Programme Planner
As Programme Planner You will be actively engaged in coordinating activity with key customers and internal teams as ESP leads the way to help our customers roll-out Electric Vehicle charging points across the country, enabling progress towards net-zero.
You will be joining a highly successful and growing team, focused on high delivery standards with a customer centric mindset.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Planning & Scheduling
- Develop, maintain, and manage programme plans and trackers across EV portfolios.
- Track progress against key milestones.
- Ensure dependencies, constraints, and critical paths are clearly understood and visible.
- Support short‑term and long‑term programme planning activities.
Programme Tracking & Reporting
- Maintain accurate trackers, dashboards, and reporting outputs.
- Monitor progress, highlight slippage, and flag risks.
- Support preparation of programme review packs and governance reporting.
- Comfortable handling high volumes of information / requests / questions and be able to keep track of actions.
Stakeholder Coordination
- Work closely with internal teams including Pricing, Design, Legal and Operations.
- Support engagement with external parties (e.g. DNOs, ICPs, manufacturers)
- Support effective communication across programme workstreams
Risk, Dependency & Issue Management
- Identify and log programme risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Track mitigation actions and follow up with responsible owners.
- Support escalation processes where programme risks threaten delivery milestones
Data Accuracy & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure programme data is accurate, up to date, and consistent.
- Support continuous improvement of programme planning tools, trackers and processes
- Capture lessons learned and support standardisation across programmes
Key Skills
Knowledge, Skills & Experience - Essential
- Experience in a project coordination, planning or administrative role.
- Strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- High attention to detail with confidence handling programmes, trackers and reporting information.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience - Desirable
- Experience supporting utilities, civil engineering or infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of power distribution and HV connections.
- Experience working in a multi stakeholder and customer facing role.
- Bachelor’s Degree, MSP, APMP PMP, or Prince 2 accreditation.
- French speaking.
Personal Attributes
- Highly organised and methodical with a proactive approach.
- Comfortable working with detail while understanding the wider project context.
- Confident chasing actions and following up with stakeholders.
- Collaborative team player who supports delivery teams effectively.
- Calm and resilient in a fast-paced project environment.
- Confident dealing with competing demands for time and working to tight deadlines.
- Adaptable to changing circumstances, uncertainty and ambiguous or adverse situations whilst remaining calm and maintaining performance.