Design Manager - Facilities Planning & Design - Oakland, CA

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Design Manager – Facilities Planning & Design to lead efficient, high-quality, and cost-effective design delivery across capital projects. The role coordinates planning and design, project management, operational stakeholders, and external consultants while managing project scope, budgets, schedules, design deliverables, standards, and risks from initiation through construction documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others
• Directs planning and design projects by: using judgment and discretion to define issues and develop solutions to resolve complex problems for the capital program; coordinating the communication network between the project team and other internal personnel across the organization and external contacts; and researching, recommending, and training teams and consultants on strategies and concepts to provide expert strategic guidance, coordination, and management of the support teams area of expertise
• Supports NFS program deliverables by: managing multiplecomplex National Facilities Services (NFS) projects and initiatives with responsibility and accountability for project outcomes from initiation through design phase with minimal oversight from senior management; developing, analyzing, and managing complex project plans which include scope identification and management, schedule, inter-dependencies, and resource forecast; monitoring overall project performance (e.g., on time, within scope, and with quality) against plans, ensuring measurement of business benefits and outcomes, and makes adjustments as needed; leading project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project; and driving allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure established practices are in place
• Contributes to consultants relationship management by: driving the application of strategies and concepts to provide technical guidance, coordination, coaching, and project-level supervision to designers/drafters/engineers/consultants/architects/planners; obtaining advanced research knowledge on building codes and materials from vendor and applying strategies for implementation; and identifying incremental process improvements that increase efficiency and effectiveness of vendor assessment
• Provides oversight for compliance by: leading other internal teams to ensure the enterprise facilities design standards development to ensure quality solutions

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Architecture, Engineering (e.g., Electrical, Mechanical, Structural, etc.), Planning (e.g., Space Planning), Interior Design, Construction Management, Cost Estimating, or related field AND minimum eight (8) years of experience in planning, architectural, design, engineering, CADD, hospital/medical facility, healthcare planning, construction estimating, or a directly related field OR Minimum eleven (11) years of experience in planning, architectural, design, engineering, CADD, hospital/medical facility, health and safety administration/management, construction estimating, or a directly related field
• EDAC Certification
• LEED Accredited