Associate, Senior Medical Equipment Planner

Description

• Schedules and coordinates vendor review meetings with client and associated design team members and gathers vendor site specific drawings and reviews submittal documents to ensure they are accurate and correct.
• Conducts and documents surveys and inventories of existing equipment within healthcare facilities and coordinates existing-to-reuse equipment decision making and reuse strategies.
• Writes accurate and complete specifications within the Planview database and develops accurate and complete equipment cut sheets.
• Produces initial clinical space equipment lists with required and appropriate clinical equipment while conducting efficient and effective medical equipment review meetings with clinical users and architects.
• Develops medical equipment lists and associated estimated costs within Planview projects and revises medical equipment lists and estimated costs as projects move from schematic design, design development, and construction documents through procurement and installation.
• Obtains equipment list signoffs from end users the end of design development and construction document phases and will be responsible for posting submittals to Architects FTP sites on assigned due dates subsequent to review of documents for accuracy and completeness.
• Collaborates on medical equipment requirements with clinical users, architects, engineers, and other consultants and develops rough order of magnitude estimated equipment costs for clinical spaces based on program information from architects.
• Provide value engineering recommendations without compromising patient care and understands medical equipment specifications for mechanical, electrical, data, and plumbing installation requirements while working to meet project schedule timelines.
• Leads and participates in medical equipment planning meetings throughout project design phases with clinical users, architects, engineers, and consultants to support the selection of appropriate medical equipment and attend off-site and remote client planning meetings and conduct virtual meetings.
• Participation in project and BIM kick-off meetings, supporting the project manager.
• Conducts value cost analysis and comparative equipment studies to recommend the most cost and time effective equipment/systems and identifies and presents various equipment options and advantages/disadvantages to meet clinical needs.
• Coordinates with BIM team to ensure equipment placement drawings are accurate and works with internal team and design team to resolve drawing conflicts both through live discussion and Bluebeam coordination sessions to avoid costly construction delays while providing clear documentation of equipment changes to coordinators to update equipment lists.

Requirements

• Maintains a current knowledge of medical equipment devices and systems and their applications and allocations within healthcare facilities and for direct patient care and knowledge of healthcare industry practices including hospital and clinic procedures and department functions.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to identify coordination issues and Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
• 8+ years proven success in medical equipment planning or related field.
• Understanding of architectural and structural drawings and model coordination and ability to discuss with medical personnel, physicians, and administration, appropriate medical and operational support equipment.
• Highly organized, task driven, and able to meet multiple deadlines simultaneously with strong attention to detail is required, as are excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of basic and intermediate medical equipment and its application within healthcare facilities.
• Preferred University Degree, Diploma or Higher Education Qualification in Healthcare, Biomedical Engineering, or other Clinical Fields
• Document control / Information management and Proficient Presentation skills.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance