Planning Manager

MGroup Water; Bradford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading utilities provider in the UK is seeking a Planning Manager to lead a planning and scheduling team for their Yorkshire Water contract. You will ensure high performance and compliance with contract obligations, while optimizing customer experience. The ideal candidate will have a full driving license and a track record of effective team leadership. This position offers a range of benefits, including a contributory pension scheme, private health care, and a company car.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Private health care

25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Full driving license

Responsibilities

• Lead a high performing planning and scheduling team.
• Ensure all planning activities complete compliantly within contract SLAs.
• Oversee team leadership and service delivery.

Job description

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. M Group Water are currently looking to recruit a Planning Manager to work on our Yorkshire Water contract, for WSP Metering Lot 4.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We\'re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

This role will be within our Demand management and network infrastructure team. We look after 60 million meters and our teams provide advanced metering solutions to help manage demand for essential suppliers.

What you\'ll do

• As Planning Manager, you will be required to work collaboratively with our client Yorkshire Water, leading a high performing planning and scheduling team to deliver an exceptional end-to-end customer journey.
• You will be able to manage your team to optimise our performance, customer experience and commercial objectives.
• You will be responsible for ensuring all planning activities are completed compliantly and within contract SLAs with a clear focus on KPI performance measures.
• You\'ll be responsible for team leadership, service delivery, and customer experience. Oversees staff records, recruitment, and reporting. Ensures timely resolution of enquiries and escalations, drives process improvement, and supports communication and recognition initiatives.
• Maintains compliance with CMEX/DMEX/RMEX standards and collaborates across teams to uphold service excellence.

What you\'ll bring

• Full driving license

What\'s in it for you?

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000\'s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

We\'re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet. We\'re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations. We\'re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We\'re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Whether you\'re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It\'s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.