Hybrid Senior Network Resilience Planner

National Highways; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a Senior Network Planner - Resilience to lead development and delivery of resilience, emergency and weather response plans from Bristol or Exeter. You will guide processes, ensure best practice, and drive improvements that benefit customers.

The role requires contingency and business continuity expertise, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to implement crisis procedures.

Qualifications

• Experience in contingency and business continuity planning.
• Knowledge of Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (desirable).
• Experience creating, developing response plans including managing debriefs (desirable).
• Ability to implement company crisis management procedures and policies.
• Good communications and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Proactively analysing the effectiveness of existing plans and arrangements; manage risks and issues that affect delivery.
• Providing advice and consultancy to minimise impact to Operations in emergencies.
• Develop and recommend best practice methods for ongoing improvement of processes and activities in scope.
• Proactively liaising with regional Operations colleagues and wider stakeholders to minimise impact of events on customers.
• Manage Network Resilience funding, identifying proposed schemes and prioritising funding aligned to risk.

Skills

Contingency planning

Business continuity

Crisis management

Stakeholder management

Emergency response

Job description

National Highways is seeking a Senior Network Planner - Resilience to lead development and delivery of resilience, emergency and weather response plans from Bristol or Exeter. You will guide processes, ensure best practice, and drive improvements that benefit customers.

The role requires contingency and business continuity expertise, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to implement crisis procedures.