Senior Planner
Listed on 2026-01-01
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Design & Architecture
Environmental/ Urban Planning
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 Sketch Up, 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…
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