Scheduler

**About the role** Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Scheduler to join our Living Places business unit to work at our Pode Hole Depot in Lincolnshire.

Role Purpose:

- Responsible for the planning of all types of reactive / revenue / emergency works using Confirm whilst ensuring that sufficient works are allocated to operational resources to achieve optimum productivity and contractual response times;
- Ensuring a right first-time approach is achieved across all aspects of planning and delivery through validation of incoming works, client liaison for issue resolution and auditing of completed works to ensure data accuracy;
- End to end management of the planning of project specific reactive maintenance activities.

**What you'll be doing** As a Scheduler you will be:
Planning and Allocation of works:

- Review of incoming works to ensure required information is provided (Job Packs / TM Forms etc);
- Detailed validation of incoming works to include an assessment of information to complete the works and specialist materials or plant requirements;
- Scheduling of works;
- Liaise with the works originator over any queries;
- Act as focal point for client liaison for jobs whereby information is insufficient to aid a right first-time approach to delivery;
- Interfacing with construction teams to maximise opportunities for joint planning and delivery;
- Planning and monitoring of all reactive works;
- Highlight and potential clashes on the network which could impact on countywide programmes.

Project specific routine maintenance activities:

- liaison with clients to determine scope of works;
- Communication with members of the client team to determine approval of work scope;
- Communication with members of the client team throughout the works delivery;
- Management of programme.
- Supports and contributes to continuous improvement;
Supply Chain:

- Allocation of works to subcontractors;
- Monitoring/management of works planned and completed by subcontractors;
Client:

- Resolution of queries relating to planned and completed works;
- Management of jobs in query list;
- Reporting of information as required by the client team.

General:

- Supporting the delivery of winter service provision;
- Deputise for Schedulers to cover periods of absence.

**Who we're looking for** Personal Qualities and Experience:

- Experience of working on a Highways Maintenance Contract including operational;
- A good knowledge of permit and streetlighting would be an advantageous;
- Understanding of emergency and winter service operations;
- Good level of Business Acumen;
- Good interpersonal skills: communication, can provide clear direction;
- Excellent organisational skills;
- Adaptable to changing situations;
- Teamwork;
- Root cause problem solving;
- Commercial Awareness;
- Understanding of basic works programming;
- Use of IT systems; specifically excel.

**Why work for us** Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

**About us** The way we live our lives is changing fast: where and how we live, work, travel, shop, relax and socialise. The evolving nature of our society means we all need to shape our environment to meet a complex array of individual and collective needs.

Living Places works in partnership with Local Authorities to consult, finance, design, build and manage the essential place infrastructure that local communities and national economies need to prosper and grow.

We are right at the heart of a dynamic place shaping agenda that brings Local Authorities, local communities, Central Government, and the Private Sector together to create safe, sustainable, flexible and dynamic public spaces geared to community social need,economic growth and personal well-being as well as being environmentally sustainable.

The provision of maintenance services for highways is only a small part of what is really needed. Our focus has moved beyond the road to deliver the potential of the street: a dynamic public place that connects and combines local community and business needs,encourages social interaction and helps pedestrians, motorists, bus riders, and cyclists to coexist safely. Building great public spaces with resource efficient assets enables functional, flexible and inspirational places to be at the heart of the community.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensurewe deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full onour website.