Senior Planner, Brownfields Redevelopment

Strong communities don’t just happen. They’re thoughtfully planned and future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home.

If you’re passionate about empowering communities, join us to discover a career with endless opportunities to make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable.

Stantec is seeking a Senior Planner, Brownfields Redevelopment & Implementation to join the Infrastructure business line in Florida.

• Serve as a client-facing project manager and strategic advisor for brownfields redevelopment, revitalization, and implementation projects.

• Manage and support EPA brownfields grants, including work plans, budgets, schedules, reporting support, consultant coordination, eligible activities, and implementation tracking.

• Develop redevelopment strategies that connect land use, infrastructure, environmental conditions, market opportunities, funding sources, and community priorities.

• Help communities move projects from visioning and planning into actionable implementation steps, including funding pursuits, partner coordination, site readiness, and next-phase project delivery.

• Coordinate with environmental, planning, economic development, engineering, landscape architecture, funding, and design professionals to advance redevelopment outcomes.

• Lead or support community engagement, stakeholder interviews, public meetings, workshops, and presentations for municipal clients, redevelopment agencies, community partners, and public/private stakeholders.

• Proactively identify project risks, scope issues, schedule concerns, decision points, and opportunities to maintain momentum and keep projects moving forward.

• Mentor and direct junior team members, including delegating tasks, reviewing work products, and helping staff understand project goals, client expectations, and implementation priorities.

• Communicate effectively with clients and project teams to resolve project issues, present findings and recommendations, and deliver services that support client goals.

• Manage work within defined scopes, budgets, schedules, and quality expectations.

• Perform other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.

• Experience managing or supporting brownfields redevelopment, community revitalization, economic development, planning, or implementation projects for public or private sector clients.

• Experience managing or supporting EPA Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup, Revolving Loan Fund, Multipurpose, Coalition, or related federal/state grant programs.

• Understanding of EPA brownfields grant implementation, including cooperative agreement work plans, budgets, reporting, ACRES support, site eligibility, community engagement, and coordination with environmental assessment and cleanup activities.

• Ability to translate complex environmental, funding, planning, economic development, and redevelopment issues into clear recommendations for clients, elected officials, community stakeholders, and project partners.

• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, maintain schedules and budgets, and drive work toward actionable outcomes.

• Ability to facilitate workshops and public and stakeholder input both virtually and in person.

• Effective communicator who can build trusted client relationships, lead teams, and present information in a clear, professional, and approachable manner.

• Proactive, organized, and comfortable guiding projects through ambiguity while maintaining momentum across multiple partners, disciplines, and decision points.

• Ability to solve complex problems using sound professional judgment, creativity, and innovation.

• Working knowledge of relevant planning, mapping, graphic, or communication tools such as GIS, Sketch Up, Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, or similar software is a plus but not required.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Science, Public Administration, Economic Development, Urban Studies, Landscape Architecture, or a related field.

• AICP, PLA, or similar professional certification is preferred.

• 8+ years of related experience in brownfields redevelopment, environmental planning, community…