POLING PLANNER/COORDINATOR

Description

• Communicate effectively with field teams, supervisors, and the Openreach control centre to ensure smooth delivery of work.
• Liaise with Openreach planners, field engineers and Subcontractors to ensure all jobs are validated, scoped, and ready for execution with SLA.
• Plan and schedule daily and weekly work programmes for engineers undertaking telecoms pole replacements.
• Provide daily and weekly reports on progress, completion rates, and outstanding issues to management and Openreach stakeholders.
• Ensure resource allocation aligns with operational capacity and project deadlines.
• Maintain and update planning systems (e.g., Excel trackers internal databases, spreadsheets) to track job progress and completions.
• Coordinate with local authorities to obtain permits and traffic management requirements for pole works.
• Identify potential risks or delays in the schedule and proactively implement mitigation plans.

Requirements

• Competent in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and other planning tools or databases.
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities.
• Confident communicator with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills with strong attention to detail.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance