Project Consultant

About the Role

Nexa Health Consult is building a multidisciplinary healthcare consulting team to support hospitals, healthcare providers, and healthcare infrastructure projects across India. We invite applications from experienced professionals with a long-term commitment to healthcare transformation, quality improvement, safe facility design, and operational excellence.

Roles Available

• Project Consultant — Hospital Operations Management
• Lead or support hospital operational transformation projects, including departmental workflows, capacity planning, patient flow, resource utilisation, cost optimisation, and service-line improvement.
• Conduct onsite operational assessments, prepare gap analyses, implement improvement plans, and support hospital leadership teams.
• Develop SOPs, KPIs, dashboards, review mechanisms, staffing norms, and operational governance frameworks.
• Coordinate with clinical, nursing, administrative, finance, procurement, and support-service teams.
• Project Consultant — Quality & Patient Safety
• Design and implement hospital quality-management systems, patient-safety programmes, incident reporting, root-cause analysis, clinical audit, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support hospitals in establishing quality committees, safety culture, infection-prevention practices, medication-safety systems, and measurable quality indicators.
• Train hospital teams on quality tools, patient-safety standards, documentation, and corrective and preventive action planning.
• Conduct onsite assessments, audits, and implementation reviews.
• Project Consultant — Accreditation & Compliance (JCI/NABH)
• Lead or support hospital readiness programmes for NABH, JCI, and other applicable accreditation or regulatory frameworks.
• Conduct gap assessments, documentation reviews, tracer audits, mock surveys, and corrective-action planning.
• Guide hospitals in policy and SOP development, committee structures, quality indicators, credentialing, facility-safety compliance, and survey preparedness.
• Support implementation of accreditation recommendations and sustained compliance after assessment.
• Project Consultant — Hospital Architecture & Healthcare Planning
• Support hospital feasibility studies, master planning, functional programming, departmental zoning, and clinical/non-clinical space planning.
• Develop or review hospital layouts that optimise patient flow, staff movement, infection-control requirements, accessibility, safety, future expansion, and operational efficiency.
• Coordinate medical planning with hospital operations, clinical teams, medical-equipment planners, MEP consultants, structural consultants, and statutory approval processes.
• Prepare or review concept plans, schematic designs, departmental layouts, area statements, and design briefs aligned with applicable healthcare norms and project requirements.
• Support design reviews for new hospital projects, expansions, renovations, and retrofit assignments.
• Project Consultant — Hospital MEP (Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing)
• Review, plan, or coordinate MEP design and implementation for hospitals and healthcare facilities, including HVAC, electrical systems, backup power, earthing, plumbing, water supply, drainage, sewage/wastewater management, fire detection and suppression, and building-management systems.
• Support planning and coordination of medical gas pipeline systems, medical equipment interfaces, IT/low-voltage systems, pneumatic tube systems, and other hospital-specific engineering requirements.
• Conduct technical due diligence, design reviews, load assessments, system audits, and commissioning support for healthcare projects.
• Ensure coordination between architectural, structural, medical-planning, equipment, and MEP teams to avoid clashes, rework, and operational inefficiencies.
• Support compliance with applicable building codes, fire and life-safety norms, infection-control considerations, energy-efficiency requirements, and healthcare facility standards.

Key Expectations

• Candidates should have relevant experience in hospital operations, healthcare quality, patient safety, accreditation, hospital architecture/healthcare planning, or healthcare MEP design and project coordination.
• Strong analytical, documentation, stakeholder-management, design-review, training, and project-implementation skills are essential.
• The roles require onsite visits to client hospitals, project sites, and healthcare facilities anywhere in India, as and when required. Candidates must be willing and able to travel extensively.
• Professionals should be comfortable working independently, managing multiple assignments, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, meeting deliverable timelines, and maintaining confidentiality and professional ethics.

Engagement Structure

• The initial engagement will be on a purely contractual/project basis.
• The contractual engagement may initially be for a defined project period, assignment, milestone, or deliverable-based scope, subject to the terms of the individual engagement agreement.
• Onboarding into a full-time employment relationship with Nexa Health Pvt Ltd may be considered after 3–6 months from the date of beginning of the project, subject to business requirements, financial stabilisation of the company, satisfactory performance, and mutual agreement.

How to Apply

Interested candidates may share their updated CV, portfolio/project list where applicable, current location, notice/availability period, expected professional fee or compensation, and a brief note on relevant hospital projects handled, to: [email protected]

Subject line: Application — Project Consultant — [Hospital Operations / Quality & Safety / JCI-NABH / Hospital Architecture & Healthcare Planning / Hospital MEP]

Location: Noida, with pan-India travel as required.

Engagement type: Contractual initially; potential transition to employment after 3–6 months, subject to company requirements and mutual agreement.