Remote Senior Medical Facility Planner

Remote Senior Medical Facility Planner

Department: Remote Senior Medical Facility Planner
Location: SAN ANTONIO, TX

NIKA is hiring for a Senior Medical Facility Planner who will provide support services to the Defense Health Agency (DHA) working remotely.

Named a “Top Workplace” by the Washington Post, NIKA is a well-established company that is focused on growth within an entrepreneurial environment. We work with governments to operate and manage their real property. Our operations management, engineering, and project management services provide our customers with the value and expertise to ensure operational readiness for complex and mission-critical facilities.

Description:
The primary role of a Senior Health Facility planner is to develop and manage a project from inception to 35% design. The Planner assumes the assignment from the CSM leadership and begins the development of all project artifacts through the facilitation of meetings with users at various levels within DHA, public works, contract agents, and other offices. The document development communicates the intent, requirement, and details to have a project approved and funded. The Planner follows the project through 35% design ensuring the integrity of the project. The planning role frequently requires the development of project related scopes of work.

Job Duties and Responsibilites:

• Assist in orientation of DHA Facilities Enterprise health facility planning teams.
• Assist in organizing and developing materials needed for orientation and training.
• Advise DHA Facilities Enterprise leadership on business process improvement opportunities with regard to integration, operation, and orientation requirements.
• Assist in conducting requirements analyses including population, direct and purchased care workload, healthcare services utilization, review of network adequacy evaluation, and projection of future requirements by product line.
• Assist in preparing scope of work statements for specific project requirements such as traffic studies, transportation studies, and healthcare requirements analysis to name a few.
• Assist in participating in diverse planning and project development teams and conduct site visits.
• Assist in presenting facility planning process and methodology to executive leadership at local, regional, and headquarters levels within DHA, Service Medical Agencies and Defense Health Networks (DHN).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or engineering.
• 5 years of healthcare facility planning and design experience.
• 3 years of federal government healthcare planning and design experience.

NIKA provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, NIKA takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.