Senior Network Planner (Occupancy) - Hybrid Road Scheduling

National Highways; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is hiring a Senior Network Planner (Occupancy) to lead the development, delivery and maintenance of occupancy schedules across the South East. The role requires strong knowledge of road space planning, data management and stakeholder leadership in a hybrid work arrangement with two office days per week in Maidstone or Basingstoke.

You will guide teams, optimize network availability and minimise disruption to customers while ensuring compliance with policy and best practice.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of road space planning procedures and relevant technology systems.
• Proficiency in office software 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.

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 maximise 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; escal…
• Lead on decision making with conflicting priorities using evidence based approach.

Skills

Road space planning

Office software

Stakeholder management

Decision making

Communication

People management

Job description

National Highways is hiring a Senior Network Planner (Occupancy) to lead the development, delivery and maintenance of occupancy schedules across the South East. The role requires strong knowledge of road space planning, data management and stakeholder leadership in a hybrid work arrangement with two office days per week in Maidstone or Basingstoke.

You will guide teams, optimize network availability and minimise disruption to customers while ensuring compliance with policy and best practice.