Network Planner - Occupancy

National Highways; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways in the UK is seeking a Network Planner – Occupancy to develop and maintain occupancy schedules and ensure timely delivery through internal teams or partners. You will collate and record network occupancy data to minimise disruption and maximise operational delivery.

Based in Exeter or Bristol, the role involves analysing plan effectiveness, liaising with regional colleagues and stakeholders, producing reports and updates, and ensuring documentation is kept up to date.

Qualifications

• Experience of road space planning procedures and systems.
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation and working practices.
• Experience in highway maintenance or technical administration.
• Proficient with office software for documents, spreadsheets and reports.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Proactively analyse the effectiveness of existing plans and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Liaise with regional Operations and stakeholders to optimise network availability.
• Provide timely engagement and updates to stakeholders and prepare management reports.
• Keep information, documents and guidance up to date for regional teams.
• Manage Abnormal Loads and Utilities requests, ensuring procedures are followed and stakeholders informed.

Skills

Road space planning procedures

Health and safety regulations

Highway maintenance experience

Office software proficiency

Excellent communication skills

Job description

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 will be based from our Exeter/Bristol office.

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.

About you.

• 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.