Reactive Scheduler - Nights

Lanes Group

The Role

Overview

Night‑shift scheduler allocating wastewater jobs, ensuring SLAs & emergency response.

Key Responsibilities

  • resource allocation
  • kpi management
  • emergency response
  • compliance checking
  • scheduling regime
  • client relations

Tasks

-Be aware of all Lanes Group policies and your responsibilities towards them. -To be a role model for customer excellence and ensure that all staff and operatives embrace and implement the customer service aspirations of the Contract. -To ensure all work is allocated to Field Staff to enable KPI’s, Customer promises and productivity targets to be met and customers are updated where delays occur. -To give assistance, support and guidance on all customer related issues as they arise and escalate issues to Senior Scheduler in a timely manner. -Ensure all resources are utilised effectively - maximising output whilst minimising cost. -To ensure any emergency response requirements such as pollution and internal floods are actioned and resolved in accordance with all stakeholder requirements, supporting both the Client and any other agencies involved. -To ensure full compliance via WNS work checking and raise follow on activities via VISTEC as required. -Establish positive and productive client relationships, ensuring regular, constructive two-way communication. -To allocate all works associated with waste water network within service level agreements and as promised to the customer on behalf of Southern Water. -Comply with health and safety standards. -Work closely with Field Management teams to maximise resources and ensure customer issues are resolved as timely as possible and to an industry leading standard. -Act as a customer champion supporting the design and implementation of customer experience initiatives and protecting Lanes Group brand and reputation and safeguarding against future claims and disputes. -Anticipate future operational or compliance risks, mitigating or escalating as required. -Ensure end to end process compliance, identifying and removing blockers and ineffective ways of working. -To support the development and implementation of a comprehensive scheduling regime which fully aligns with the Client’s own Customer Vision and ‘Customer Journey’ and supports Lanes Group operational requirements.

Requirements

  • microsoft 365
  • communication
  • multitasking
  • initiative
  • interpersonal

What You Bring

-Have basic knowledge of Microsoft 365 -Have solid communication skills (both written and verbal) with professional telephone etiquette -Multi-task, prioritise, work under pressure and on own initiative -Have the ability to deal with people at different levels -Have great interpersonal skills to create relationships with the team, engineers, and wider Lanes Group network

The Company

About Lanes Group

-It grew through strategic acquisitions and expansion into new service areas. -It secured major contracts with Thames Water and Southern Water, handling citywide sewer maintenance. -Its work spans large‑scale infrastructure including railway drainage on Crossrail and UV trenchless sewer relining on UK motorways. -Today, it operates a national network of depots, utility hubs and specialist divisions like Lanes‑i, Sapphire and AQS.

Sector Specialisms

Drainage

Sewer

Septic Tank

Wastewater

Water Utilities

Gas Supply Networks

Rail Sector

Commercial

Domestic

Infrastructure

Utilities