Planner - 5 months

Royal Greenwich; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Borough of Greenwich is seeking a Planner on a fixed-term 5-month contract within the System and Scheduling Team. You will allocate appointments, monitor the diary of trade operatives and reallocate work to keep progress on track.

The role requires strong organisational and IT skills, a good understanding of the construction industry, and the ability to manage conflicting deadlines while maintaining good relationships with staff.

Qualifications

• Experience with scheduling and planning systems in a construction or repairs environment.
• Excellent organisational, communication and negotiating skills.
• Good knowledge of the building maintenance industry and materials.

Responsibilities

• Allocate appointments for unallocated works orders and re-appoint incomplete orders.
• Actively monitor and manage the diary of trade operatives to ensure work is progressed daily.
• Record unavailability and absence and reallocate work as appropriate.
• Assess resource availability against demand for appointments.
• Deliver programmes within agreed timescales and ensure daily appointments are completed.

Skills

Diary management

Resource allocation

Planning systems

IT skills

Communication

Negotiation

Building maintenance knowledge

Customer focus

Tools

Planning software

Job description

Advert - Planner Scale 6 Fixed Term Contract – 5 months Repairs & Investment are looking to recruit a Planner to work within our System and Scheduling Team

Responsibilities

• To allocate appointments for unallocated works orders and re-appoint incomplete orders.
• To actively monitor and manage the diary of the trade operatives and staff to ensure work is picked up and progressed during the day.
• To record unavailability and absence and reallocate work as appropriate.
• To assess the availability of resources against the demand for appointments.
• Delivery of all programmes within agreed timescales and ensure that all appointments are completed on a daily basis.
• Ensure the delivery of the Repairs Service is smooth and efficient.

Skills and Requirements

• You will need to have a customer orientated approach, ensure best value for money is achieved in the delivery of the works.
• Excellent observational skills and reacting to information as presented.
• A good knowledge of the construction industry, including materials, trades, building methods.
• Excellent organisational, communication and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written communication.
• Excellent IT skills and experience of planning ordering and scheduling systems.
• The ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with staff at all levels.
• Ideally you should have a good knowledge of the building maintenance industry.
• You will have the skills and abilities required to deal with the conflicting demands and timescales, whilst maintaining good relationships with team members.

Diversity Statement

Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close

All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored

Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary

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Our Staff Values

Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.