Senior Project Manager - Healthcare

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Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

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Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our Healthcare Buildings Practice. This leadership role is responsible for managing a portfolio of healthcare projects and serving as a trusted advisor to clients, project teams, and practice leadership. The successful candidate will provide strategic oversight across multiple projects, ensuring delivery excellence while achieving client satisfaction, financial performance, quality objectives, and risk management goals.

As a senior leader within the practice, you will oversee multidisciplinary teams throughout the entire project lifecycle, from pursuit and planning through design, construction, and closeout. You will play a key role in portfolio planning, resource management, client development, and mentoring project management staff while partnering closely with Principals-in-Charge and Operations leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary portfolio manager for a diverse portfolio of healthcare projects, providing oversight of project performance, client relationships, and delivery outcomes.

• Lead multidisciplinary teams to successfully deliver projects that meet client expectations for scope, budget, schedule, quality, and design excellence.

• Maintain executive-level relationships with healthcare clients and act as a trusted advisor throughout project delivery.

• Monitor portfolio financial performance, including revenue forecasting, project profitability, work-in-progress, invoicing, collections, and resource utilization.

• Develop and oversee project budgets, schedules, staffing plans, and risk management strategies across multiple projects simultaneously.

• Partner with Principals-in-Charge and Practice Leaders to align project delivery with business objectives and client account strategies.

• Support project pursuits, fee proposals, contract negotiations, and project planning activities to position projects for successful execution.

• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks, staffing challenges, scope changes, and contractual issues that may impact performance.

• Lead client presentations, executive meetings, and project reviews while maintaining strong communication with all stakeholders.

• Collaborate with Operations and Discipline Leaders to balance workload, allocate resources, and optimize project team performance.

• Champion Stantec's Project Management Framework and quality management processes across the portfolio.

• Mentor Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers, fostering professional development and succession planning within the practice.

• Oversee project reporting and ensure timely communication of project status, risks, financial performance, and key decisions to leadership.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance project delivery, client satisfaction, and operational efficiency.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex portfolios consisting of multiple concurrent healthcare projects and project teams.

• Strong client management and relationship-building skills with experience serving major healthcare systems and institutional clients.

• Proven track record of delivering projects that achieve financial, schedule, and quality objectives.

• Strong understanding of healthcare project delivery, including planning, design, construction administration, and regulatory requirements.

• Experience overseeing project managers and mentoring emerging project management professionals.

• Skilled in portfolio planning, resource management, forecasting, and financial performance monitoring.

• Exceptional leadership, communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.

• Thorough understanding of accessibility codes, life-safety codes, healthcare regulations, building systems, and industry standards.

• Experience with California healthcare projects and HCAI requirements preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining attention to detail and client service excellence.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, project management systems, and collaboration platforms; experience with Newforma, Revit, and related design technologies is preferred.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Architecture or a related field.

California architectural license preferred; professional licensure strongly desired.

Minimum 15 years of experience in healthcare project delivery and project management.

Experience managing acute care hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, medical office buildings, behavioral health facilities, or other regulated healthcare environments.

LEED Green Associate, LEED AP, PMP, DBIA, or similar professional credentials are a plus.

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 Range

• Locations in CO, HI, IL, MD & Various CA, CT, NJ, VA Areas-$113,400.00 - $170,200.00 Annually
• Locations in NYC & Various CA, CT, NJ Areas-$129,900.00 - $194,900.00 Annually

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 | CA | San Francisco

Other Locations: United States | CA | Sacramento

Organization: 2014 Buildings-US California AID-San Francisco CA

Employee Status: Regular

Management Level: Individual contributor

Business Justification: New Position

Travel: Yes

Schedule: Full time

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.