National Highways
Senior Network Planner - Occupancy
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About the job
Are you experienced in network management and delivery?
Do you have sound data and information management skills?
Then National Highways have the role for you!
We’re looking for a Senior Network Planner (Occupancy) to join our South East team to provide leadership, subject matter expertise and guidance to assure the development, delivery and maintenance of Network Occupancy schedules.
This role will be worked on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days per week in either Maidstone or Basingstoke office.
- Lead effective planning of network occupancy schedules, abnormal load movements, and third party works in a way that optimises the network’s overall availability and ensures road space can be managed in a way that minimises disruption to customers, whilst maximising operational delivery.
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to a team of Network Planners or relevant parties in the development of regional occupancy schedules, ensuring they adopt best practice, intelligence insights, and ad-hoc changes for maximum customer benefit.
- Ensure relevant documentation, information, materials, service delivery manuals, requirements and guidance are kept up to date and accessible to the wider regional teams.
- Proactively analyse the effectiveness of existing plans and arrangements in meeting service level expectations and identify opportunities for improvement; escalate risks and issues that affect delivery.
- Lead on decision making with conflicting priorities using evidence based approach.
About you
- Extensive knowledge of road space planning procedures and relevant technology systems
- Proficiency in office software products to enable production/maintenance of documents, spreadsheets and management reports.
- Experience of delivering through other teams, influencing internal and external stakeholders to follow new processes and procedures.
- Demonstrate effective decision making skills, using sound judgement to assess options, manage risks, and make timely decisions within a team or across a department.
- Good communication and people management skills.
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About us
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.
We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.
A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.
We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.
Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.
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Our benefits package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience
And we are
- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:
- Right to work check
- 3 year employment history references
- DBS criminal record check
- Social media and adverse journalism check
- Driving licence check (if applicable)
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
- Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)
And finally
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