Health Planner

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world. Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design. Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Your Opportunity

The Healthcare Planner’s role is to collaborate with the design team and Owner to resolve and implement distinguished design concepts that make lives better. This role will work with general guidance and direction from a Senior Health Planner or Project Manager. You will support all aspects of the project process from validation/pre-design, medical planning, schematics, design development through construction documentation and construction administration within Acute Care and Ambulatory Care Health projects. Along with your Project Manager or Senior Health Planner, you may support multiple projects at any time, within various phases of design and construction.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Participate in making key decisions regarding healthcare planning and design of hospital and clinics of significant complexity and size as an integral member of the planning and design team.
• On projects of medium complexity &/or size, responsible for leading others in project team setting and effectively participate in Clinical User Group meetings and client presentations
• Participate and coordinate with the team to produce deliverables reflecting the design team’s planning and design recommendations and client expectations relative to approved program and budget
• Inspires creativity, critical thought and design excellence both internally and externally.
• Conceptualizes a building’s medical planning design from both a functional and aesthetic perspective in concert with a client’s requirements, budget, and program.
• Develops medical planning design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats to express the design intent and communicate to project team, client, and building user groups.
• Utilizes BIM technologies in development of three-dimensional models of buildings and their components.
• Presents the medical planning design or technical information with the Project Manager / Lead Healthcare Medical Planner to stakeholders during early project phases. Develops medical planning design in accordance with cost parameters.
• Evaluates and selects building systems and materials.
• Coordinates building systems to ensure compatibility with the design intent.
• Implements sustainable design principles into the design and environment.
• Ensures that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction.
• Reviews shop drawings and submittals, responds to RFIs, prepares site observation reports and other contract administration tasks.
  
  

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Familiarity and keen interest in issues surrounding innovative healthcare design, strategic planning, and master-planning
• Must be curious and strategically oriented; and possess analytical thinking skills
• Engage in creative and critical thought.
• Strong oral communication/presentation, graphics, writing, and public speaking skills with the ability to facilitate meetings with clients/ users
• Produce technical designs at a level that would be perceived externally as excellent.
• Hand sketch and communicate concepts and ideas to others effectively.
• Participate in project team setting.
• Check work of others for accuracy and completeness and manage team to meet project budget and schedule.
• Interpret sketches, drawings, codes, building program and other similar material.
• Present abstract and technical ideas to the client and client representatives.
• Apply accessibility codes, applicable building codes, and life-safety codes to a wide variety of project scopes and complexity.
• General knowledge of building construction systems, constructability, materials, and industry associated standards.
• General understanding of the relationship between drawings and specifications.
• Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite, Revit.
• Possess a valid driver's license with a good driving record.
• Ability to travel up to 25% is desired.
  
  

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture or related field.
• Licensure, or working to obtain licensure preferred, but not required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience
  
  

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

Pay Range

• Locations in CO, HI, IL, MD & Various CA, NJ Areas-$94,300.00 - $136,700.00 Annually
  
  

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Primary Location: United States | CO | Denver

Organization: 4003 Buildings-US ACQ PSP Colorado A&ID-Denver CO

Employee Status: Regular

Business Justification: New Position

Travel: Yes

Schedule: Full time

Job Posting: 30/01/2026 06:01:50

Req ID: 1003885

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.