Planner - Highways - Leeds, United Kingdom - Amey

Amey

Verified Company

Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

Your New Role;

We have a fantastic opportunity for a
Permanent Highways Planner to join our
Area 12 Highways account in Doncaster or Leeds - Hybrid working.

Amey is working in partnership with Area 12 Highways England since June 2021. Area 12 is made up of 476km dual carriageway, 179km single carriageway and 1,963 structures.

We provide routine, cyclic and winter maintenance and response across Yorkshire and Humberside, also overseeing traffic management during incidents and the operation of the ten maintenance depots in the region.

Ensuring our roads are well
- maintained and well
- managed, through all-weather seasons we aim to help reduce traffic incidents and severity of road accidents as well as ensure road user of Yorkshire and Humberside feel safer.

Planner plays an important part in assisting the Customer and Community Representative and Senior Planner on a Highways England Maintenance and Response contract to develop, maintain and deliver the highway cyclic and reactive maintenance programme in Area 12.

The standard hours of work are full time 37.5 hours per week.

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we're open to discussing working options that suit you.

You will be responsible for:

Receiving, planning and programming of reactive work orders from National Highways Confirm System
Utilising Amey Works Management System carry out preworks coordination of works required.
Manage and monitor progress of works from creation to completion and develop an appropriate action plan where works are falling behind programme
Liaise with the Operations Managers to ensure that decisions/directions are consistent with the achievement of quality, safety, programme and financial objectives
Understand the Road Space Booking Requirements and converse with Chapter
Load Network Occupancy Event numbers into the programme numbers
Forecast and monitor the financial performance of the projects portfolio, providing regular (minimum monthly) detailed reports, comparing actual and forecast performance to plan expectations and explaining variations
Work with the Area Managers to ensure resources have been allocated to deliver the programme
Accept and validate works orders and allocate to the delivery team
Maintain and develop key client contacts to maximise future business opportunities
Arrange and chair meetings between Amey, the Client and their contractors to enable the benefits to be maximized with the sharing of Road Space during Maintenance and scheme works.

We want to hear from you if you have/are: currently working in a similar position
and will have experience of reactive and planned maintenance planning. Traffic management experience and planning.**Ideally you will have the following competencies:

Problem Solving
Commercial Awareness
Managing Projects
Planning and Organizing
Risk Management
Managing Change
Client Service
Environmental Awareness for Managers
Personal Highways Safety

In addition to this, it would be desirable if you have
knowledge of the Area 12 network to help you hit the ground running, although this is not essential as we will provide you with the required development you need to bring you up to speed

What we offer you

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life's ups and downs.

It's the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers and we have a competitive reward and benefits program
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Career Development

Exceptional development and progression plan

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Pension

Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to

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Holidays:

Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays

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Choices:

Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership

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Save with Amey

Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers

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Social Value:

You'll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives

We embrace difference and
support individuals to work in ways that work best for them.

We are
committed to working
sustainably and by
working in partnership with the communities we serve, so
people and the planet
are protected.

At Amey,
you have freedom to perform because we know if nothing holds you back, together, we can be extraordinary.

Who is Amey?