Your New role
At National Highways we’re looking for a Network Planner – Occupancy to undertake the development and maintenance of occupancy schedules and manage their delivery through National Highways teams or third party partners. You will be tasked with undertaking the timely and accurate collation and recording of network occupancy, in order to ensure that road space pace bookings can be managed in a way that minimises disruption to customers and maximises operational delivery.
This role is a 12 month fixed term contract.
The role will be based in one of our Guildford, Basingstoke or Maidstone offices.
What you’ll be leading on
- To proactively analyse the effectiveness of existing plans and arrangements in meeting service level expectations and identify opportunities for improvement; escalate risks and issues that affect delivery.
- To proactively liaise with regional Operations colleagues (e.g. Service Delivery and Scheme Delivery) and wider internal and external stakeholders to optimise network availability and minimise the impact of planned and unplanned events on customers.
- Deliver timely and accurate engagement, communications and updates to stakeholders regarding network occupancy including preparation of management reports, debriefs and lessons learnt
- To ensure that any relevant information, documents, materials, service delivery manuals, requirements and guidance are kept up to date and accessible to the wider regional teams.
- To undertake management of Abnormal Loads and Utilities requests in the region, ensuring relevant procedures are followed, impacts managed and stakeholders informed.
To be Successful
- Experience of road space planning procedures and systems
- Health and safety legislation, regulations, working practices and procedures Functional /
- Previous experience in highway maintenance and/or technical administration
- Proficiency in a range of office software products to enable production / maintenance of documents, spreadsheets and management reports
- Excellent communications skills
A bit about us
Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.
Want to know more?
To request a copy of the role profile, please contact [email protected] quoting reference number #3587