Behavioral Health Planner / Design Expert

Behavioral Health Planner / Design Expert

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Behavioral Health Planner / Design Expert

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DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Behavioral Health Planner / Designer to join DLR Group's Justice + Civic national practice. In this role, you will lead the planning and design of facilities that promote healing, equity, and transformation through behavioral health-focused design solutions. DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home. DLR Group has a network of 30+ studios across the United States. For this role, we encourage exceptional applicants across the ecosystem.

About Justice + Civic at DLR Group

As a nationally recognized expert in Justice + Civic facility planning and design, DLR Group serves municipal, county, state, and federal public-sector clients to deliver civic, public safety, and justice design solutions that achieve excellence in operations, sustainable design, resilience planning, space planning, building assessment, cost of ownership analysis, and project management. Behavioral health facility planning and design is a growing specialty in our portfolio. As stewards of the built environment, DLR Group's Justice + Civic practice elevates behavioral, environmental, and social betterment, resulting in healing, equity, and transformation for the individual and community.

What You Will Do

• Collaboratively work with integrated teams of architects, engineers and specialty consultants
• Lead preliminary planning and design for behavioral health facilities within community, justice and civic environments
• Create functional layouts integrating therapeutic design principles, de-escalation strategies, and security requirements
• Develop evidence-based design solutions to support mental health treatment, recovery and reintegration
• Design adult crisis, sobering, substance use and residential treatment centers
• Ensure designs promote client and staff safety while maintaining a therapeutic environment
• Apply sustainable design practices and WELL building standards to behavioral health spaces
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate specialized security and safety features
• Integrate trauma informed design strategies
• Design spaces that balance clinical requirements with trauma-informed care principles
• Conduct facility assessments and develop programming recommendations
• Create detailed space planning documentation and design guidelines
• Lead stakeholder engagement sessions and facilitate design workshops
• Provide technical expertise on behavioral health design standards and best practices
• Support cost estimation and phasing strategies for behavioral health implementations
• Develop post-occupancy evaluation criteria for behavioral health spaces
• Mentor team members on behavioral health design principles
• Contribute to research initiatives and thought leadership in justice behavioral health design

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is :

Pay Range

$140,000 - $170,000 USD

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned : every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / M / F / Veteran / Disabled employer.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Other

Industries

Architecture and Planning

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