Scheduler

Balfour Beatty Investments - North America; Quarrington; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave

Family friendly policies + pension

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a proactive Scheduler to join the Lincolnshire reactive highway maintenance team in Sleaford. You will plan, permit and schedule reactive works, coordinating with operational teams and stakeholders to ensure efficient delivery and KPI achievement.

Key responsibilities include using Confirm and WorkZone, maintaining capacity targets, and ensuring permits are submitted for compliant delivery. A collaborative, safety-focused approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong planning and permitting experience.
• Excellent organisational and monitoring skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in contract and performance management.
• Professional, personable and results-focused approach.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset.
• Willingness to work across organisational boundaries.
• Proven ability to influence and promote a positive safety culture.

Responsibilities

• Plan, permit and schedule reactive works in accordance with contract requirements and the Lincolnshire Permit Scheme.
• Utilise WorkZone and Confirm Connect systems to ensure all jobs are efficiently scheduled to operational teams.
• Maintain scheduling of works to maximise resource utilisation, targeting 120% capacity across team tablets each shift.
• Reschedule incomplete works to maintain KPI compliance and operational efficiency.
• Monitor and support performance against PI2 and PI3 KPIs.
• Work collaboratively with the Reactive Delivery Manager, Supervisors, The Hub, other workstreams and Operatives.
• Liaise with Lincolnshire County Council Highway Officers, the Streetworks Team and other stakeholders as required.
• Ensure all permits are submitted and managed to allow compliant delivery of works.
• Attend and contribute to operational, client and visual management meetings.
• Support a positive safety culture and continuous improvement across the contract.

Skills

Planning & permitting

Organisational skills

Verbal and written comms

Contract management

Professional & personable

Working relationships

Team player

Cross-functional collaboration

Safety culture

Tools

Confirm system

WorkZone

Lincolnshire Permit Scheme

Construction/highways experience

Job description

About the role

Job Title: Scheduler

Location: Sleaford

Company: Balfour Beatty

About the Role

Balfour Beatty is looking for a proactive and organised Reactive Scheduler to join our Lincolnshire team. This role plays a vital part in supporting the safe and efficient delivery of reactive highway maintenance works by planning, permitting and scheduling activities in line with contractual requirements and the Lincolnshire Permit Scheme.

Working closely with operational teams, supervisors and stakeholders, you will ensure works are scheduled effectively, resources are fully utilised and key performance indicators are achieved.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, permit and schedule reactive works in accordance with contract requirements and the Lincolnshire Permit Scheme.
• Utilise WorkZone and Confirm Connect systems to ensure all jobs are efficiently scheduled to operational teams.
• Maintain scheduling of works to maximise resource utilisation, targeting 120% capacity across team tablets each shift.
• Reschedule incomplete works to maintain KPI compliance and operational efficiency.
• Monitor and support performance against PI2 and PI3 KPIs.
• Work collaboratively with the Reactive Delivery Manager, Supervisors, The Hub, other workstreams and Operatives.
• Liaise with Lincolnshire County Council Highway Officers, the Streetworks Team and other stakeholders as required.
• Ensure all permits are submitted and managed to allow compliant delivery of works.
• Attend and contribute to operational, client and visual management meetings.
• Support a positive safety culture and continuous improvement across the contract.

Who we're looking for

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong planning and permitting experience.
• Excellent organisational and monitoring skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in contract and performance management.
• Professional, personable and results-focused approach.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships.
• Strong team player with a collaborative mindset.
• Willingness to work across organisational boundaries.
• Proven ability to influence and promote a positive safety culture.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience using Confirm and WorkZone systems.
• Experience of permitting in accordance with the Lincolnshire Permit Scheme.
• Experience working within a construction or highways environment.
• Relevant technical qualifications or additional industry skills.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We’re proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

*70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

For further information about Balfour Beatty Jobs please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

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About us

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/