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.