Highlights
This role serves as a subject matter expert and strategic advisor to clinical leadership, facilities, IT, supply chain, and design/construction teams to ensure equipment solutions align with clinical workflows, regulatory requirements, operational efficiency, and long-term organizational goals. The Senior Healthcare Medical Equipment Planner is responsible for leading the planning, specification, budgeting, procurement coordination, and implementation of medical equipment for complex healthcare capital projects.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chesterfield, MO |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1986 |
| Website | https://www.mercy.net/ |
Description
Find your calling at Mercy!
The Senior Healthcare Medical Equipment Planner is responsible for leading the planning, specification, budgeting, procurement coordination, and implementation of medical equipment for complex healthcare capital projects. This role serves as a subject matter expert and strategic advisor to clinical leadership, facilities, IT, supply chain, and design/construction teams to ensure equipment solutions align with clinical workflows, regulatory requirements, operational efficiency, and long-term organizational goals.
This position typically supports new hospitals, major renovations, ambulatory facilities, and technology refresh initiatives and may oversee junior planners or consultants.
Position Details:
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Engineering, Architecture, Nursing, Biomedical Engineering, or related field
(Master's degree preferred)
5+ years of progressive experience in healthcare medical equipment planning, capital projects, or clinical technology management
Proven experience leading equipment planning for large‑scale healthcare projects (acute care hospitals, specialty centers, or system‑wide programs)
Strong understanding of:
Clinical workflows and care delivery models
Medical equipment infrastructure requirements
Healthcare regulatory and accreditation standards
Demonstrated ability to manage complex budgets and multidisciplinary teams
Preferred Certifications & Skills
- Certified Healthcare Constructor (CHC)
- Certified Clinical Engineer (CCE) or equivalent
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Lean, Six Sigma, or value‑based design experience
- Proficiency with equipment planning tools and databases (e.g., equipment tracking, BIM coordination, spreadsheets)
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and executive‑level presentation skills
Core Competencies
- Strategic thinking and problem solving
- Clinical credibility and stakeholder engagement
- Financial acumen and cost control
- Detail oriented with big picture perspective
- Leadership, mentorship, and influence without authority
- Ability to thrive in fast paced, complex project environments
Why Mercy?
From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us.
About Company
Our Mercy health system was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1986. But our heritage goes back more than 185 years. It began with an Irish woman named Catherine McAuley, who wanted to help the poor women and children of Dublin. Though Catherine had a modest upbringing, she received an unexpected inheritance that allowed her to fulfill her dreams. In 1827, she opened the first House of Mercy in Dublin, intending to teach skills to poor women and educate children. Many volunteers came to help. A few years later, Catherine founded the Sisters of Mercy, the first religious order not bound to the rules of the cloister, whose Sisters were free to walk among the poor and visit them in their homes. By the time Catherine died in 1841, there were convents in Ireland and England, and in 1843, the Sisters of Mercy came to the United States. In 1871, they traveled to St. Louis and from there throughout the Midwest, beginning what would, today be known as Mercy.
Mercy, named one of the top five large U.S. health systems in 2018, 2017 and 2016 by IBM Watson Health, serves millions annually. Mercy includes more than 40 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, 800 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 44,000 co-workers and 2,100 Mercy Clinic physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In addition, Mercy's IT division, Mercy Technology Services, supply chain organization, ROi, and Mercy Virtual commercially serve providers and patients in more than 20 states coast to coast.