Haskell’s Healthcare Planning Position Offers Collaborative Opportunity

High-level conceptual planning is part of the job, but so is working directly with clients and leveraging your knowledge as a trusted consultant.

Medical planners often stay tucked away at their desks, blocking floorplan concepts, creating schematic plans and supporting project management’s needs. Not so with Haskell’s Healthcare Consulting group.

With its opening for an Associate Medical Planner, the Healthcare consulting arm of Haskell is seeking a candidate with the conceptual ability to excel in macro-design and the interpersonal skills to collaborate early and often with clients.

“This is a unique opportunity for a medical planner,” said Kevin Meek, Vice President and Division Leader of Haskell’s Design & Consulting Services (DCS) Group. “It’s an exciting opportunity with a growing healthcare consulting division to offer clients their industry knowledge and experience to meaningful facilities, layouts and programs. They will have the opportunity to work with clients directly while also working as part of a strategic and operational team with strong resources and subject matter expertise.”

The opportunity is unique, and so is the employer. Haskell is a full-scale architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) firm with more than 1,850 team members worldwide specializing in integrated project delivery. But within DCS, it also offers healthcare design and consulting services that have been developed over the years through development and acquisition.

The Associate Medical Planner will compile and evaluate facility data to develop strategies and solutions that add value for clients. The position requires an understanding of site and facility design, planning, and programming as well as industry sources of information and benchmarks, then the ability to develop floor-plan concepts that respond to clinical operations, industry trends, technology development, and strategic initiatives.

“That level of work is used prior to architectural design, dealing with, for lack of better words, the big blocks,” Meek said. “This person is on the front end, so we're looking for someone who has medical planning experience helping clients understand space requirements, master facility planning and the big picture, setting the stage for design.”

Once that stage is set, the planner will dive deeper into the project and become a trusted consultant.

“From a healthcare consulting perspective, they're getting to extend their knowledge and experience and apply not just to planning, but to planning and consulting with the client,” Meek said. “Many times, a medical planner is a behind-the-scenes person, whereas this person will also have interactions with the client working to understand the client's needs and put together the best possible solution.”

As part of Haskell’s Design & Consulting Services Group, the successful candidate will have access to numerous other service lines. While it is predominantly healthcare-focused, the Consulting Services Group extends into many other markets.

In addition to providing a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment, Haskell operates with the direction of six strategic pillars, the first of which is to “Provide Team Members the BEST Job of Their Lives.” It offers a robust benefits package that includes a 401k match and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), which creates stock ownership for every full-time team member.

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