Healthcare Planning Lead — Strategy & Operations

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