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About The Role
Based in Slough, the Customer Planner position with Pertemps Thames Water sits within the Customer Solution Centre. This full-time, 12-month fixed-term contract pays between £26,000 and £30,000, dependent on experience. You will orchestrate daily schedules for field engineers, ensuring they possess correct details, tools, and expertise to fix wastewater and drainage concerns promptly. Acting as a key customer contact, you will explain progress, offer reassurance, and evaluate information to support accurate diagnosis. Strong organisational abilities and clear, friendly communication are essential for coordinating resources effectively and keeping residents informed throughout each job. This role suits someone methodical who thrives on problem-solving and delivering reliable service.
We’re looking for a friendly, organised Customer Planner to join our Customer Solution Centre team in Slough.
This is a busy and rewarding role where you’ll help plan work for our field engineers, making sure they have the right information, skills and equipment to resolve customer issues first time. You’ll be at the heart of the customer journey, supporting customers through wastewater and drainage issues and keeping them informed from start to finish.
Please note that this is a 12-month fixed-term contract.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Customer Planner
- Planning and allocating work for field teams to keep the day running smoothly.
- Speaking with customers to understand their issue, offer reassurance and provide clear updates.
- Reviewing information to help diagnose problems and arrange the right work.
- Monitoring planned work throughout the day and responding to changing priorities.
- Working closely with engineers, scheduling teams, operations and partners.
- Supporting customers with more complex or sensitive journeys, including repeat internal flooding cases.
- Using systems such as Salesforce, SAP, Smart Agent and Microsoft Office.
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Working hours: Monday to Friday 7 am to 3 pm/8 am to 4 pm/ 9 am to 4 pm
Location: Slough, 9 Cambridge Ave, Slough, Berkshire England, SL1 4PJ - hybrid format with Tuesday and Wednesday from the office
What You Should Bring To The Role
- Experience in a fast-paced customer service environment, including inbound and proactive phone calls, with planning experience.
- A customer-focused approach, strong organisational skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Confidence in handling sometimes difficult conversations calmly and professionally.
- Good computer skills, including Excel.
- SAP and Salesforce experience would be helpful.
- Experience planning work for field-based teams would be advantageous.
What’s in it for you?
- This role will be paid from £26,000 to £30,000 per annum depending on skills and experience.
- 24 days holiday per year, increasing to 28 with length of service (plus bank holidays).
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of yourself and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment)
Who are we?
We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.
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Working at Thames Water
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.
If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.
Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.
We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.
When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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