Smith Seckman Reid, Inc Hiring For Medical Equipment Planner at Dallas, TX  Full Time

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Looking for a Medical Equipment Planner for Dallas.

The Medical Equipment Planner successfully plans and manages the medical equipment scope for healthcare projects ensuring client satisfaction throughout the planning process. This position ensures all planning activities are performed in a manner consistent with documented processes while adhering to planning schedule and budget and ensuring data accuracy with equipment lists. Facilitating the planning process to ensure a successful new construction or renovation project that meets the client’s expectations.The Medical Equipment Planner successfully plans and manages the medical equipment scope for healthcare projects ensuring client satisfaction throughout the planning process. This position ensures all planning activities are performed in a manner consistent with documented processes while adhering to planning schedule and budget and ensuring data accuracy with equipment lists. Facilitating the planning process to ensure a successful new construction or renovation project that meets the client’s expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishing new client relationships
• Maintains client relationships
• Research, attend conferences and trade shows to stay current with new products and technology
• Provide professional customer interface and client relations. Interview and verify medical equipment requirements with the client and make recommendations for “best practices”
• Identify, evaluate, locate and recommend equipment to be purchased for new healthcare facilities, renovations and expansion of existing healthcare facilities. Work with clients to identify medical equipment needs and requirements based on service line.
• Attend off-site and remote client planning meetings and conduct virtual meetings.
• Coordinate with the REVIT design team for FF&E placement on documents.
• Manage information submittals of required vendors for incorporation into project drawings.
• Is involved in visioning and preplanning with clients
• Participate in user group meetings as required for all phases of the project (Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Documents, Construction Administration and Procurement & Equipment Management).
• Attend design team coordination meetings during all phases of the project.
• Develop and distribute to project team the medical equipment Responsibilities Matrix.
• Attend OAC meetings as required by the construction process and the contacted fee.
• Coordinate and participate in vendor presentations, vendor site visits and pricing negotiations at the client’s request.
• Develop, issue and provide analysis on RFP’s as required by the client.
• Conduct medical equipment inventories which requires knowledge of all medical equipment.
• Plan equipment on a room by room level for each department, using proprietary software, ESP.
• Implement client standards during the planning and specification of equipment.
• Identify equipment and design conflicts during the design process to avoid costly construction delays.
• Develop and update budgets.
• Set daily priorities to meet established project deadlines.
• Facilitate meetings with medical personnel to establish appropriate placement and use of medical equipment for patient care.
• Review project drawings and coordinate equipment requirements on the plans. Ensures good communication between the project team, facility, divisional personnel, architects and contractors.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards for equipment installation and use.

An ideal candidate will possess the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and related experience in the Healthcare environment and / or Clinical arena
• 2 or more years of medical equipment planning experience or related experience preferred
• Experience planning large complex projects in the acute care setting
• Understanding of architectural and design schedules and the ability to coordinate equipment programming with building design and construction
• Background in project management, construction management, architecture, design or project strategy planning preferred

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