Planner in Leeds, Yorkshire

Based in Leeds with agile and home-working opportunities, we are looking to recruit a Planner within Flow & Water Quality Monitoring. The purpose of this role is to support the Water Quality Monitoring department by creating comprehensive work packages for field crews, coordinating site access, and managing incoming site data to ensure inspections and installations are delivered safely, legally and efficiently.

The tasks you will undertake will include (but are not limited to):

• Identify and prioritise sites for inspection and installation by field crews using client-provided data, MapInfo (GIS software), Land Registry information, Flood Risk Maps and Google Maps.
• Assess site suitability and access requirements for the installation of field-based monitoring equipment.
• Liaise with landowners and business owners to arrange site access and obtain required permissions.
• Generate Land Entry Notices (LENS) in MapInfo using information from site investigations and Land Registry records.
• Coordinate with field crews to resolve site access issues, provide supporting information and ensure efficient scheduling.
• Develop daily and weekly work plans for field crews using Teamleaf, ensuring all access permissions and legal requirements are in place.
• Manage incoming site data including paperwork, electronic site sheets and photographic records, maintaining accurate and up-to-date datasets.
• Prepare reports and provide performance insights on crews and contracts as required.
• Support the continuous improvement of planning procedures and processes within Teamleaf.
• Liaise with external clients to ensure effective coordination and service delivery.

To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Good computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office packages (Essential).
• Previous experience in a planning, scheduling or coordination role (Essential).
• Experience scheduling work for field-based teams (Essential).
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and manage multiple tasks (Essential).
• Working knowledge of MapInfo or other GIS-based software (Desirable).
• Ability to adapt quickly to bespoke systems such as Teamleaf (Desirable).
• Knowledge of NRSWA / Street Works (Desirable).
• Strong communication skills when liaising with landowners, clients and field crews.

About SOCOTEC Flow & Water Quality Monitoring: We provide market leading environmental data collection and monitoring services. Established over 30 years ago, Flow & Water Quality Monitoring give their clients peace of mind in supporting them to reduce environmental risks and improving the quality of their natural environment. Our customers include large blue-chip consultancies and water companies. We are an ambitious team who are focused on growth, putting our customers at the heart of what we do, and we live our values of happy people, happy customers, working safely and being successful.

What’s in it for you? As well as a salary of £26,208 per year depending on experience, which can increase as you develop and grow in the role, we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension.

SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.

Why SOCOTEC? Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers. We have several business streams that provide an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, certification and advisory services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. At SOCOTEC, we believe that a driven, inspired and challenged team is the key to success. We promote inclusivity, encourage individuality and have a zero-tolerance policy to discrimination, with the aim that every single member of our team will thrive both in and out of the workplace. We invest in our people. We push you to grow and we want you to progress. We believe in continued development and the pursuit of ambition. Our open and friendly office space promotes a culture of teamwork and provides the opportunity to ask, listen and learn from those around you. With a young, dynamic and exciting workplace, we are constantly striving, as a team, to develop and succeed.

Think you’ve got what it takes to add value to our success? We would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application. Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.