Admin Team Leader

Networkplus; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A utilities management company is seeking an Admin Team Leader to manage a team of Planners and Schedulers. Responsibilities include ensuring effective resource management, monitoring team performance, and resolving scheduling issues. Ideal candidates will have prior experience in utilities and strong leadership skills. A competitive salary and benefits package are provided.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Full benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience working in Utilities preferred.
• Ability to lead and mentor a team.
• Excellent multitasking abilities under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Manage and efficiently resource your team.
• Monitor performance and productivity.
• Resolve in-day planning and scheduling issues.

Skills

Experience in Utilities

Planning / Coordinator Experience

Team Management

Prioritisation

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Logical thinking

Job description

Admin Team Leader

Department: Severn Trent Water

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Brunel House, Derby

Reporting To: Eleanor Bird

Compensation: £29,874 / year

Description

42.5 hours p/w (including 30 minute unpaid lunch)

07:00-15:30

As Admin Team Team Leader, you will manage a team of Planners and Schedulers who plan, schedule, dispatch and organise work, delivered by the supporting operational teams. The planning and scheduling function is at the core of the contract and has a huge influence over productivity of operational resources, customer service and safety. Demand for work may undergo large peaks, especially in certain seasons of the year where demand may be high or temperatures drop and fluctuate.

You will be expected to steer your team of planners respond to peaks and troughs in workloads and adopt a flexible working arrangement. You will lead by example, demonstrating fantastic adherence to quality performance metrics and most importantly, customer service.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for someone to:

• Manage and efficiently resource your team, including any OOH and weekend requirements, ensuring the office operation has adequate coverage, aligning to the field operation
• Monitor the performance of your team – considering aspects such as work basket size, maintaining resource data in the scheduling system, maximising the productivity of gangs – particularly in respect of minimising travel times / distances where possible
• Review planning dependencies, such as Streetworks notices, permits, traffic management requirements and ensure that all work dispatched to teams have fundamental safety pre-requisites completed accurately
• Own and resolve any in-day planning and scheduling issues, which may have a negative impact on Network Plus’s performance
• Ensure compliance is maintained in line with contractual KPIs and SLAs for R&M and Leakage services
• Manage the office environment with line management responsibility for a minimum of 4 Planners and Schedulers

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• deally you will have experience working in Utilities previously
• Experience in a planning / coordinator role
• Experience of running and mentoring a team
• Ability to prioritise workload, multi-task and work under tight time pressures
• Excellent communication skills
• High attention to detail
• Logical mind

Job Benefits

We offer a competitive salary based on experience along with a full benefits package.

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