Senior Forward Planning Manager

Veev is leading the way in the transformation of the construction industry with an innovative approach to modular home construction. Veev’s prefabricated closed panel systems allow homes to be assembled efficiently on site while delivering both a more sustainable and higher quality final product than traditional construction. As a subsidiary of Lennar, Veev is leveraging the strength and scale of its parent company while maintaining the speed and disruptive approach from its roots as a Silicon Valley based startup. Veev has developed a vertically integrated approach that involves multi-disciplinary collaboration across real estate, design, development, engineering, manufacturing, and construction.

The Role

The Senior Forward Planning Manager leads the forward planning, pre-construction, permitting, and design coordination efforts required to successfully deploy Veev’s panelized housing platform. This role provides strategic and operational leadership across the development lifecycle, overseeing jurisdictional approvals, consultant deliverables, multidisciplinary design integration, and site readiness to ensure projects transition efficiently from initial planning through permit approval and vertical home assembly.

The Senior Forward Planning Manager serves as a critical link between architectural design, product engineering, civil engineering, municipal agencies, horizontal development contractors, manufacturing operations, and field assembly teams. This individual is responsible for driving project schedules, proactively resolving design and permitting challenges, establishing accountability across internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring that site-specific plan sets align with Veev’s standardized product platform, digital manufacturing parameters, and physical construction requirements.

This role requires a strong understanding of residential land development, entitlement and permitting processes, construction documentation, and offsite manufacturing. The successful candidate will take ownership of forward planning execution, identify opportunities to improve processes and timelines, and drive projects toward predictable, efficient, and successful home delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Forward Planning, Permitting & Entitlements

• Lead the preparation, coordination, submission, tracking, and approval of site-specific building permits, structural validations, civil engineering and grading plans, utility plans, and associated jurisdictional submittals.
• Manage relationships and communications with local planning departments, building officials, fire authorities, and other regulatory agencies to navigate permitting requirements for Veev’s offsite manufactured housing platform and integrated MEP and fire safety systems.
• Oversee the review of individual homesite layouts to ensure compliance with municipal zoning, setbacks, easements, utility requirements, grading constraints, and applicable local and state regulations.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive permitting and entitlement schedules, proactively identifying approval risks, plan-check delays, and critical path dependencies.
• Drive resolution of municipal plan-check comments, coordinate design revisions, and ensure timely resubmittals through final permit issuance.
• Maintain oversight of site-specific corporate models, architectural submittals, jurisdictional requirements, and permit documentation to ensure accuracy, consistency, and version control.

Plan Set & Design Integration

• Lead the coordination and technical review of multidisciplinary construction documents, including architectural plans, civil engineering and grading plans, structural drawings, MEP schematics, utility plans, geotechnical reports, and state-specific submittals.
• Oversee design integration between Veev’s product engineering, architectural design, and construction teams to ensure site-specific plans align with standardized product configurations, manufacturing capabilities, and field assembly requirements.
• Identify and drive resolution of design conflicts, constructability concerns, site-specific constraints, and discrepancies between approved plans, digital models, and physical site conditions.
• Manage external design consultants, including civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, surveyors, structural engineers, and dry utility coordinators, ensuring deliverables meet established quality standards and project schedules.
• Establish clear design review milestones, deliverable expectations, and coordination protocols to improve plan quality and minimize downstream revisions.
• Identify opportunities to standardize design processes, optimize plan sets, and improve the integration of Veev’s panelized housing system across varying jurisdictions and development conditions.

Construction, Site Development & Factory Coordination

• Lead coordination with horizontal development contractors to ensure grading, foundations, underground utilities, and site infrastructure are executed in accordance with approved civil engineering and construction documents.
• Oversee homesite readiness planning, coordinating horizontal development schedules with permitting milestones, factory production capacity, material availability, and field assembly resources.
• Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, and field operations teams to align project sequencing and ensure approved designs translate accurately into production and on-site assembly requirements.
• Identify site development risks, construction dependencies, and schedule constraints that could impact factory production or vertical assembly and drive timely resolution with responsible stakeholders.
• Establish and monitor project readiness criteria to ensure homesites are appropriately permitted, serviced, and prepared prior to delivery and assembly.
• Drive continuous improvement across the handoff from forward planning and design through manufacturing, site development, and vertical construction.

Project Management, Leadership & Process Improvement

• Own and manage forward planning schedules across assigned projects, establishing milestones, critical path activities, stakeholder responsibilities, and performance expectations.
• Provide regular reporting to department leadership on permitting status, design progress, consultant performance, site readiness, schedule risks, and key project dependencies.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to regulatory approvals, design coordination, consultant performance, site development, and construction readiness.
• Develop and implement standardized workflows, tracking tools, documentation procedures, and reporting systems to improve visibility, accountability, and execution across the forward planning function.
• Lead cross-functional coordination meetings and drive accountability among internal teams, external consultants, municipal agencies, and construction partners.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members and contribute to the development of scalable forward planning processes and best practices.

Customer Management & Communication

• Serve as a senior point of contact for homesite buyers and other key stakeholders, providing clear and consistent communication regarding design development, permitting, pre-construction milestones, and home assembly schedules.
• Lead coordination between customers and Veev’s architectural design and engineering teams to communicate site-specific design parameters, finish selections, product limitations, and design integration requirements.
• Establish and communicate realistic project timelines, proactively managing customer expectations around permitting, design approvals, site readiness, and construction milestones.
• Resolve customer concerns related to design coordination and pre-construction activities by partnering with the appropriate internal teams and driving timely solutions.
• Ensure customer-facing communications remain aligned with actual project schedules, regulatory requirements, and construction readiness.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Land Planning, Real Estate Development, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in residential land development, forward planning, entitlement and permitting, construction management, or architectural and engineering coordination. Experience with modular, prefabricated, or offsite manufactured construction is highly desirable.
• Leadership & Project Management: Demonstrated experience independently managing complex, multidisciplinary projects, leading external consultants, coordinating cross-functional teams, and driving accountability against project schedules and deliverables.
• Permitting & Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of residential development processes, municipal entitlement and permitting requirements, building codes, zoning regulations, and jurisdictional plan-check processes. Familiarity with California residential permitting and state-level manufactured or offsite construction requirements is a plus.
• Technical Expertise: Advanced ability to read, interpret, coordinate, and review civil engineering plans, geotechnical reports, architectural construction documents, structural drawings, shop drawings, utility plans, and MEP layouts.
• Project Management Tools: Proficiency with project scheduling and tracking platforms such as MS Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent tools, as well as document management and design collaboration platforms such as Autodesk Construction Cloud/BIM 360 and Procore.
• Design & Construction Coordination: Experience identifying design discrepancies, constructability issues, and conflicts between engineering documents, digital models, and physical site conditions.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to effectively manage relationships with municipal agencies, engineering consultants, contractors, customers, and internal leadership.
• Strategic & Operational Execution: Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to manage competing priorities, anticipate project risks, improve operational processes, and drive projects from early planning through construction readiness.
• Core Competencies: High ownership mentality, sound judgment, attention to detail, proactive problem-solving, strong leadership presence, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving construction and manufacturing environment.

Compensation

Salary is based on a combination of experience, skills, and location. Pursuant to state pay disclosure requirements for Hayward, CA and surrounding areas, the pay range for this role is $149,00 - $185,000 annually.

Benefits

Veev offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being and growth of its employees, including:

• Paid vacations, sick, and holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• Subsidized Life insurance, with voluntary option
• Subsidized Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance

Perks

• Pre-tax Commuter Account
• Subsidized EV charging
• Growth & Development Opportunities