Medical Architect & Planner

From designing what's next to building the future of care, the work we do is driven by the needs of our members and employees. When you join our team, you build upon our experience and grow your own. With remarkable tools and resources at your fingertips — including massive online data systems that store everything from blueprints and templates to building codes and models — you'll make informed and accurate decisions right down to the last detail.

In this role, you will design and plan inpatient and outpatient medical facilities templates, programs and standards for expansion, replacement, and retrofit projects. You will review plans developed by the Capital Project Teams and consultants to confirm conformance with standards and to identify best practices.

You will also plan utilization, planning allocation rules, sizes, layout, design, and/or infrastructure of space and facilities for hospitals and medical facilities consistent with requirements of technology integration, efficiency, safety, and cost effectiveness.

Duties include evaluating, selecting, and applying standard architectural/design/engineering/planning techniques, procedures, and standards as well as researching, planning, designing, and reviewing functional, spatial, design, infrastructure requirements of new structures or renovation.

You will assist field teams and Kaiser Permanente service areas in preparing information regarding function, design, specifications, materials, equipment, estimated costs, and construction time for management approval. In addition, you will prepare scale drawings and may provide technical input to contract documents for building contractors as needed.

Working with KP’s Facilities, Strategy, Planning & Design team brings unique opportunities to learn, grow, and influence healthcare design across the US and the world.

KP has a project budget on over 3 billion dollars a year. This means you are exposed to dozens of different projects, from micro clinics to hospitals, and you come into contact with a multitude of clinical and design experts every year.

We operate 80 million square feet of space and have a very robust database that helps us monitor the success of our designs for continuous improvement. Our Property Profiles and Post Occupancy Evaluation programs allow us to hear first-hand about what is working and what is not working for the end users of the buildings we design, and how our designs can improve people’s lives.

Kaiser’s unique model of integrated care delivery gives us the opportunity to partner with clinicians and members to develop our design program and support KP’s mission of delivering affordable, high-quality care to our members. If we have a question about the best way to design a specific space, or want to test a new model of care, we have access over 20,000 physicians, 59,000 nurses, and 12 million members that we can leverage for input and information. This allows us to get a depth and breadth of knowledge that is hard to match anywhere else.

Our architects and planners have the opportunity to lead research and initiatives on topics they care about. We have resources like the Garfield Innovation Center, the Tustin Ranch Innovation Center, and the Center for Total Health, where we can test both real and virtual mock-ups and leverage our access to different kinds of end users to get comprehensive feedback on our designs.

In addition, Kaiser’s emphasis on diversity, growth opportunities, work/life balance, and our robust benefits package consistently put us among the best places to work for.

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