At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead planning and control room operations, ensuring operational plans are delivered safely and efficiently.
- Company: Join Cadent, a leader in the East Midlands focused on operational excellence and customer satisfaction.
- Benefits: Enjoy private medical insurance, 25 days holiday, and an annual performance bonus of up to 15%.
- Other info: Experience with MRP systems and understanding of GSOP requirements is essential.
- Why this job: This role offers a chance to drive continuous improvement and lead a high-performing team.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in planning, scheduling, or programme management with strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
We’re looking for an experienced and driven Planning & Scheduling Manager to lead our planning and control room function across the East Midlands. This is a key leadership role, responsible for ensuring operational plans are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with customer and business expectations.
Why you’ll love this role
As a Planning & Scheduling Manager, you’ll play a critical role in translating strategy into delivery. You’ll lead a team responsible for planning and scheduling complex work programmes, ensuring visibility, resource alignment, and performance across multiple workstreams. This is a high impact role where you’ll combine leadership, data insight, and stakeholder collaboration to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead planning and control room operations
- Manage and develop the planning, scheduling, and control room team
- Ensure operational plans are delivered safely, efficiently, and on time
- Develop and optimise work programmes
- Oversee multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment and efficiency
- Work closely with internal teams, supply chain partners, and highway authorities
- Deliver against regulatory and business targets
- Drive performance & continuous improvement
- Analyse performance data and identify areas for improvement
- Use MI and insights to support decision making and planning efficiency
What you’ll bring
You’ll be a confident leader with strong operational and commercial awareness. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment and be passionate about driving performance, improving processes, and developing high performing teams.
Experience
- Proven experience in planning, scheduling, or programme management
- Experience working with MRP systems (essential)
Skills
- Good understanding of GSOP requirements, Jeopardy Management, and Streetworks
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to manage challenging conversations
- Analytical mindset with the ability to use data to drive improvements
Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance for you, your partner and your family available through MyChoices, our flexible benefits programme, with access to a 24 hour Bupa HealthLine
- 25 days’ holiday, plus 8 statutory days and an option to buy or sell holiday days
- An Annual Performance Bonus of up to 15% of your salary
- A generous pension scheme where the company double matches your contributions up to 12%
- A competitive salary that’s reviewed each year against the market median salary for your role, skills, knowledge and experience
- Generous family policies and flexible benefits
- A free Employee Assistance Line where you can get support and advice on any of the challenges you’re facing, completely confidentially
- Support to help you cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, examination fees and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role
- Plus many more benefits that help you join the dots between your work and home life!
Diversity and Inclusion
Don’t meet every requirement? No problem! If you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification mentioned, we would still love for you to submit your application – you may just be the right person for this role or other opportunities at Cadent. We value diversity and are committed to being an equitable employer. Our employee communities – Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), Thrive! (disability), the Cadent Military Community, the Grief Awareness Community, and the Men’s Engagement Network (M.E.N) – can’t wait to welcome you.
Planning and Scheduling Manager employer: Cadent Gas
Cadent offers a competitive salary reviewed annually and a generous pension scheme with double matching contributions. Located in the East Midlands, the company values diversity and supports various employee communities, fostering an inclusive workplace culture.
