Department: Cadent

Location: Worsley Compensation: £42,000 - £45,000 / year

Description

As an Assistant Planning Manager, you will assist the Planning Manager in providing support to ensure that the clients' work is effectively programmed meeting SLAs and customers’ expectations - through communication with internal and external sources, as well as key focus on the management of streetworks performance across the contract.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for someone to:

• Assist in taking ownership of the workstreams, coordinating the work from receipt, through to job completion.
• Overseeing the scheduling of work in accordance with SLA and permits.
• Reporting weekly of streetworks performance to SLT, operations, LDPs and wider team – mitigating and monitoring performance and driving continual improvements within the CMO. Including driving successful recording and root cause identification for all financial penalties (S74 & FPNs).
• You will manage the end-to-end defect and interim process including controlled feedback to the Client, LDP and Local Authorities as required.
• Understanding the SAP system ensuring your team use it correctly.
• Liaise with SDS/SDM/OM and LDPs to ensure programmes are delivered.
• To ensure that all the client and operational requirements are met in a professional and efficient manner.
• You will ensure comments are fed into the Street Manager; coaching and upskilling all teams to improve communications and relationships with the Local Authority.
• Continue to develop and maintain HA relationships, driving regular meetings with all areas (dependant on work volumes within a specific HA).
• To provide daily and weekly reports as required and to ensure that all service levels and objectives are achieved.
• To provide a positive and innovative input into the team, through provision of solutions to problems and embracing change, including depot visits where required.