Job DescriptionYour OpportunityStantec 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
QualificationsYour Capabilities and Credentials- 5-12 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
Education and Experience- Master's degree in Architecture or bachelor's degree in support of licensure criteria required
- Registered Architect preferred
- EDAC & LEED Accreditation preferred
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.
