Senior Planner

Strong communities don’t just happen they’re built. They are creatively imagined, collaboratively planned, and readied to face tomorrow with optimism. We are driving the future of Community Development. Our experts lead their fields, collaborating on projects that are as technically challenging as they are impactful, creative, and fulfilling. We are a place where you can apply your passion—and find endless opportunities to help make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable. Join the team where we are not just designing and shaping communities – but expanding and refining what’s possible for them.

Your Opportunity

Stantec’s Community Development team is growing in Atlantic Canada and we are leading an increasing amount number of exciting planning and development projects with multi-disciplinary and integrated service offerings. This includes projects in the private and public sectors such as redevelopment plans, new community and town center plans, housing studies, streetscape and infrastructure projects, and a variety of urban planning related projects. We are seeking a Senior Planner within our Community Development team ideally based in our Moncton, Halifax, Fredericton, or Charlottetown offices. The role spans a broad range of disciplines and would suit an individual with strong design background in urban, regional, and rural planning and design. A background in urban design or landscape architecture would also be considered a valuable asset. Your focus in this role will be ensuring consistent and high-quality deliverables and bringing your subject matter expertise to inform and offer value to our clients. As a 32,000-person interdisciplinary firm, the business and career opportunities within Stantec are extensive. While part of this larger team, your work will primarily be based within a collaborative planning and design team serving our Atlantic Canadian market.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Planning and design tasks: development of preliminary concepts into workable and approvable plans including collaboration with lead designers, engaging with other disciplines, client interaction, design analysis and statistics, proof of concept analysis, and guidance of design rationale across a project team.

• Reporting tasks: writing and contributing to design briefs, reports, and presentations in support of project reviews and approvals.

• Graphic tasks: production of diagrams in support of urban design/planning tasks. Ability to support/prepare 3D views, sketches, renderings and models in design programs such as SketchUp, Lumion, etc. would be considered an asset.

• Support complex and comprehensive planning and development projects, including municipal plan reviews, master planning, development applications, active transportation planning, development applications, redevelopment and neighborhood plans and strategies, and municipal policy projects from a planning and urban design perspective.

• Community consultations: Lead and support various virtual and in-person public engagement activities for project and business development related work.

• Support business development and marketing initiatives including strategic planning, opportunity identification, proposal pursuit and preparation, client liaison, preparation of on-line marketing content and social media monitoring.

• Maintain and strengthen client relationships and play a key role in client management and satisfaction.

• Interface directly with clients and provide clear, well-articulated and solution-oriented recommendations; and

• Demonstrate active coaching skills when interacting with other team members.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Ability to action and deliver design projects with a high level of independence.

• Comprehensive understanding of planning and urban design principles specifically as it relates to urban, regional, and rural planning and placemaking, climate change and resilience, emerging innovations, and development economics.

• Strong understanding and working knowledge of built form typologies, building structures and requirements, parking, vertical circulation, and general construction methods for mixed-use, residential and commercial uses.

• Strong communication, negotiation, interpersonal and time management skills with the ability to function in a high volume, challenging environment. The ability to communicate in French is considered an asset.

• Experience engaging with, and presenting before clients, Planning Advisory and Design Review Committees, and Planning Commissions and Councils.

• Project budgeting, time, and workflow management skills an asset.

• Highly effective in collaborating on multi-discipline teams on complex projects.

• Able to proactively identify potential problems and risks and to develop and articulate potential solutions, explorations and innovations, particularly in client meetings and engagement.

• Highly effective in building and maintaining client relationships.

• Strong skills in Microsoft Office.

• Experience with the Adobe Creative Suite, CAD, SketchUp, and other creative applications is considered an asset.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent experience in Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, and/or Landscape Architecture with a minimum 8 years of experience.

• A Registered Professional Planner (RPP) or Licensed Professional Planner (LPP) designation or eligibility to obtain such a designation. 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. Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

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) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, 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 time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

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: Canada | NS | Dartmouth
Organization: BC-1604 CommDev-CA Ottawa ON
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 17/06/2025 02:06:27
Req ID: REQ25000110