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Remote Junior Medical Facility Planner

Job Details

SAN ANTONIO, TX

Description

NIKA is hiring for a couple Junior Medical Equipment Planners who will provide support services to the Defense Health Agency (DHA) working out of the San Antonio, TX or Falls Church, VA offices. They are also open to remote candidates if necessary. 

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:

• 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.
• 3 years of healthcare architecture or engineering planning and design experience.
• 1 years of government healthcare planning and design experience.

Benefits:
•Health, Dental, Vision
•Life Insurance
•401k + match
•Paid Time Off

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. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Requires a minimum of Bachelor’s degree in nursing, other clinical area, engineering, architecture or healthcare administration.

5-7 years’ experience and working knowledge of health facility planning and design and healthcare delivery.

Proficient with the following Microsoft Office programs: Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, SharePoint and Outlook.

Preferred experience, working knowledge and executive level understanding of the Military Health System (MHS), the Defense Health Agency, DHA Facilities Enterprise, DHNs and the Services facility planning organizations).

Senior level written and oral communication skills.

Working knowledge of DoD medical space planning and design criteria, DoD space and equipment planning system (SEPS), and industry standards for the planning and design of medical facilities preferred.

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