Medical Equipment Planner VI

Job Summary:

Provides medical equipment planning support for use in the architectural design and construction for highly complex capital projects; oversees the development of equipment planning documents for new and existing care delivery environments with provision of technical and environmental requirements in support of contract documents; develops highly 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 highly complex projects among the project team, facility, regional personnel, and equipment manufacturers/vendors; utilizes expert 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 oversees functional analysis, value cost analysis, and forecasting as it relates to operations and facility.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influences, mentors, and coaches team members. Practices self-leadership; creates, evaluates, and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit or team members. Leads the adaptation to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members.
• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying member and operational needs; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; develops and updates new procedures and policies. Gains cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves highly complex issues; escalates and resolves issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Leads the budget development and cost analysis process by: leveraging an expert knowledge of budgets and in-depth knowledge in multiple specialty projects to develop highly complex medical equipment budgets for capital projects; and developing and maintaining the tools to assist the teams with reviewing and managing medical equipment costs, providing cost estimates throughout the life of the project as well as independently troubleshooting and managing budgets that are going over to resolve.
• Leads comparative equipment studies by: directing the monitoring of emerging highly complex technologies, assessing new healthcare related technologies, and disseminating healthcare related technology to senior management; leading the functional analysis of the equipment as it relates to operations and facility; strategically planning their own work the according to defined periodization/severity scheme; and driving value cost analyses.
• Serves as a company representative by: communicating effectively while serving as representative to the broader external healthcare industry, in particular healthcare technology committees and workgroups; and establishing a communication network proactively on highly complex projects among the project team, facility, regional personnel and equipment manufacturers/vendors.
• Providing medical equipment planning in support of the architectural design for national capital projects by: leading the creation of highly complex equipment planning documents in new and existing care delivery environments; leveraging expert knowledge of medical equipment planning while leading and providing vision for technical and environmental requirements in support of contract documents; conducting drawing reviews to identify equipment and design conflicts during design process to avoid costly construction delays and clinical usefulness and walking the project site alongside vendors to coordinate medical equipment (e.g., drains, utilities, wall placement, door openings, path of travel, and room size/dimension) placement on project construction documents and templates and serving as an expert resource for the team on reviews; and overseeing/conducting larger equipment punch activities and forecasting independently as needed while ensuring that activities are aligned with the department and company objectives.
• Specifies medical equipment by: determining the selection criteria forth evaluation, 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; preparing medical equipment lists and providing the reviewing and coaching of others on the preparation of medical equipment lists for procurement and monitoring procurement activities; driving innovative solutions for resolving design problems while working with outside architectural consultants and contractors to provide equipment specifications, noting design and equipment conflicts through drawing reviews; and using innovative logic forecasting state-of-the-art equipment lists.
• Engages in project management responsibilities by: using highly complex project management techniques and an expert knowledge of project management to consult with user groups and strategic partners to perform a functional analysis of the equipment as it relates to operations and facility; leveraging an expert understanding of stakeholder management to accommodate various senior management level internal and external (e.g., equipment manufacturer, architects, vendors, contractors) stakeholder groups and executive managements needs and conflicting demands to ensure the optimal use of medical equipment; and providing technical oversight and direction 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.