Senior Network Planner – Resilience

Your New Role

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Network Planner – Resilience to join our team in the North West region. The Senior Network Planner will provide leadership, subject matter expertise and guidance, assuring the development and delivery of resilience, emergency, winter and sever weather response plans. The Senior Network Planner will also lead in liaison with local resilience forums (LRF’s) and emergency services, escalating through to crisis management manual (CMM) and will chair sever weather and planned major events.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role and you will need to have a full driving license to be considered for this position and during employment.

What you’ll be leading on

To provide subject matter expertise and guidance to a team of Network Planners or relevant parties in the development of regional resilience, emergency, winter and severe weather plans that serve to minimise disruption to customers, whilst maximising operational delivery.
To lead the development of relevant processes and procedures, ensuring they adopt best practice, intelligence insights and ad-hoc changes for maximum customer benefit.
Manage the regional diversion routes, liaising with relevant parties to ensure they remain relevant and up to date; identify and resolve any closures or diversion route conflicts in line with existing procedures, escalating to the Network Availability Manager any issues which cannot be addressed.
To proactively analyse the effectiveness of existing plans and arrangements in meeting service level expectations and implement improvement initiatives; manage risks and issues that affect delivery.
Proactively liaise with regional Operations colleagues (e.g. Service Delivery and Scheme Delivery) and wider internal and external stakeholders to optimise network availability and minimise the impact of planned and unplanned events on customers.
Take responsibility for the health and safety of the wider teams and yourself by challenging, reporting and acting on any unsafe activities or conditions.

To be successful you’ll need

Extensive knowledge of winter and severe weather service and verification
Previous experience in highway maintenance and / or technical administration
Experience of flooding contingency planning and business continuity planning
Proficiency in office software products to enable production / maintenance of documents, spreadsheets, and management reports.
Experience in people or stakeholder management.

A bit about us

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future. 

Want to know more?

To request a copy of the role profile, please contact hrhighwaysengland@mailgc.cx.ukg.oraclecloud.com quoting reference number  #5106