Facilities Architect

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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.

The Facilities Services division enhances health through leadership, collaboration, and innovation. Our team offers essential non-clinical support 24/7, ensuring safe operations and planning for future needs. We represent the intersection of planning, construction, general services, and facilities operations. Learn more about Facilities Services at: Facilities Services | Stanford Health Care

Cancer Center Redwood City Facilities Planning & Design is dedicated to transforming cancer care through an ambitious vision that includes expanding clinical trials, innovating treatment standards, and doubling our cancer registry. The future Redwood City Cancer Center will seamlessly integrate cutting-edge research with comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, enhancing our bench-to-bedside activities and revolutionizing patient outcomes.

If you are interested in joining Stanford Health Care, please read the job description below and apply online.

A Brief OverviewCoordinates 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.LocationsStanford Health CareWhat 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.

These principles apply to ALL employees:SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family ExperienceStanford 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

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination inall ofits policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

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.