Utilities Planner role at Network Plus, an award-winning UK utility and infrastructure services provider, acting as the key pre-start contact to plan and coordinate streetworks and operational delivery. You’ll own workstreams from receipt to completion, ensuring schedules meet SLAs, NRSWA compliance, and minimising financial exposure. Standout perk: competitive salary (experience-based) plus full benefits package.
- Full benefits package
- Award-winning utilities infrastructure business
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Description
As a Utilities Planner, you will be the key contact before works for the operational team. You will have full accountability for the planning & streetworks aspects of all works before they commence on site. You will ensure that all operational teams are able to undertake their work in line with the received push plans and requested dates as well as compliant with NRSWA and ensure that timescales are adhered to minimising any financial impact to the company.
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for someone to:
- Take ownership of the workstreams, coordinating the work from receipt, through to job completion
- Schedule work orders in accordance with SLA’s, whilst optimising travel routes and increasing productivity
- Identify noticing issues and apply early intervention, to ensure that all information derived from inspections and other sources is correctly handled to ensure correct response from utilities and other promoters of Street Works activity and to minimise challenges to Section 74 invoices and FPNs
- Maintain timely and accurate input and uploading of information into the works management systems, ensuring that all issues are recorded and escalated
- Ensure that all the client and operational requirements are met in a professional and efficient manner
- Provide daily and weekly reports as required and to ensure that all service levels and objectives are achieved
- Provide a positive and innovative input into the team, through provision of solutions to problems and embracing change
- Ensure that safety issues are reported in line with Company procedures
Experience and Qualifications
- Ideally you will have experience working in Utilities previously
- Experience in a planning / coordinator role
- Ability to prioritise workload, multi-task and work under tight time pressures
- Excellent communication skills
- High attention to detail
- Logical mind
Salary and Benefits
We offer a competitive salary based on experience along with a full benefits package.
Network Plus is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
We are Armed Forces-friendly. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, armed forces veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
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About Network Plus
Network Plus is an award-winning business delivering essential utility and infrastructure services for the UK’s major providers of gas, power, telecoms, transport, water, and wastewater.
We value the variety of experience, perspective, and other points of difference our workforce, clients, and supply chain offer.
We are actively working with colleagues across the Network Plus Group to develop an inclusive environment – we want all our employees to feel valued and included to enable everyone to thrive at work and understand the value of their contribution matters no matter their background, identity, or circumstances.
