Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
Based at our Bury St Edmunds (Higham) office in Suffolk, you’ll be joining Aran, part of M Group Energy - an industry-leading provider of retrofit and energy efficiency solutions. With a strong reputation for quality and delivery, Aran is focused on raising standards across installation projects while improving the comfort, cost of living and sustainability of UK homes.
As a Senior Capacity Planning Manager, you’ll play a critical strategic role in shaping how we plan and deliver our programmes across the UK. You’ll lead on forward-thinking workforce and resource planning—ensuring we have the right capability, in the right place, at the right time to meet current and future demand. Working closely with senior operational, commercial and supply chain teams, you’ll turn complex data into actionable insights that support growth, efficiency and delivery excellence. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Developing long-term capacity and workforce forecasts aligned to programme pipelines
- Analysing delivery volumes, labour utilisation and regional demand trends
- Identifying capacity risks, workforce gaps and supply chain constraints
- Supporting mobilisation planning for new projects and contracts
- Driving data-led decision making through use of MI, forecasting tools and reporting dashboards
- Collaborating with operational and client teams to align planning with delivery capability
- Strengthening workforce planning models to support business growth and scalability
- Improving forecasting accuracy and promoting a data-driven planning culture across the business
You’ll be central to ensuring our operations remain scalable, resilient and commercially effective as we continue to grow.
What you’ll bring
We’re looking for someone who combines strong analytical capability with a strategic mindset and a collaborative approach. You’ll bring:
- Experience in workforce planning, capacity planning or operational forecasting
- A background in field-based environments such as retrofit, construction, housing or utilities
- Strong analytical skills, with confidence interpreting operational and commercial data
- Experience using MI, forecasting tools or reporting systems to support decision making
- The ability to influence and work collaboratively with senior stakeholders
- Strong organisational, planning and communication skills
You’ll thrive in this role if you’re:
- Forward-thinking and commercially aware
- Data-driven, with a passion for improvement
- Comfortable working across teams and influencing at senior level
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company events, including an annual Christmas party
- Christmas shutdown period
- Casual dress
- Free parking and on-site parking
- Referral programme
- Bereavement leave
- And yes… Free Sandwich Friday
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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