RRV Planner

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Rail UK team as a RRV Planner (12 month fixed term) and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

As an RRV Planner, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Assimilating customer requirements for delivery of works
• Planning and allocation of machinery to meet Customer requirements
• To liaise with the OTP maintenance and operations teams as necessary
• Liaising with Customers and third parties to ensure understanding and delivery of customers requirements
• Updating planning spreadsheets
• Liaising with external contractors and suppliers for resourcing needs
• Forecasting external requirements and operational shifts
• To provide any statistical or other information as required
• To ensure electronic and manual filing systems/records are maintained for audit purposes.
• Ability to supply future work plans, plant utilisation and forecasting data as required
• To comply with all Company policies and procedures including Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality.
• Instigate and contribute to cost efficient ways of delivery
• Manage the performance of suppliers on our contracts

TASKS

• Run with the current week planning making sure the current week work is going as planned and the weekend work is locked in
  • Make machine changes where required - breakdowns etc.
  • Make operator changes where required - absence, skill set etc.
  • Book and confirm hotels/travel with support team
  • Book and confirm cross hire where required(if needed last minute)
  • Collate all on call documents ready for the weekend and handover to the Control Centre
• Haulage
  • Book delivery and collection of plant and equipment as per the customer requirements
  • Raise orders for the haulier
• PPS
  • Daily complete and submit on the NwR PPS system
• Cost control
  • Ensure Efficiencies on Planning and operational delivery costs including expenses, fuel, haulage, operational overtime,

You will have the following:

• Technical Skills
• Knowledge and experience of the Railway Industry preferred
• A good understanding and (or) experience of planning software
• IT literate including knowledge of Microsoft systems & other databases
• Proficient in Excel and Word

• Role requirements skills
  • High attention to detail
  • Planning & organising
  • Experience of Customer relations
  • Written & verbal communication skills
  • Commercial and financial awareness
  • Customer focus
  • Decision making
  • Results focus
  • Communication
  • Managing HSES
  • Teamwork/ Collaboration

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Our Rail business has an extensive legacy of rail expertise. Our teams safely deliver complex projects, from consultancy and design to all aspects of construction and maintenance. Using advanced plant and machinery, and unique innovations, we provide end-to-end solutions for our customers.

Our aim is to improve the passenger’s experience, and our teams create better journeys by increasing network capacity, improving reliability, and making our railways more efficient and sustainable.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ’Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/