Health Planner

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a Healthcare Planner to join our Houston studio. This role is ideal for a planner who brings both strategic thinking and a strong understanding of clinical operations to complex healthcare environments.

Working within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, you will lead planning efforts or play a key role, depending on project scale and complexity. You will work across a range of project types - from community hospitals and ambulatory care centers to large academic medical campuses - partnering closely with clients, clinicians, and internal teams to translate operational goals into efficient, adaptable, and future-ready healthcare environments, including work within active hospital settings and across system-wide initiatives.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead planning efforts for key departments or project components across multiple healthcare projects 
• Facilitate clinical user group meetings and stakeholder workshops, building alignment across diverse teams 
• Translate clinical workflows, volumes, and operational goals into functional layouts and planning strategies 
• Develop space programs, adjacency diagrams, and departmental planning concepts 
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and consultants to integrate planning with design and building systems 
• Support campus, prototype, and system-level master planning initiatives 
• Guide projects through healthcare regulatory and code requirements 
• Contribute to design solutions that enhance patient experience, staff wellbeing, and operational performance 
• Participate in client presentations, interviews, and project pursuits 
• Mentor and support the professional growth of emerging healthcare planners

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Minimum of 10 years of healthcare planning experience, including hospital and/or ambulatory care projects 
• Strong understanding of clinical operations, departmental relationships, and patient flow
• Experience leading user group meetings and building consensus among diverse stakeholders 
• Experience working on hospital renovations, phased construction, or projects within active healthcare environments 
• Interest in contributing to or developing health system standards, prototypes, or system-wide planning strategies 
• Familiarity with implementing healthcare codes and guidelines 
• Ability to move seamlessly between strategic planning and detailed execution
• Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills 
• Proficiency in Revit, Bluebeam and other planning/visualization tools preferred