Planner
Company
Location
East Riding Of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
4/28/2025
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Description
Working here isnt just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and well reward you with a range of benefits that recognise great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves. Join us and take the next step towards a fulfilling career.
About The Role
Working with the Planning Team Leader and a wider team of Planners, you will ensure work is coordinated and scheduled efficiently for our Field Operatives. This is role based in our Bradford office.
Please note: this is a fixed term maternity cover contract for 12 months.
What Will Your Day Look Like
Completing set productivity targets for Planners
Planning a full schedule of works in line with the set targets i.e. commercial, planning ahead by 7 days.
Keeping a track of Ops non-completions throughout the day and planning top-up work to meet the completion targets.
Working closely with Stores/Supervisors in order to plan and complete jobs.
Answering and resolving customer enquiries
Answering incoming calls from Customer and Yorkshire Water in line with the contract SLAs
Building effective working relationships with the Field Operations.
Undertaking ad-hoc projects as required by the Planning Team Leader.
About You
This role is perfect for someone with good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. You will be Client and Customer focussed with a drive to move forward and bring betterment in each task that you carry out. You will have good IT skills (particularly in Microsoft Word/Excel) along with strong administrative skills and knowledge of scheduling function.
Whats In It For You
We offer a rewarding salary that is tailored to your skills and experience. But thats not all! We celebrate hard work and give recognition to our colleagues. In addition to this, we understand that one size doesnt fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.
24 days holiday plus bank holidays
Company pension scheme
Life assurance
Family friendly policies
A selection of lifestyle benefit options
Financial wellbeing programme
Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.
About Us
We design, build and maintain the UKs utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.
We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power and telecommunications sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment.
Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.
We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Scottish Water
We are an equal opportunities employer.....
We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity and creates an engaging workplace and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, were making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.
What Next...
We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of recruitment process.
If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion.
About The Role
Working with the Planning Team Leader and a wider team of Planners, you will ensure work is coordinated and scheduled efficiently for our Field Operatives. This is role based in our Bradford office.
Please note: this is a fixed term maternity cover contract for 12 months.
What Will Your Day Look Like
Completing set productivity targets for Planners
Planning a full schedule of works in line with the set targets i.e. commercial, planning ahead by 7 days.
Keeping a track of Ops non-completions throughout the day and planning top-up work to meet the completion targets.
Working closely with Stores/Supervisors in order to plan and complete jobs.
Answering and resolving customer enquiries
Answering incoming calls from Customer and Yorkshire Water in line with the contract SLAs
Building effective working relationships with the Field Operations.
Undertaking ad-hoc projects as required by the Planning Team Leader.
About You
This role is perfect for someone with good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. You will be Client and Customer focussed with a drive to move forward and bring betterment in each task that you carry out. You will have good IT skills (particularly in Microsoft Word/Excel) along with strong administrative skills and knowledge of scheduling function.
Whats In It For You
We offer a rewarding salary that is tailored to your skills and experience. But thats not all! We celebrate hard work and give recognition to our colleagues. In addition to this, we understand that one size doesnt fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.
24 days holiday plus bank holidays
Company pension scheme
Life assurance
Family friendly policies
A selection of lifestyle benefit options
Financial wellbeing programme
Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.
About Us
We design, build and maintain the UKs utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better. We provide cutting-edge and sustainable engineering solutions and play a critical role in helping to keep the water running, the lights on and people connected.
We are an expert, responsible and agile partner, providing vital services to water, power and telecommunications sectors. We work closely with our clients to help protect and improve their assets, enhance customer experience and protect the natural environment.
Everything we do is designed to drive continual improvement and move life forward.
We are proud to work in partnership with leading utility providers, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Northern PowerGrid, Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Power Energy Networks and Scottish Water
We are an equal opportunities employer.....
We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity and creates an engaging workplace and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, were making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.
What Next...
We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of recruitment process.
If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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