Medical Equipment Planner IV

Kaiser Permanente • Redwood City, CA

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About The Position

Provides medical equipment planning support for use in the architectural design and construction for moderately complex capital projects; independently develops equipment planning documents for new and existing care delivery environments with provision of technical and environmental requirements in support of contract documents; develops moderately complex medical equipment plans, including budgets and specifications, for KP medical facilities, major renovations, and expansion of existing medical facilities; establishes a communication network on moderately complex projects among the project team, facility, regional personnel, and equipment manufacturers/vendors; utilizes advanced 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 executes functional analysis, value cost analysis, and forecasting as it relates to operations and facility.

Requirements

• Bachelors 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.
• OR Minimum six (6) years of experience in medical equipment planning, healthcare, clinical engineering, business, biomedical, IT, architectural or construction environment or a directly related field.

Responsibilities

• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members.
• Builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers.
• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers.
• Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses.
• Leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations.
• Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback.
• Demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes.
• Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions.
• Encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies.
• Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions.
• Provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate.
• Monitors progress and results.
• Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
• Identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines.
• Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams.
• Uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Supports the budget development and cost analysis process by leveraging an advanced knowledge of budgets to develop moderately complex medical equipment budgets for capital projects.
• Manages the review of equipment costs, providing cost estimates throughout the life of the project.
• Independently troubleshoots and manages budgets that are going over to resolve.
• Supports comparative equipment studies by guiding the monitoring of emerging moderately complex technologies.
• Assesses new healthcare related technologies and disseminates healthcare related technology as appropriate to others inter/intraorganizational and external to the company.
• Independently conducts functional analysis of the equipment as it relates to operations and facility.
• Plans and schedules their own work to ensure the completion according to defined periodization/severity scheme.
• Executes value cost analyses.
• Serves as a company representative by communicating effectively inter/intra-organizationally and outside of the company.
• Establishes a communication network proactively on moderately complex projects among the project team, facility, regional personnel and equipment manufacturers/vendors.
• Provides medical equipment planning in support of the architectural design for national capital projects.
• Leads the creation of moderately complex equipment planning documents in new and existing care delivery environments.
• Leverages advanced knowledge of medical equipment planning while working within the provision of technical and environmental requirements in support of contract documents independently.
• Leads the review of contract documents and drawings to identify equipment and design conflicts during design process.
• 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 while ensuring that activities are aligned with the department and company objectives.
• Specifies medical equipment by evaluating, locating and recommending equipment for moderately complex individual projects.
• Prepares medical equipment lists for procurement and monitoring procurement activities.
• Utilizes broad strategies while working with outside architectural consultants and contractors to provide equipment specifications.
• Notes design and equipment conflicts through drawing reviews.
• Forecasts moderately complex equipment lists.
• Engages in project management responsibilities by using moderately complex project management techniques.
• Consults with user groups and strategic partners to perform a functional analysis of the equipment as it relates to operations and facility.
• Defines key equipment criteria independently for the project, offering alternative solutions to the design teams.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree