Senior Network Planner - Occupancy

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is seeking a Senior Network Planner (Occupancy) to lead the development, delivery and maintenance of Network Occupancy schedules across the South East. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on planning to minimise disruption and maximise customer benefit.

This position is hybrid, with a minimum of 2 days per week in Maidstone or Basingstoke offices. You will guide teams, analyse plans and ensure documentation is up to date for regional occupancy scheduling.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of road space planning procedures and systems.
• Proficiency in MS Office and related tools for reporting.
• Experience delivering through other teams and influencing stakeholders.
• Strong decision-making skills with risk assessment.
• Excellent communication and people management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead effective planning of network occupancy schedules, abnormal load movements, and third party works in a way that optimises the network's overall availability and ensures road space can be managed in a way that minimises disruption to customers, whilst maximising operational delivery.
• Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to a team of Network Planners or relevant parties in the development of regional occupancy schedules, ensuring they adopt best practice, intelligence insights, and ad-hoc changes for maximum customer benefit.
• Ensure relevant documentation, information, materials, service delivery manuals, requirements and guidance are kept up to date and accessible to the wider regional teams.
• Proactively analyse the effectiveness of existing plans and arrangements in meeting service level expectations and identify opportunities for improvement; elevate risks and issues that affect delivery.
• Lead on decision making with conflicting priorities using evidence based approach.

Skills

Road space planning

Office software

Stakeholder engagement

Decision making

People management

Tools

Technology systems

Job description

Are you experienced in network management and delivery?

Do you have sound data and information management skills?

Then National Highways have the role for you!

We're looking for a Senior Network Planner (Occupancy) to join our South East team to provide leadership, subject matter expertise and guidance to assure the development, delivery and maintenance of Network Occupancy schedules.

This role will be worked on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days per week in either Maidstone or Basingstoke office.

• Lead effective planning of network occupancy schedules, abnormal load movements, and third party works in a way that optimises the network's overall availability and ensures road space can be managed in a way that minimises disruption to customers, whilst maximising operational delivery.
• Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to a team of Network Planners or relevant parties in the development of regional occupancy schedules, ensuring they adopt best practice, intelligence insights, and ad-hoc changes for maximum customer benefit.
• Ensure relevant documentation, information, materials, service delivery manuals, requirements and guidance are kept up to date and accessible to the wider regional teams.
• Proactively analyse the effectiveness of existing plans and arrangements in meeting service level expectations and identify opportunities for improvement; elevate risks and issues that affect delivery.
• Lead on decision making with conflicting priorities using evidence based approach.

About you.

• Extensive knowledge of road space planning procedures and relevant technology systems
• Proficiency in office software products to enable production/maintenance of documents, spreadsheets and management reports.
• Experience of delivering through other teams, influencing internal and external stakeholders to follow new processes and procedures.
• Demonstrate effective decision making skills, using sound judgement to assess options, manage risks, and make timely decisions within a team or across a department.
• Good communication and people management skills.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.