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Summary:
As a Waterlink Scheduler, you'll be responsible for coordinating with customers and field teams to ensure the timely completion of work.
This includes scheduling appointments, managing workloads for field staff and contractors, and preparing daily work packs.
You'll also be in charge of organising and closing out street-work notices to meet deadlines and avoid financial penalties.
The role involves liaising with various internal departments and plumbers to address customer needs and resolve complaints.
A key part of your job is to monitor and manage operational workloads using various systems, ensuring all scheduling tools are kept up to date and all completed work is quality-checked.
Additionally, you'll report on performance metrics related to highways, commercial conversion, and new connections.
Main responsibilities:
- Co-ordinating works with customers ensuring they are kept up to date with any changes or variations that occur.
- Assigning field staff work based on operational and commercial requirements, work priorities and field team workloads.
- Preparation of daily work information packs for contractors, gangs and plumbers.
- Ensure all scheduling tools used are up to date with team briefs, training, annual leave so ensuring accurate schedules of customer appointments and management of resources.
- Organise reinstatement to meet deadlines set by customers and Street-works notices.
- Arrange and close street-work notices in line with Highway requirements preventing financial penalty.
- Liaise with field teams and plumbers to ensure customers needs are met.
- Ensuring all required plant and street-works notices are in place.
- Reporting on operational & commercial requirements including but not limited to Highways performance (FPN,Defects, Sec 74), Commercial Conversion, CSL & New connection performance & KPIs.
- Liaising with South East Water departments to provide operational information, work progress and details to help resolve customer complaints.
- Utilising Maximo start centres and reports to monitor and manage operational and commercial workload, updating and correcting work orders as and when required.
- Using information and resources to ensure that skills & knowledge are kept up to date and continuously developed.
- To work as part of the Waterlink team ensuring all targets and objectives are met by supporting other areas of the department when required.
You'll need:
Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- Achieved GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4/C (or equivalent)
- Strong organisational and communication skills. The ability to work as part of a team under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Strong customer services skills.
- Operational background, a knowledge of Maximo, Business objects, Hi affinity GIS/Geofield.
It will be a bonus if you have:
Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- An NVQ Qualification Level 2 or above in Customer Service/Business Administration and/or a recognised management qualification e.g. ILM.
- Previous scheduling experience
We want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.
We know the communities we serve are diverse. We recognise creativity comes from diversity not similarity. That’s why we are enthusiastic about creating inclusion across age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and identity. You will experience our dedication to equal opportunities and fair treatment for all: through your recruitment, employment and career progression with South East Water.
Benefits package:
- Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution.
- 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays per annum, increasing to 6 weeks with length of service.
- Flexible annual leave policy to buy or sell holiday leave.
- Paid volunteering days.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Health cash plan.
- Life assurance.
- Wellbeing related benefits.
What can you expect from your recruitment?
- To apply for this position, please submit your CV on our career’s website.
- It is necessary for you to have the legal right to work in the UK when you begin employment with South East Water.
- Additionally, as part of the employment offer, you will need to pass background, identity, and employment referencing checks.
If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, apply now!
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Compensation package:
£26,392.50 - £28,427.50
