment planning documents in new and existing care delivery environments.
• Independently reviews contract documents and drawings to identify equipment and design conflicts during design process to avoid costly construction delays and clinical usefulness.
• Coordinates with vendors while walking the project site to ensure medical equipment placement on project construction documents and templates.
• Conducts equipment punch activities and forecasting independently as needed.
• Specifies medical equipment by independently evaluating, locating and recommending equipment for individual projects used in architectural design and construction for new medical facilities, major renovations, and expansion of existing medical facilities.
• Prepares medical equipment lists for procurement and monitoring procurement activities independently.
• Interprets guidelines while working with outside architectural consultants and contractors to provide equipment specifications, noting design and equipment conflicts through drawing reviews.
• Forecasts equipment lists of greater complexity.
• Engages in project management responsibilities by independently using project management techniques of greater complexity and a comprehensive knowledge of project management to consult with user groups and strategic partners.
• Performs a functional analysis of the equipment as it relates to operations and facility.
• Completes tasks independently for defining key equipment criteria for the project, offering alternative solutions to the design teams to reduce initial or lifecycle cost while maximizing function, and without compromising patient care, ADA requirements, or ergonomics.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Associate degree