Senior Healthcare Planner - Architecture

Healthcare Architecture • Medical Planning • Acute-Care Hospitals

The Opportunity

MHTN is seeking an experienced architectural healthcare planner to take a leading role in the planning of a new, complex acute-care hospital currently in design.

This position is intended for a healthcare design professional with substantial experience in hospital programming, clinical and operational planning, stakeholder engagement, and the development of functional healthcare environments. You will work directly with healthcare executives, clinicians, administrators, architects, engineers, and design teams to translate clinical workflows, operational requirements, and long-term strategic objectives into thoughtful, functional, and adaptable healthcare environments.

Your primary focus will be hands-on healthcare planning and project work. As a senior member of MHTNs healthcare team, you will also have opportunities to mentor others, strengthen healthcare planning tools and standards, participate in selected pursuits, and influence the continued growth of the practice.

For an experienced healthcare planner who wants to remain closely engaged in meaningful project work while having substantial influence within a growing practice, this role offers an immediate opportunity to contribute at a high level.

What Youll Lead

• Lead healthcare planning and programming for a new acute-care hospital and other complex healthcare facilities.
• Facilitate clinical user-group meetings, stakeholder engagement sessions, planning workshops, and consensus-building discussions with healthcare clients.
• Translate clinical workflows and operational requirements into functional programs, space allocations, departmental relationships, planning concepts, and room-by-room planning.
• Evaluate patient, staff, material, and operational flows to support efficient, safe, and adaptable healthcare environments.
• Develop and evaluate planning options based on clinical needs, operational requirements, utilization, capacity, adjacencies, and future growth.
• Interpret and apply healthcare regulations, licensing and accreditation requirements, FGI Guidelines, life-safety requirements, and applicable building codes.
• Collaborate closely with architects, interior designers, engineers, consultants, contractors, and client representatives throughout the planning and design process.
• Conduct facility evaluations, operational assessments, strategic planning studies, and healthcare campus or master planning efforts as applicable.
• Clearly communicate planning concepts and recommendations to clinicians, administrators, executive leaders, and multidisciplinary project teams.

What Youll Bring

• Significant experience leading healthcare programming, planning, and clinical workflow analysis for complex hospitals or comparable healthcare environments.
• Strong understanding of healthcare delivery models, clinical operations, facility planning, and healthcare design best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to develop functional programs, departmental plans, space requirements, adjacencies, and planning concepts that respond to clinical and operational needs.
• Comprehensive knowledge of healthcare codes, licensing requirements, accreditation standards, FGI Guidelines, life-safety requirements, and healthcare building systems.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder engagement, consensus-building, and client relationship skills.
• The ability to communicate complex planning concepts clearly through verbal, written, graphic, and presentation formats.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary architectural, engineering, consultant, and client teams on large or complex projects.
• Strategic judgment, curiosity, and a collaborative approach to solving complex healthcare planning challenges.
• The ability to work effectively within Revit- and BIM-based architectural project environments. Regular Revit production is not the primary focus of this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or masters degree in architecture, healthcare design, planning, interior architecture, or another closely related design discipline. Candidates with other relevant educational backgrounds and exceptional healthcare-planning experience may also be considered.
• Typically, 10 or more years of relevant healthcare planning and design experience, including substantial responsibility for complex healthcare projects.
• Significant experience planning hospitals or other complex healthcare facilities.
• Experience working directly with healthcare clients, clinical user groups, administrators, and multidisciplinary design teams.

Additional experience with acute-care hospitals, healthcare master planning, architectural licensure, executive-level presentations, design-build delivery, or healthcare credentials such as ACHA, EDAC, or LEED AP is valued but not required.

We recognize that experienced healthcare planners may bring different combinations of education, project experience, credentials, and expertise. We encourage qualified candidates to apply even if their background does not align with every preferred qualification.

Why MHTN

This role offers the opportunity to step directly into a significant healthcare project rather than waiting for the right assignment to emerge. You will take a meaningful planning role on a new acute-care hospital currently in design, collaborating directly with healthcare clients, project leaders, and multidisciplinary design teams.

At MHTN, senior professionals remain closely connected to the work. You will have direct access to firm leadership and clients, meaningful influence over project planning decisions, and the opportunity to help strengthen the tools, knowledge, and capabilities of a growing healthcare practice.

You will also have opportunities to mentor other team members, contribute to selected client presentations and pursuits, and help shape the continued development of healthcare planning at MHTN without moving away from the project work that is central to this position.

Salt Lake City and Relocation Support

This position is based in the Salt Lake City, Utah area and follows MHTNs flexible hybrid work schedule, with the ability to work remotely up to two days per week. Because close collaboration with clients and project teams is an important part of this role, the successful candidate must live in or relocate to the Salt Lake City area.

MHTN recognizes that the right healthcare-planning candidate may be located elsewhere in the country. To support relocation, MHTN offers relocation assistance for eligible candidates, including a six-month cost-of-living stipend, as well as a signing bonus.

Even if you are not actively considering a move, we welcome a confidential conversation about the hospital project, MHTNs healthcare practice, and the potential scope of this role.

Position Details and Compensation

This is a full-time, salaried, overtime-exempt position.

The anticipated starting salary range is $120,000-$140,000 annually, based on relevant experience, qualifications, and demonstrated healthcare-planning expertise.

In addition to base salary, MHTN offers:

• Signing bonus.
• Relocation assistance for eligible candidates, including a six-month cost-of-living stipend.
• Medical and dental insurance, with MHTN paying 80% of the premium.
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance.
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• 401(k) with a 5% employer match.
• Annual discretionary bonus opportunity.
• Company-paid continuing education and professional development.
• Paid professional licensure and industry memberships.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Flexible hybrid work schedule.

How to Apply

To apply, please complete the online application. You will receive an automatic confirmation email once your application has been successfully submitted.

Portfolio or work sample attachments are limited to 10 MB. Larger attachments may cause the application to fail. Portfolio links are encouraged for larger portfolios.

About MHTN

MHTN Architects creates memorable and meaningful environments for people. Established in 1923, we are an intermountain west Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Planning firm committed to a culture of design excellence. We serve clients with expertise and innovation in Higher Education, Commercial, K-12 Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Civic, Cultural and Religious project design. With a team of 120 professionals, seven Core Values drive our actions: Design, Social & Environmental Responsibility, Teamwork, Technical Excellence, Empowerment, Respect, and Service.

MHTN Architects is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.