Facilities Architect

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Join our Stanford Medicine Cancer Center project and help shape a transformative new campus for cancer care healing research and research discovery in Redwood City. This is a unique opportunity to influence foundational decisions that will impact patients families clinicians researchers and healthcare professionals for generations.

As a Facilities Architect and owners representative you will work at the intersection of design healthcare operations and campus development. Partnering with architects engineers contractors and healthcare teams you will help guide the project from vision to reality ensuring alignment across design scope schedule budget and quality.

We are seeking a collaborative self-motivated professional with 5 to 7 years of architecture or engineering experience ideally with healthcare institutional or complex campus projects. Strong communication and organizational skills proficiency in AutoCAD Revit and Bluebeam and the ability to navigate diverse stakeholder perspectives and manage coordination efforts are essential.

Based at our Redwood City construction offices this hybrid role offers the opportunity to help shape Stanford Medicines next generation of cancer care facilities. If you are energized by complex challenges multidisciplinary collaboration and the chance to leave a lasting impact on a landmark healthcare project we encourage you to apply.

The Facilities Services division enhances health through leadership collaboration and innovation. Our team offers essential non-clinical support 24/7 ensuring safe operations and planning for future needs. We represent the intersection of planning construction general services and facilities operations. Learn more about Facilities Services at: Facilities Services Stanford Health Care

Cancer Center Redwood City Facilities Planning & Design is dedicated to transforming cancer care through an ambitious vision that includes expanding clinical trials innovating treatment standards and doubling our cancer registry. The future Redwood City Cancer Center will seamlessly integrate cutting-edge research with comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services enhancing our bench-to-bedside activities and revolutionizing patient outcomes.

If you are interested in joining Stanford Health Care please read the job description below and apply online.

A Brief Overview
Coordinates and ensures alignment with SHC standards by integrating building systems code compliance and consultant deliverables throughout the design phases of healthcare facilities projects. Demonstrates capabilities as a technical architect in both large and small-scale projects. This role functions as a technical subject matter expert within Facilities Planning & Design independently resolving complex architectural and regulatory challenges and improving planning design and documentation processes that support high quality safe and efficient facilities.

• Provide technical architectural leadership on large and small healthcare projects performing QA/QC reviews of drawings and technical details to ensure consulting architects uphold SHCs building information modeling (BIM) and documentation standards.
• Represent SHC in coordination with consultant architects ensuring user group goals and operational requirements are integrated into building design and in collaboration with Facilities Construction carried through to the end of construction. Perform architectural and regulatory code research (e.g. California Building Code (CBC) accessibility HCAI/OSHPD) and support submission requirements to Authorities Having Jurisdiction and other regulatory agencies.
• Coordinate with SHC Facilities Services specialty teams (e.g. Land Use Planning Construction Engineering Facilities Management Interior Design Signage/Wayfinding Medical Equipment Sustainability Activations) to ensure integrated and compliant project solutions.
• Support the Facilities Construction team through bidding and construction administration including submittal reviews shop drawings requests for information (RFIs) document interpretation and site walks helping to maintain design intent and quality.
• Manage schedules and designphase deliverables; align with Facilities Construction on project budgets assumptions and constraints; prepare and distribute clear timely meeting agendas minutes and followups.
• Prepare clear diagrams test fits and presentation materials to communicate design intent constraints and options to stakeholders including clinical and operational leaders.
• Apply lean principles patient safety considerations and evidencebased design (EBD) concepts to inform planning decisions related to flows adjacencies materials and finishes.
• Independently resolve complex multifaceted architectural and regulatory issues making recommendations where precedents may be limited and balancing operational clinical and financial impacts.
• Lead defined design workstreams or subpackages assigning and reviewing work products from other staff to ensure consistency with SHC technical and quality standards.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required. Bachelors degree in Architecture Engineering or related field preferred.

Experience Qualifications

• 57 years architecture/engineering experience with healthcare projects; strong technical design background.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Extensive knowledge of all architectural design phases from concept through construction documentation and closeout.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory codes and standards construction methods and building materials.
• Ability to read and coordinate across structural mechanical electrical plumbing and lowvoltage drawings in an integrated project environment.
• Demonstrated capability in QA/QC review of technical details documentation quality and BIM outputs for healthcare projects.
• Strong visual and graphic communication skills including preparation of clear diagrams and presentations for diverse stakeholder audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate with clinical operational and facilities stakeholders to translate functional needs into effective architectural solutions.
• Skilled in working with multidisciplinary teams (e.g. engineers contractors hospital staff) and managing competing priorities in a complex healthcare environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to succinctly synthesize and present complex technical information. Proficient in AutoCAD Revit Bluebeam and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with significant discretion and to recommend improvements to architectural processes and methods.

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices including the area of employment. Accordingly SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race color sex sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression religion age national or ethnic origin political beliefs marital status medical condition genetic information veteran status or disability or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders members of all racial and ethnic groups people with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity experience education specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

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