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Technical Planner

Salary Up to £52,798 - depending on experience
Location Hanningfield, Chelmsford
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Technical Planner

Full Time – Permanent

Salary – Up to £52,508 – depending on experience.

Location – Essex or Suffolk. Hybrid working pattern with a minimum of 2 office working days.

 

About the role

 

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Planning & Scheduling South leadership team as a Technical Planner.

This Technical Planner role supports both our Planning & Scheduling team and our Water Networks teams. You will ensure pre-site validation of field activities to enable efficient planning & scheduling. This includes supporting the team to optimise planning, assess and to mitigate risks associated with the execution of field activities. The role also includes support to in-day jeopardy management of field work execution.

 

Our Technical Planner role supports job promoters with coaching in the field to ensure right first-time job promotion is achieved and is a key in supporting continuous improvement within Planning & Scheduling and across all areas of our water network operations and maintenance processes.

 

Customer Service is of paramount importance and as a Technical Planner you will ensure we deliver on all promises for our customers safely and efficiently.

 

Performance reporting for the planning team, contract partners and field colleagues are also key responsibilities in this role to support these teams in achieving industry leading results.

 

About you

 

This is a great opportunity for a driven, self-motivated leader. We’re looking for you to have a passion for delivering for our customers - right first time and fast.

 

We’re looking for someone with proven knowledge and experience in water operations or water maintenance. You’ll have a good knowledge of the process for water network repairs and a clear understanding of correct and safe working practices in the field. Alternatively, we will consider applicants with extensive experience in the successful planning of complex field work.

 

The successful applicant will display strong and pragmatic problem-solving abilities. Demonstrating strong interpersonal skills to ensure we deliver industry leading customer service to both internal and external customers. In this Technical Planner role you will support and coach our teams in best practice and therefore a track record of creating working environments where teams engage and achieve is highly desirable.

 

You’ll need to be confident when working with Microsoft applications as well as experience using Elyx, Maximo, OFS & CC&B.

 

Experience in building reports and data analysis are key. This is to ensure effective performance reporting is produced and presented to colleagues to secure industry leading performance.

 

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.  We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

 

About us

 

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

 

NWG at a glance:

 

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

 

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

 

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

 

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues.

Benefits to include, here’s just a few of them:

  • Enhanced maternity pay
  • Enhanced annual leave with additional special leave for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
  • Company pension scheme
  • Digital GP
  • Award winning wellbeing website
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Life assurance
  • Qualification loans
  • Professional subscription
  • Buy and sell annual leave
  • Discounts and cashback offers

 

 

NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.

We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.

Our values describe our main principles, qualities and attributes. They are the guiding principles which define who we are, what we do and how we do it. They make us different from our competitors and guide our decisions and actions to drive us towards our vision.

Our values are:

Results Driven

We take responsibility for achieving excellent business results.

Ethical

We are open and honest and meet our commitments with a responsible approach to the environment and our communities.

Customer Focused

We aim to exceed the expectations of our internal and external customers.

Innovative

We continuously strive for innovative and better ways to deliver our business.

One Team

We work together consistently, promoting co-operation, to achieve our corporate objectives.

We’re the great company we are because of you – our people. As our way of saying thanks, we offer you a wide range of benefits and discounts to take advantage of.

To find out more about our benefits, see our benefits booklet attached to this advert.

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