St. Luke's Health System

The Director, Planning & Design leads the planning, design, and delivery of St. Luke’s capital construction projects, ensuring work remains aligned with strategic priorities, operational needs, and financial commitments. This role leads a team that provides oversight from early planning through construction closeout, establishing consistent delivery standards, managing risk, and ensuring projects are delivered within approved scope, schedule, and budget.  

The Director builds strong relationships with external and internal stakeholders, and provides executive‑level communication on department performance, risks, and recommendations. The ideal candidate brings demonstrated leadership experience in construction project delivery in a healthcare setting, strong financial and strategic acumen, and the ability to align strategic, long-term vision with effective daily operations within a highly complex, regulated setting.

What You Can Expect:

• Advance system strategy by identifying and deploying design and construction best practices that strengthen St. Luke’s mission, vision, and long-range growth plans.
• Lead a high-performing, centralized planning and design function, ensuring consistent standards and efficient delivery across hospitals, ambulatory sites, and emerging care models.
• Build and sustain strategic partnerships with architects, engineers, contractors, and key stakeholders to support responsible growth across urban and rural markets.
• Drive innovation in healthcare design, advancing forward-thinking solutions that enhance patient-centered care, workforce well-being, and operational effectiveness.
• Provide executive oversight of capital construction and renovation projects, ensuring delivery on scope, schedule, budget, and compliance with approved plans and regulatory standards.
• Guide site selection and feasibility assessments to support thoughtful expansion and long-term sustainability across the state.
• Develop and implement comprehensive facility master plans, translating St. Luke’s strategic directives into aligned short- and long-term capital development goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (Construction Management, Design/Architecture, Engineering preferred)

• 8 years' relevant experience (construction management/design in a healthcare environment preferred)

At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Personify Health Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.

St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.

*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.