Network Planner

3 weeks ago


Bristol, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

**Your new role**

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Network Planner to join our team in the Southwest region. The Network Planner will undertake the development of occupancy schedules and manage their delivery through National Highways teams or third-party partners.

This role can be based in either our Bristol or Exeter office and will be a hybrid mix of home and office working, with the requirement to regularly travel to other offices within the region.

**What you’ll lead on**
- To undertake the timely and accurate collation and recording of network occupancy, in order to ensure that road space pace bookings can be managed in a way that minimises disruption to customers and maximises operational delivery.
- Proactively analyse the effectiveness of existing plans and arrangements in meeting service level expectations and identify opportunities for improvement; escalate risks and issues that affect delivery.
- Proactively liaise with regional Operations colleagues (e.g. Service Delivery and Scheme Delivery) and wider internal and external stakeholders to optimise network availability and minimise the impact of planned and unplanned events on customers.
- Deliver timely and accurate engagement, communications and updates to stakeholders regarding network occupancy including preparation of management reports, debriefs and lessons learnt.
- To undertake management of Abnormal Loads and Utilities requests in the region, ensuring relevant procedures are followed, impacts managed and stakeholders informed.

**To be Successful**
- Experience and/or an understanding of road space planning procedures and systems
- Knowledge of being a driver and journey planning on the strategic network, and understanding how the impact the decisions you make will affect the customer
- Experience in highway maintenance and/or technical administration role demonstrating proficiency in a range of Office Software products while keeping a high level of attention to detail.
- Able to deal with change within your team and the wider business while maintaining delivery and customer service with the ability to reprioritise work in a dynamic environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrating the ability to proactively take ownership of work in a small team making effective independent decisions.

**A bit about us**

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.

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