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Are you a dynamic Administrator looking to take the next step in your career?

Within this role, you will join our Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks - Southwest Water team and we will teach you everything you need to know to become an efficient and effective planner. You will support by planning the field-based team's daily work, dealing with priority reactive water maintenance assigned by Southwest Water.

Our Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks team aims to bring the built environment to life, keeping people and businesses connected. In this role, you will be working on our South West Water contract, where we work on repairs and maintenance services to provide reliable, efficient, and high-quality drinking water and wastewater services.

In this office-based role of Planning Administrator, you will play a vital part in planning and coordinating urgent reactive works, such as arranging the deployment of teams to assist in water leakage repairs. You will support our on-site teams and supervisors in our depots covering the Cornwall and Devon region. You will also be responsible for the day-to-day planning of teams in the area, including arranging streetworks permits, road closures, traffic management and planning the team’s use of specialised equipment.

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £22,000 - £24,000 dependant on experience

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Area Planners – receiving jobs, details and sanity checking the information for the planning teams.

• Maintaining the systems and databases and always ensuring the accuracy of records

• Assisting with the scheduling and coordinating of planned and reactive work for the teams

What do we need from you?

• Excellent IT skills – proficient in Microsoft Office packages

• Be highly organised and able to prioritize and schedule tasks efficiently

• Enjoy picking up the phone, and working in a busy and fast-paced environment

• If you don’t have experience in a similar role, we’ll train you on the rest!

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at [email protected] to discuss and arrange these.

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

• new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more

• professional subscription - you will get one professional subscription funded to support your professional development.
• pension - you will be able to join the Kier Retirement Savings Plan (KRSP)
• Kier rewards - You will have access to discounted shopping including restaurants, insurance companies, and supermarkets
• And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website.

Who is Kier?

As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.

We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives. You can see more about our D&I action plan here.

Closing Date: 14 August 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.