Manager, Resource & Capacity Planning
$124,000–$168,900 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own the rolling demand-capacity forecast across 800+ active and pipeline renewable energy projects, refreshing data weekly to drive downstream financial and staffing decisions. Maintain the standard work breakdown structure and convert probability-weighted pipeline metrics into capacity demand, modeling burn and exposure by project, portfolio, discipline, and phase. Translate utilization and backlog metrics into hiring indicators, providing cost-basis inputs for proposal pricing while coordinating with Business Development on prospective project weighting. Facilitate weekly resourcing meetings to identify staffing conflicts, serve as the intake point for capacity requests, and escalate unresolved cross-functional issues through the established path. Present forecasts to executive leadership with full transparency, adjusting assumptions as new information emerges and maintaining a single trusted capacity view across CRM, project management, and timekeeping platforms.
Required Qualifications
- 5–8 years in professional services operations, resource planning, or project operations, ideally in architecture, engineering, construction, or consulting
- Demonstrated ownership of a demand-capacity or resource forecast used by leadership to make staffing and hiring decisions
- Fluency in professional services economics: fixed-fee versus time-and-materials contract structures, margin math, burn rates, and backlog quality
- Strong analytical capability, including advanced Excel, experience building models from incomplete or inconsistent data, and the ability to interpret and validate results
- Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively with executives and vice presidents, including presenting unfavorable forecasts and supporting assumptions under scrutiny
- Ability to work at both a strategic and a detailed level, moving between WBS-level accuracy and firm-level capacity planning
- Demonstrated use of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot to support analysis, automation, or reporting workflows
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, construction management, analytics, or a similar field, or equivalent applicable work experience
- Ability to keep US Mountain Time Working Hours (~9 a.m. – 5 p.m., M – F.)
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with professional services automation software (BigTime or similar), project management platforms (Teamwork, Asana, Smartsheet), or CRM systems (HubSpot, Salesforce)
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or Looker
- Experience building lightweight automations with AI assistance, such as scripts, API integrations, or data pipelines
- RMCP or similar resource management credential
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