Planner

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Planner to join our team in the Yorkshire, North East region. As a Planner within the Performance Assurance and Business Services team, you will develop, manage and maintain the master schedule delivery programme for the region for in-year and future year programmes.

This position can be based from our Wakefield, Darlington or Leeds offices.

• Compile and maintain the master view of yearly scheme schedules and delivery plans for the region, supporting the 'one programme' vision.
• Proactively challenge project plans and identify opportunities to optimise the combining of works as part of regional collaboration initiatives or efficiency opportunities.
• Maintain and update the scheme progress on a regular basis with consistent use of project controls.
• Provide programme status and variance reports including those to fully support internal month end and year end reporting
• Lead on provision of key programme information including forecast/actual dates and outputs.

About you.

• Proven ability to use software/tools to support planning and programme management (e.g. Excel, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project); a qualification is desirable but not essential.
• Good understanding of project management disciplines.
• Experience in developing, maintaining and scheduling complex programmes.
• Good stakeholder management skills with experience of liaising with multiple project teams.
• Ability to use data and information to inform decision making.

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.