Director of Planning - Construction

GeoStabilization International (GSI), Access Limited, and RoadGuard together form a leading infrastructure solutions platform dedicated to protecting people and strengthening critical infrastructure across North America and New Zealand. GSI is the premier geohazard mitigation firm specializing in emergency slope stabilization, landslide repair, grouting, and micropiles through innovative design-build delivery. Access Limited brings over a century of steep-slope expertise and operates North America’s largest fleet of spider excavators, delivering complex rockfall and geotechnical solutions in the most challenging environments. RoadGuard, founded in 2024, unites industry-leading roadway safety companies providing guardrail, bridge railing, highway signage, fencing, and specialty fabrication services. Across all our businesses, we are driven by innovation, extreme ownership, technical excellence, and a relentless commitment to measurable results that improve safety and infrastructure resilience. The Director of Workforce Planning & Capacity Management is responsible for establishing and leading GSI's demand forecasting, workforce planning, and equipment capacity management functions. This role serves as the strategic bridge between Operations, Sales, and the Center of Excellence to ensure the organization has the right people, equipment, and support resources available to meet current and future customer demand. Reporting directly to the Vice President of the Center of Excellence, this leader will build and develop a team of regional planners responsible for forecasting regional workload, assessing resource capacity, and balancing labor and equipment requirements across the Geo Tech businesses. The Director will lead the design and implementation of planning processes, operating rhythms, metrics, and planning technology that provide visibility into future demand and enable proactive resource decisions. This position is accountable for creating planning capability that identifies capacity constraints before they impact execution, escalates resource gaps, and collaborates with Operations and the Center of Excellence to develop solutions. The role will have multiple direct reports in capacity planning, analysis and travel. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Core Responsibilities <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Team Leadership & Development <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead, mentor, and develop Regional Planners and a Travel Services Manager to deliver excellence across the planning and travel functions. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Set performance expectations, conduct regular one-on-ones and performance reviews, and build a high-accountability team culture. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop career paths and growth opportunities for planning and travel staff to build bench strength. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure appropriate coverage, workload balance, and succession planning across the department. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Provide strategic direction and oversight to the Travel Services Manager and their team of 6–8 Travel Coordinators. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ensure field crew travel—flights, lodging, ground transportation, and per diem—is coordinated in full alignment with project schedules. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead, coach, and develop a team of Regional Workforce & Capacity Planners. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enterprise Demand Planning <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build and lead GSI's enterprise demand forecasting process. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop short, mid, and long-range demand forecasts by region, customer, service line, and resource type based on demand generated by Regional Leadership. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Sales, Operations, and Project Management to translate pipeline and backlog into resource demand signals. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish forecasting methodologies that improve predictability and planning accuracy. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Workforce, Equipment, & Asset Capacity Planning <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop workforce capacity models across all regions and operational functions. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forecast labor & equipment requirements by crew, project, and geography. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identify future staffing & equipment shortages and surpluses before operational impacts occur. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work closely with Operations leadership to ensure workforce plans align with business growth objectives. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Supply Chain and Operations leadership to create deployment strategies that maximize utilization. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Planning System Development & Transformation <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead selection, implementation, and continuous improvement of GSI's workforce and capacity planning platform. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Define business requirements for workforce forecasting, capacity modeling, scenario planning, utilization management, and equipment planning. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build a scalable planning ecosystem capable of supporting rapid company growth. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partner with IT and third-party vendors to deploy integrated planning solutions. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish reporting and dashboard capabilities that enable data-driven resource decisions. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Center of Excellence Leadership <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Establish planning standards, governance, metrics, and best practices. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop annual workforce and equipment capacity plans aligned with strategic growth objectives. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Support acquisitions, market expansions, and major customer opportunities through forward-looking resource analysis. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Create a planning function that becomes a competitive advantage for GSI. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Qualifications <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Required: <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">10+ years of workforce planning, resource planning, operations planning, supply chain planning, or capacity management experience. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience building planning functions, teams, and operating models from the ground up. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrated success implementing planning technologies and business processes. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities with demand forecasting and capacity modeling. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience managing labor, equipment, and operational resource planning in a field service, construction, infrastructure, utility, or industrial environment. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Preferred: <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt or demonstrated Lean/continuous improvement leadership. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with workforce planning platforms, APS software, or capacity planning systems. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience building enterprise planning organizations. <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience scaling operations during periods of rapid growth. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work Environment <span style="font-size: 12pt;">This position is based at GSI’s Westminster, CO office. Occasional travel to project sites or other GSI facilities may be required. This is a full-time, exempt position. US pay range for this role. $130,000&mdash;$180,000 USDSoil Nail Holdings and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.