Strategic Capacity Planner: Workforce Forecasting

Construction Association of Michigan; Plymouth, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

i2G is seeking a Capacity Planning Manager in Plymouth, MI to lead a rolling 36-month labor demand forecast, align staffing with contracts, and manage a trade school/apprenticeship pipeline. The role emphasizes analytical planning, capacity analytics, and partnerships with Talent Acquisition to optimize staffing strategies.

The position focuses on balancing skill mix, capacity planning, and external partnerships, ensuring forecast accuracy and strategic staffing decisions across markets.

Qualifications

• Five or more years in workforce planning, resource planning, operations planning, or financial planning and analysis within a labor-driven services business.
• Demonstrated experience converting a project or sales backlog into a labor forecast, and holding that forecast against changing commercial reality.
• Strong quantitative modeling capability. Advanced Excel required, including scenario modeling and large data sets.
• Experience partnering across operations leadership and talent acquisition, with the credibility to challenge both.
• A track record of holding forecast discipline with stakeholders who are reluctant to commit to dates.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Experience in low-voltage, electronic security, fire, life safety, or building systems.
• Familiarity with project accounting and percentage-of-completion revenue recognition.
• Exposure to state and local licensing or registration requirements in the field trades.
• Experience building or managing trade school, technical college or apprenticeship partnerships, including influencing curriculum and measuring program output.
• Proficiency with Power BI, Tableau or a comparable visualization tool.
• Bachelor's degree in business, operations, supply chain, industrial engineering, finance, analytics or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a rolling 36 month labor demand forecast built from the approved budget, the signed contract backlog and the weighted sales pipeline.
• Convert each award into a staffing requirement: role, grade or skill level, quantity, location and need-by date.
• Track contract signature status against forecasted starts. Adjust need-by dates as contracts sign, slip or cancel, and communicate each change within an agreed service level.
• Distinguish growth demand from attrition backfill and maintain a separate view of each.
• Own the requisition hold list: what is on hold, why, who owns the release, and the expected release date.

Skills

Workforce planning

Forecasting

Quantitative modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Forecasting accuracy

Apprenticeship partnerships

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, operations, supply chain, industrial engineering, finance, analytics or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

i2G is seeking a Capacity Planning Manager in Plymouth, MI to lead a rolling 36-month labor demand forecast, align staffing with contracts, and manage a trade school/apprenticeship pipeline. The role emphasizes analytical planning, capacity analytics, and partnerships with Talent Acquisition to optimize staffing strategies.

The position focuses on balancing skill mix, capacity planning, and external partnerships, ensuring forecast accuracy and strategic staffing decisions across markets.