Planning and Scheduling Manager

Job Introduction

We’re looking for an experienced Planning and Scheduling Manager to join our team. As the Planning and Scheduling Manager, you will provide training and coaching to the team in particular hard FM skills and apply hard services knowledge / expertise to ensure that the team are effectively scheduling and proactively managing works to completion within contractual SLAs.

You’ll be a self-motivated, confident, honest and flexible professional with a strong work ethic and highly capable of implementing, evaluating, and improving business processes with exceptional ability to achieve results.

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Role Responsibility

• Develop a team of schedulers (and the processes operated), to increase the hard FM knowledge/ capabilities of the Command Centre - to enhance the service provided
• To build relationships with key Stakeholders on-site and understand client / site requirements and specifications.
• Build a technical knowledge bank, to provide guidance and related FM knowledge for the scheduling team
• To work within the Command Centre management team and provide support to the existing team leaders, understand the CC “helpdesk” environment and telephony system.
• To proactively identify any potential areas of improvement and propose improved ways of working to the Command Center Management team.
• Ensuring that the CC team, deliver to agreed ways of working and follow process
• To responsibly adhere to the health, safety, environmental and quality standards, policies, and procedures.
• To accurately review PPM schedules and discuss any improvements with site leads
• To provide hard FM knowledge / support, including asset data and trend analysis.

The Ideal Candidate

• Hands-on experience of FM on-site
• A Technical skill required in one of the key disciplines (such as M&E)
• Experience of CAFM / CMMS systems
• People management experience (coaching, developing, training)
• Understanding of facilities management and the types of assets found therein e.g. Maximo - especially work planning and scheduling functionalities. Have a good understanding of reactive and planned maintenance works, to enable planning of works within SLAs / KPIs

Package Description

Up to £40,000 depending on experience

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.