Senior Regional Planner - Community Development

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.

Your Opportunity

As a Senior Regional Planner in our Community Development practice, you’ll take a leading role in guiding the long‑range vision for communities throughout Central Texas and beyond. You’ll work on meaningful, high‑impact projects—comprehensive plans, mobility strategies, sustainable development frameworks, defense community planning, and more.

This is an opportunity to step into a strategic leadership role where you will influence decisions, strengthen client relationships, and help grow one of Stantec’s most collaborative and forward‑thinking planning teams.

If you thrive at the intersection of design, policy, community, and strategy, you’ll feel right at home here.

Your Key Responsibilities

Lead & Grow

• Drive key business development efforts and help secure high‑profile pursuits.
• Mentor and inspire emerging planners and designers.
• Foster a collaborative, interdisciplinary culture across planning, landscape architecture, mobility, and resilience teams.

Engage Clients

• Serve as a trusted advisor to public- and private-sector clients.
• Build lasting relationships through thoughtful communication, responsiveness, and leadership.

Shape Great Places

• Direct multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex, impactful planning projects.
• Provide strategic guidance on land use, zoning, mobility, resilience, and sustainable community development.
• Oversee the creation of compelling planning documents, policy reports, and urban design studies.

Connect With Communities

• Lead inclusive engagement processes that elevate local voices and broaden participation.
• Translate technical analyses into clear, actionable, and inspiring recommendations for diverse audiences.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• AICP or related certification strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams on large, complex projects.
• Expertise in comprehensive planning, mobility, transit‑oriented development (TOD), and resilience.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Proficiency in GIS and Adobe Creative Suite; familiarity with emerging planning tools and technologies.
• Spanish language skills highly desirable.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 8 years of planning and project management experience.

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.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

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) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, 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 family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

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: United States | TX | San Antonio

Organization: 1720 CommDev-US Southwest-San Antonio TX

Employee Status: Regular

Business Justification: New Position

Travel: Yes

Schedule: Full time

Job Posting: 21/01/2026 07:01:58

Req ID: 1003822

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