Planning and Scheduling Manager

Engineering Services West Midlands to £45,000 + benefitsRef: 10460The CompanyOur client is an established and expanding provider of specialist facilities and technical services, supporting a broad customer base across the UK. With continued investment in its operational capability, the business is now looking to strengthen its planning function through the appointment of an experienced Planning and Scheduling Manager.The RoleReporting to the Head of Operations, you will take responsibility for the effective planning, scheduling and deployment of a field-based technical workforce. The role will focus on improving visibility, utilisation and operational efficiency across multiple service lines, ensuring work is planned and delivered in the most effective and commercially sensible way. This will include managing the allocation of field-based resources, maintaining forward visibility of capacity and demand, and monitoring utilisation, downtime, travel time and overtime. You will also produce operational reports and performance analysis, coordinate resources for larger projects, planned works and customer shutdowns, and help improve planning processes, systems and ways of working across the business.The PersonYou will have experience in planning, scheduling, resource coordination or workforce deployment within a field-based service environment. Highly organised and commercially aware, you will be confident managing competing priorities, improving processes and working with ..... full job details .....