Facilities Architect

Stanford Health Care

• $142K — $188K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years of architecture or engineering experience, preferably in healthcare or complex campus projects.
  • Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, or a related field is required.
  • Extensive knowledge of architectural design phases from concept to construction documentation.
  • Strong understanding of healthcare regulatory codes and standards, including California Building Code (CBC).
  • Proficiency in AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical architectural leadership on healthcare projects, ensuring adherence to SHC's BIM and documentation standards.
  • Represent SHC in coordination with consultant architects, integrating user group goals into building design.
  • Coordinate with specialty teams to ensure compliant project solutions across various disciplines.
  • Support the Facilities Construction team through bidding and construction administration, maintaining design intent.
  • Manage schedules and design-phase deliverables, aligning with project budgets and constraints.
  • Prepare diagrams and presentation materials to communicate design intent to stakeholders.
  • Apply lean principles and evidence-based design concepts to inform planning decisions.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with opportunities for on-site collaboration.
  • Engagement in a landmark healthcare project with a lasting impact.
  • Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, enhancing professional growth.
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies in architectural design.
  • Opportunity to influence foundational decisions in cancer care facilities.
Full Job Description
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 owner's 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 Medicine's 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.

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.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do
  • Provide technical architectural leadership on large and small healthcare projects, performing QA/QC reviews of drawings and technical details to ensure consulting architects uphold SHC's 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 design-phase deliverables; align with Facilities Construction on project budgets, assumptions, and constraints; prepare and distribute clear, timely meeting agendas, minutes, and follow-ups.
  • 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 evidence-based design (EBD) concepts to inform planning decisions related to flows, adjacencies, materials, and finishes.
  • Independently resolve complex, multi-faceted architectural and regulatory issues, making recommendations where precedents may be limited and balancing operational, clinical, and financial impacts.
  • Lead defined design workstreams or sub-packages, assigning and reviewing work products from other staff to ensure consistency with SHC technical and quality standards.


Education Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree required. Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, or related field preferred.


Experience Qualifications
  • 5-7+ 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 low-voltage 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 multi-disciplinary 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.


Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $68.52 - $90.78 per hour

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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