Senior Space Planner Jobs (NOW HIRING)

• Define project scope and planning assumptions for complex, multidepartment initiatives; develop budget recommendations consistent with institutional priorities.

• Coordinate communication, schedules, deliverables, and interdependencies across departments, service lines, and multiple sites; manage the critical path for planning deliverables.

• Ensure compliance with SHC policies; Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) standards; California Building Code (CBC) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements

• Oversee selection and standards for furnishings, and finishes, ensuring alignment with branding, infectionprevention, and sustainability guidelines.

• Create and maintain complete, auditable planning documentation including narratives, alternatives analyses, diagrams, and decision documents used by executive governance.

• Develop and compare complex test fits, blocking and stacking strategies, and migration/decanting scenarios; present operational, schedule, cost, and experiencerelated tradeoffs.

• Lead multisite space studies; define space allocation standards, utilization benchmarks, and methodologies for prioritization and sequencing.

• Own data governance for computeraided facilities management/integrated workplace management systems (Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM)/Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS)); maintain metrics such as utilization, density, and assignable square feet (ASF) per fulltime equivalent (FTE).

• Facilitate governance processes for prioritization and investment decisions; prepare executiveready materials and secure alignment across stakeholders.

• Mentor junior planners and provide technical oversight of planning deliverables; coordinate with Capital Projects on scope, schedule, and budget impacts.

• Independently resolve complex, novel planning challenges requiring expert judgment, scenario development, and balancing of multiple, competing institutional drivers. (P4 expectation: advanced problem solving, crossfunctional impact)

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture, Planning, or related field required.

Experience Qualifications

• 10 years of professional experience, which includes 8+ years of progressive space planning required, with experience in healthcare or academic settings, with demonstrated expertise in computeraided facilities management/integrated workplace management system (CAFM/IWMS) governance and proficiency with spreadsheets and data.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced ability to analyze competing needs across departments, set allocation standards, and recommend sequencing or migration strategies to optimize portfolio performance.

• Expertise developing complex test fits, stacking diagrams, and program translations with clear articulation of tradeoffs.

• Data systems leadership, including ownership of CAFM/IWMS data structures; development of key performance indicators (KPIs) such as utilization and density; and demonstrated spreadsheet experience (such as pivot tables and basic data formulas).

• Strong working knowledge of CBC and ADA; Familiarity with Department of Healthcare Access & Information (HCAI) processes a plus.

• Highquality communication and stakeholder alignment skills, including development of Microsoft PowerPoint materials for executive audiences; ability to facilitate workshops and consensus across multiple departments.

• Ability to navigate multidisciplinary environments and coordinate with contractors, engineers, clinical leaders;

• Skilled in mentoring and coaching junior planners.

• Proficiency with Bluebeam, Microsoft Office Suite, and architectural review tools; ability to read and interpret asbuilt drawings and iterate layouts using Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD.

• Ability to lead advanced problem solving and make recommendations that balance safety, cost, operations, and experience impacts. (P4 expectation: wide organizational impact + independent decision making)

These principles apply to ALL employees:
SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience
Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.
You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• 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