# Planner - 5 months

**Company**: Royal Borough of Greenwich
**Location**: Royal Borough of Greenwich
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 35,520 - 36,585 per year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

We are seeking a Planner to join our System and Scheduling Team within the Repairs & Investment department on a fixed-term contract for 5 months.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Allocating appointments for unallocated works orders and re-appointing incomplete orders

- Monitoring and managing the diary of trade operatives and staff to ensure work is picked up and progressed during the day

- Recording unavailability and absence and reallocating work as necessary

- Assessing the availability of resources against demand for appointments

- Delivering all programmes within agreed timescales and ensuring all appointments are completed on a daily basis

- Ensuring the delivery of the Repairs Service is smooth and efficient

As a Planner, you will need:

- A customer-orientated approach to ensure best value for money in the delivery of works

- Excellent observational skills and the ability to react to information as presented

- Good knowledge of the construction industry, including materials, trades, and building methods

- Excellent organisational, communication, and negotiating skills

- Excellent written communication skills

- Excellent IT skills and experience of planning, ordering, and scheduling systems

- The ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with staff at all levels

A good knowledge of the building maintenance industry is desirable.

The salary for this role is GBP 35,520 - 36,585 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- construction industry knowledge
- organisational skills
- communication skills
- negotiating skills
- IT skills
- planning and scheduling systems

### Nice to have
- building maintenance industry knowledge

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