At a Glance
- Tasks: Coordinate planning activities for essential infrastructure projects and ensure compliance with regulations.
- Company: Join a leading company dedicated to safeguarding water supply and enhancing environmental performance.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days annual leave, a contributory pension scheme, and access to retail discounts.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team that values integrity, collaboration, and ambition.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the utilities sector while developing your career in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in planning work activities and knowledge of NRSWA and TMA required.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
About The Role
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where you'll be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure. This role will be within our demand management and network infrastructure team. We look after 60 million meters and our teams provide advanced metering solutions to help manage demand for essential suppliers.
What you'll be doing?
- You’ll liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure works are delivered in line with project targets and work closely with the operational department to ensure works are delivered as planned & programmed.
- You’ll build strong relationships with all internal and external stakeholders based on integrity & trust and have detailed knowledge of the new roads and street works act (NRSWA).
- You’ll be responsible for the compliant planning and permitting of all works utilising internal and external systems, such as Street Manager.
- You will also be required to access Traffic Management drawings correctly and accurately to ensure compliant working & NRSWA requirements.
- You’ll have strong communication skills to deliver customer & operational excellence along with having an understanding of the Water Industry Regulation and working compliantly within a regulated industry.
- You’ll deliver work allocated to ensure productivity to achieve targets and goals as specified by our client and optimises operational external dig teams performance.
What you’ll bring
- Do you have proven experience of planning work activities in the utilities sector?
- Do you have experience of using Street Manager?
- Do you have knowledge of NRSWA and TMA?
- Are you someone with strong communications skills and ability to communicate at all levels?
- Do you have proven IT skills and ability to learn new systems, required to deliver planned activities?
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:
- Contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
- Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!
In addition, this role offers:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Discretionary bonus scheme
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
Planning Coordinator 12 Month FTC in Reading employer: M Group
As a Planning Coordinator at M Group, you'll join a dynamic team dedicated to delivering essential infrastructure services while fostering a friendly and respectful work environment. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, we offer comprehensive benefits including a contributory pension scheme, enhanced leave options, and access to industry-recognised training programmes, ensuring you thrive both personally and professionally. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion, alongside our support for army veterans, makes us an employer of choice in the utilities sector.
