Principal Planning & Design Engineer - Oakland, CA

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for applying knowledge of engineering principals, practices, and systems and hospital-specific engineering policies, regulations, and practices to prepare and/or review drawings, plans, specifications, costs estimates, and reports for new construction, refurbishment work, and other structures; preparing and/or reviewing life-cycle analysis and business cases related to engineered systems; preparing and/or reviewing engineering analysis and research for medical facility projects and programs; providing feedback, review, and critique to senior engineers and project engineers; developing templates and standards for engineering designs; researching, challenging, and developing engineering policies and practices; generalizing lessons-learned into standard practices and assessing the legitimacy of deviations from standard practices for discreet applications; validating and reporting on engineered system outcomes and values-delivered; leading and facilitating resolution of issues with more than one involved party are competent and experienced subject matter experts; reviewing codes and standards for recommended adoption, provide public comment to regulatory bodies; and participating in state and national code and standard development with regulatory and industry groups.

• 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.