Strategic Resource & Capacity Planner

Aqua Consultants Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Aqua Consultants Ltd seeks a Resource Planner in Leeds to optimise the deployment of people and skills across water & utilities projects. You will be a central link between project delivery teams, technical leads, and business leaders, providing forward-looking visibility of resource requirements and supporting workforce planning.

You will forecast demand, monitor utilisation, and support mobilisation across projects while engaging with managers to mitigate risks and ensure delivery success.

Qualifications

• Experience in resource planning, workforce planning, PMO, project controls, or consultancy operations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to interpret utilisation, capacity, and forecast data.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an integrated resource schedule covering all active projects, framework commissions, bids, and anticipated work.
• Match resource requirements with consultant skills, experience, availability, location, and development objectives.
• Identify and support the Business Unit Directors to resolve resource conflicts, competing priorities, and scheduling risks before they impact project delivery.
• Support resource planning across multidisciplinary teams including engineering, project management, environmental, digital, and commercial functions.
• Facilitate and lead weekly resource review meetings with discipline leads and project managers.
• Develop and maintain a rolling 3–6 month resource forecast to support short, medium, and long-term business planning.
• Work with project managers and business development teams to understand upcoming workload and bid activity.
• Monitor utilisation, capacity, and availability trends across the business.
• Identify future skills shortages, resource bottlenecks, and succession planning requirements and recommend actions.

Skills

Resource planning

PMO / Project controls

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

MS Excel / Power BI

Tools

MS Project

Power BI

CRM

Job description

Aqua Consultants Ltd seeks a Resource Planner in Leeds to optimise the deployment of people and skills across water & utilities projects. You will be a central link between project delivery teams, technical leads, and business leaders, providing forward-looking visibility of resource requirements and supporting workforce planning.

You will forecast demand, monitor utilisation, and support mobilisation across projects while engaging with managers to mitigate risks and ensure delivery success.