Junior Planner

**Role Overview**

This position sits within the Finance and Administration department and will share planning responsibility with the Service Business Controller. We are after someone who is enthusiastic with good organisational skills with the ability to learn and grow within our business. If you are good at planning and are a logical thinker, then this could be the job for you.

**Why Join Us?**
- A salary package of £22,000 to £25,000 (based on experience and expertise).
- Employee Mentoring Program - Opportunities to grow and mentor.
- Company Events - Because we love celebrating victories.
- Free onsite parking - No parking hassles here.
- Modern open plan office - think pool table and collaboration spaces.
- Health and Wellbeing Cash Plan.
- Company Pension to secure your future.
- Total holiday package of 31 days to fully rest and recharge.
- Employer-sponsored office attire - elevate your professional look.
- Early Friday finishes

**The Role**

You will use our scheduling system and technology to effectively plan engineers’ day to day work schedules, taking pride in delivering a first-class experience to our customers in a concise, timely and efficient manner. You must be able to respond to short notices changes in the plan and be able to modify this with minimum impact to its overall integrity.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Liaise with external clients to agree date and time for planned engineering jobs according to their needs.
- Communicate with engineers and to make sure they have full details for all jobs carried out for the week.
- When planning engineers work ensure all jobs for that site including outstanding works are booked in the same day.
- Good geographical knowledge of the UK to best plan engineers, considering travel time, holidays, training, and last-minute cancellations.
- Being responsive to changes in the schedule and liaising with relevant team members.
- Smart Planning - we expect all jobs allocated to the engineers to be as close to each other to minimise travel time between jobs.
- Monitoring the shared inbox for incoming jobs.

**Key Skills**
- Relevant work experience with a strong admin background.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of office management systems and procedures, Office365, Sharepoint, Clockshark scheduling system.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
- Outstanding organisational & time management skills.

**Knowledge and Experience**

In house training will be provided.

**Location**

The applicant must be located within 45 minutes of Macclesfield, Cheshire.
- Job type_: Full time, Office Based, Monday-Friday.

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person