Job Description: Senior Capacity Planning Manager

Location: Head Office, Units 1-6, Old Station, Higham, Bury St Edmunds

Reporting to: Senior Supply Chain Manager

Direct Reports: Resource and Planning Manger

Responsible for: Capacity planning and workforce forecasting across field delivery and subcontract supply chain

 The Company 

 The Company Aran Insulation, part of AgilityEco, is an award-winning, industry leading organisation striving to improve energy efficiency of homes throughout the UK. Passionate about improving quality of life and cost of living, the company’s goal is to reduce carbon emissions of UK households. A dynamic company going through a growth and development period. Aran Insulation is committed to developing its staff through training and progression, giving them the tools and opportunities to excel.

The Senior Capacity Planning Manager is responsible for ensuring the company has the operational capacity required to deliver current and future programme volumes across its operating regions.

The role will lead forward resource planning and capacity forecasting, working closely with operational leadership and supply chain teams to ensure sufficient installation capability exists across the companies delivery network.

The position will monitor workforce utilisation across both direct delivery teams and subcontract supply chains, ensuring resources are deployed effectively and efficiently.

The role will also identify skills shortages, training requirements and capability gaps, supporting the development of training programmes and workforce development initiatives to strengthen operational capacity.

Working closely with the Senior Supply Chain Manager, Head of Field Delivery, Design & Coordination teams and senior leadership, the Senior Capacity Planning Manager will ensure that Aran maintains a scalable and resilient delivery capability.
 
 Key Requirements

·         Develop and maintain forward capacity forecasts aligned with programme delivery pipelines

·         Monitor anticipated workload across operational regions and delivery streams

·         Identify potential resource constraints and capacity shortfalls in advance of programme delivery

·         Support operational planning for new programmes and contract mobilisation

Resource Utilisation

·         Monitor utilisation levels across both direct labour teams and subcontract delivery partners

·         Ensure operational resources are deployed efficiently across programmes

·         Identify opportunities to improve workforce utilisation and operational productivity

·         Work closely with operational leadership to forecast future workforce requirements

·         Support recruitment planning where additional operational capacity is required

·         Ensure workforce planning aligns with programme delivery timelines

·         Identify skills gaps across the delivery workforce and subcontract supply chain

·         Support development of training plans and capability improvement initiatives

·         Work with training and compliance teams to ensure field teams maintain required competencies

·         Work closely with the Head of Field Delivery and Senior Contracts Managers to understand operational requirements

·         Coordinate planning activities with the Senior Supply Chain Manager and supply chain teams

·         Ensure supply chain resource planning aligns with delivery forecasts

Monitor operational performance data relating to:

·         Workforce utilisation

·         Installation capacity

·         Delivery volumes

·         Regional capacity constraints

Provide insights and recommendations to support operational decision-making

·         Develop and refine capacity planning processes and tools

·         Improve forecasting accuracy and resource planning methodologies

·         Support development of systems that improve operational visibility of resource capacity

·         Experience in operational planning, workforce planning or resource management

·         Experience working within construction, retrofit, utilities or field-based operational sectors

·         Strong analytical and organisational skills

·         Ability to interpret operational data and develop practical planning solutions

·         Strong communication skills and ability to work across multiple teams

Essential

1.      Experience in workforce planning, operational planning or supply chain resource management

2.      Strong analytical and planning capability

3.      Experience within retrofit, construction or utilities sectors

Desirable

·         Experience using operational planning systems or data tools

·         Understanding of retrofit programme delivery environments

This is a description of the job as it is constituted at the date shown. It is the practice of Aran Insulation Limited to periodically review Job Descriptions to ensure they relate to the job performed, or to incorporate any proposed changes. 

Aran Insulation Limited is fully committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all areas of our business including the appointment of staff. We ensure that applicants who meet our shortlisting criteria are invited to our recruitment process.   

Due to the nature of our work, we undertake criminal record checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service for all successful applicants, and periodically thereafter.  Should an applicant not satisfy our background checks any conditional offer of employment or employment may be withdrawn. 

The Senior Capacity Planning Manager will be based at the Aran Insulation Head office Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, however on occasions it will be required to work outside these hours and away from the head office. Staff are required to attend occasional training courses, conferences and meetings that may necessitate staying away from home overnight.