Strategic Installations Planner

Howdens Joinery; Northampton, Watford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension scheme (12%)

25 days holiday

Job summary

Howdens Joinery is seeking a proactive Installations Planner to coordinate IT installations across our depot and office network. The role focuses on planning work, coordinating engineers, suppliers, and internal teams, and ensuring assets and information are ready for each installation.

You will join the Installations Planning team, building knowledge and taking on more responsibility. The role is four days onsite with one day from home, with UK travel and a full driving license required.

Qualifications

• Strong planner and coordinator required.
• Experience in installations, scheduling, field service, project support, administration, logistics, IT support or telecoms helps.
• Excellent organisation and ability to manage several priorities.
• Clear, proactive communication style.
• Experience coordinating people, appointments, tasks, suppliers or project activity.
• Attention to detail and practical problem-solving.
• Confident with Microsoft Office and learning new systems.
• Ability to build positive relationships across teams.

Responsibilities

• Planning and scheduling installation activity across depot and office network.
• Keeping project plans, actions and information accurate and up to date.
• Coordinating engineers, internal teams and third-party suppliers.
• Ensuring equipment and stock are available where needed.
• Tracking progress, spotting issues early and keeping work on schedule.
• Providing clear updates to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Supporting network and telephony incidents and service requests; meeting SLAs.
• Improving planning processes to boost team efficiency.

Job description

Howdens Joinery is seeking a proactive Installations Planner to coordinate IT installations across our depot and office network. The role focuses on planning work, coordinating engineers, suppliers, and internal teams, and ensuring assets and information are ready for each installation.

You will join the Installations Planning team, building knowledge and taking on more responsibility. The role is four days onsite with one day from home, with UK travel and a full driving license required.