Regional Planning Manager

Overview

About Suffolk

Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through our core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self-perform construction, and technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies). By integrating data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform, we connect design, construction, and operations to deliver smarter, more predictable results and redefine how America builds.

Suffolk – America’s Contractor – is a national company with more than$8 billion in annual revenue, 3,000 employees, and 17 offices, including Boston (headquarters), New York City, Miami, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Estero, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Herndon, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other key markets. Suffolk manages some of the most complex and transformative projects in the country, serving clients across healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, aviation, transportation, government, mission critical, and commercial sectors. Suffolk is privately held and is led by founder, chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #8 on ENR’s list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.” For more information, visit and follow Suffolk on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram.

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The Role

As the Regional Planning Manager, you will be a strategic and operational leader for our New Haven projects. You will oversee all planning and scheduling activities, ensuring the consistent application of Suffolk's planning standards and best practices. In this role, you will act as a hands‑on practitioner and a dedicated leader of the regional planning team manager, you will be directly contributing to project execution while also leading, mentoring, and developing the regional planning team. A key focus of this position is leveraging planning analytics to derive deeper insights from our scheduling data, enhancing project foresight and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Management

  • Provide expert guidance on planning and scheduling to project teams, ensuring adherence to Suffolk’s planning standards and best practices.
  • Oversee planner staffing and resource allocation for all regional projects, coordinating with the Regional VP of Operations.
  • Recruit, onboard, and mentor planning personnel to meet evolving project demands and foster a culture of excellence and consistency.
  • Lead regular planning staff meetings and quarterly regional sessions to drive collaboration and continuous improvement.
  • Conduct and present comprehensive schedule impact analyses for projects affected by changes or delays.

• Project Planning & Execution

  • Develop and maintain comprehensive project schedules that align with contract requirements and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
  • Ensure the timely completion and quality of project schedules, including the preparation of baseline and updated schedules.
  • Validate that monthly schedule updates are accurately coded to support digital reporting and provide reliable insights into key project metrics.
  • Support project teams in developing short‑term plans and facilitating the Last Planner System, ensuring alignment with the overall project schedule.
  • Collaborate with Business Development, Project Executives and the VP of Operations to create proposal schedules for new business opportunities and update preconstruction schedules.
  • Partner with project teams to leverage tools like Procore Scheduling and methodologies like Crew Loading to enhance outputs for operations and trade partners.

• Training & Development

  • Deliver instructor‑led training on project planning, planning SOPs, and short‑term planning methodologies to New Haven field operations through our Learning & Development programs.
  • Provide targeted training and mentorship to planners, interns, and Career Start participants.
  • Drive enhancements to planning standards and processes, delivering added value across the region.

• Planning Analytics

  • Lead the integration of planning analytics into the regional manager role, utilizing available data to gain deeper insights into schedules and short‑term plans.
  • Analyze production tracking, look‑ahead schedules, and weekly work plans to standardize processes and inform future scheduling with more accurate buffer allocations.
  • Standardize look‑ahead process to capture trade partner durations and identify buffer gaps between trade partner and project schedule durations.
  • Lead New Haven project peer reviews including Schedule 9‑Box, historical project and system comp data, and applying the standard peer review checklist to identify buffer between trade partner and GMP schedule durations.
  • Analyze monthly schedule updates to identify trends (e.g., compression, trade stacking) and present findings to project teams and in forums such as monthly project reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum of 15 years of scheduling experience on large‑scale construction projects.
• Expertise in vertical construction processes to develop proposal schedules from RFP documents for various sectors, including Healthcare, Science & Technology, Commercial, Government, and Education.
• Proven experience in cost and resource loading Critical Path Method (CPM) schedules.
• Demonstrated experience in construction claims preparation from a scheduling perspective.
• Advanced proficiency in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, including cost/resource loading and earned value features.
• Must be a Certified Subject Matter Expert in CPM Scheduling and willing to obtain AACEI Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification within six months of hire.
• Must be trained in and proficient with the Last Planner System.

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stands; walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.

EEO Statement

Suffolk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran, gender identity, age or any other status protected by law. This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Suffolk will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination toward, or harassment of, applicants or employees by anyone at Suffolk, or anyone working on behalf of Suffolk.