Job Description

NBBJ is an award-winning design firm recognized as a TIME100 Most Influential Company, a Fast Company Most Innovative Architecture Firm and a two-time 2025 AIA National Honor Award recipient. These recognitions reflect our purpose-driven approach that, fueled by ideas and a culture of collaboration, creates healthy buildings, strong communities and a resilient environment. That’s where you come in. With leading clients, diverse colleagues and offices in creative capitals around the globe, a career at NBBJ will inspire you to be extraordinary. You can learn more about our firm, see what it’s like to work here and explore recent projects and ideas at NBBJ.com. Join us to make an impact today! 

The role at a glance: 

NBBJ Seattlehas an excellent opportunity for you to join our studio in an entry to intermediate Healthcare Architect / Medical Planner role. NBBJ has established a significant portfolio of Healthcare, andrelated project sector work. We are looking to strengthen our existing healthcare team and seek enthusiastic and creative people with new ideas and design and delivery innovation to expand our team, particularly with an interest and experience in Medical Architecture and Planning. 

This is an opportunity to join a fully integrated design studio where a diverse group of technical architects, interior designers, medical planners, and clinical consultants collaborate as a team from concept design through construction.   

In your new role, you will:

• Support the design and planning of hospitals and clinics  
• Work with clients to identify objectives and formulate options 
• Effectively participate in Clinical User Group meetings and client presentations 
• Collaborate with Architects, Interior Designers, and Project Managers from Concept Design through Construction 

What you will need to succeed:

• Medical architecture and planning experience on healthcare facilities from concept design through construction (entry level ~2-6 years of experience, intermediate level ~8-15 years of experience)
• Familiarity and keen interest in issues surrounding innovative healthcare design, strategic planning, and master-planning 
• Experience coordinating and facilitating client presentations and user group meetings and developing all related deliverables 
• Experience participating in in-house teams of medical planners and designers as well as coordinate with external consultants 
• Experience and detailed understanding of healthcare design process from concepts through detailed design and construction. 
• Revit skills essential 
• Excellent written, verbal and graphic communication skills 
• Proactive and independent approach to work and ownership of assigned tasks

The annual base pay range for this role is anticipated to be between $75,000 and $90,000 for entry level and $85,000 to $105,000 for intermediate level. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be carefully determined based on a number of factors, including their skills, qualifications and experience.

This role requires the individual to be based in the United States. 

We believe that all NBBJ employees should love their work. This means not only loving what you do but having pride in your workplace. We strive to be that irresistible place to work by enhancing your employee experience with customized programs and comprehensive benefits. In addition to 100% covered employee healthcare costs and 401k contributions, we offer unique professional development opportunities, volunteer opportunities and access to leading technology and resources to further help you love your work and advance your career.

• NBBJ has been named three times by Fast Company as one of the most innovative architecture firms.
• Founded in 1943, our first office opened over 75 years ago in Seattle, Washington. We now have over 10 office locations around the globe.
• We are a transdisciplinary, cross-practice focused firm with a deep portfolio of Civic & Cultural, Commercial, Corporate, Healthcare, Higher Education, Science and Technology, Sports, and Urban Environment projects. We also have several areas of service expertise including: Architecture, Environmental Graphic Design, Interior Design, Lighting Design, Workplace Consulting and more.
• In the past decade, NBBJ has received more than 300 awards from leading global, national and regional award programs across the business, real estate and design communities.
• We work with 5 of the top global high-tech companies, 14 of the U.S. News and World Report Top Hospitals, and 4 of the top 10 highest-ranked learning institutions.
• Our clients include institutional leaders such as Cambridge University, Google, Samsung, Cleveland Clinic, Tencent, and Stanford University.

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