Infrastructure & Energy Workforce Subject Matter Expert

We are seeking an Infrastructure & Energy Workforce Subject Matter Expert to support workforce-planning and labor-market engagements involving energy, utilities, transportation, engineering, construction, and major infrastructure investments.

This consultant will help government agencies, utilities, regional organizations, and industry partners understand workforce demand, occupational shortages, training capacity, skills requirements, and talent-pipeline needs. The ideal candidate combines industry knowledge with workforce-planning, labor-market, or human-capital strategy experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead or support workforce studies for energy, utility, transportation, engineering, construction, and infrastructure sectors.
• Forecast workforce demand associated with capital projects, federal investments, system modernization, and industry growth.
• Identify critical occupations, skill shortages, retirement risks, and hard-to-fill roles.
• Analyze workforce supply, training capacity, credential pipelines, and regional labor availability.
• Map occupations, competencies, certifications, apprenticeships, and career pathways.
• Assess workforce needs across utilities, engineering and construction firms, contractors, suppliers, and public agencies.
• Conduct interviews with industry executives, workforce leaders, labor organizations, contractors, training providers, and educational institutions.
• Develop workforce-development strategies aligned with infrastructure and energy investments.
• Recommend partnerships among government, employers, community colleges, apprenticeship programs, and workforce boards.
• Support projects involving the Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, utilities, regional authorities, and infrastructure agencies.
• Prepare reports, workforce forecasts, implementation roadmaps, presentations, and executive briefings.
• Contribute subject-matter expertise to government proposals and technical approaches.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of experience in energy, utilities, engineering, construction, transportation, infrastructure, or related workforce planning.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure or energy-sector occupations and workforce challenges.
• Experience conducting workforce planning, labor-market analysis, talent-pipeline development, or human-capital strategy.
• Ability to assess occupational demand, skills requirements, training capacity, and regional labor availability.
• Experience engaging industry employers and public-sector stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, report-writing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate technical industry needs into workforce strategies and implementation recommendations.