Works Scheduler

**About the role**
The opportunity to create is all around you. Whatever your level, whatever your role, whatever the project, you’ll be able to take initiative here and get stuck in. Join our **UKCS - Balfour Beatty Living Places team** as a **Works Scheduler** and shape something special.
**What you'll be doing**

**Constructing Excellence**
- Day-to-day planning of reactive delivery, contributing towards efficient and effective performance of the team.
- Review actual performance of the team against planned assumptions and escalate to Agents and

Senior Agents if targets aren’t upheld.
- Propose and support changes to support a culture of continual improvement.
- Ensure daily work schedules are correct and that gangs are deployed in effective manner
- Provide reports and complete statutory paperwork as required.
- Support the implementation of changes to facilitate continual improvement.
- Liaise with Agents and Senior Agents to ensure best utilisation of materials, equipment and manpower.
- Managing Confirm works info and data
- Provide routine and timely programme updates to works scheduled.
- Supports and contributes towards continuous improvement.

**Health, Safety and Quality**:

- Embedding the culture of Zero Harm through the scheduling of works.
- Plan works in line with statutory and company procedures and ensure compliance with all statutory

and company procedures across all the SHEQ functions
- Identifying any risks involved with the works and passing to the Agents and Senior Agents.

**Customer Focus**
- Work pro-actively to build strong client relationships with WSCC counterparts and other stakeholders.
- Liaising with members of the client team to ensure that the client’s needs are met and provide effective delivery and solutions through industry experience.

**Detailed Knowledge / Experience**
- understanding of importance and experience of planning to deadlines.
- Ideally have previous experience in Reactive Highways Works.
- Works well as part of a team as well as on your own.
- Good communication skills, verbal and written with ability to deal with difficult or confrontational

**Who we're looking for**
- Experience of working on a Highways Maintenance Contract
- Good interpersonal skills and communication.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Adaptable to changing situations
- Teamwork
- Works programming skills
- Understanding of works programming systems (ideally Confirm although not essential).
- Good knowledge and use of MS Suites.

**Desirable Qualifications**
- NRSWA ideally units 1 to 16.
- LANTRA NHSS 12d.
- CSCS
- 1 Day Health and Safety Awareness

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

**Why join us?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

**About us**
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK08961