Planning Assistant (Infrastructure Maintenance)

We offer excellent benefits, including:

• Generous annual leave (28 days plus statutory days), with the option to buy/sell days.
• Defined benefit pension scheme.
• 75% subsidy on rail and underground season tickets.
• Up to 75% off leisure travel.
• Volunteer leave to make a positive impact.
• Carer's leave to support those who matter.
• Healthcare Scheme, GymPass discounts, Cycle to Work plus more.
• Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

Plus, more...

Join Our Maintenance Planning Team and Help Keep Britain Moving

We're looking for a Planning Assistant - Infrastructure Maintenance to support the effective planning and coordination of maintenance activities across the railway.

Working as part of the Infrastructure Maintenance team, you'll help ensure maintenance work is accurately planned, coordinated and communicated. You'll work closely with planners, delivery teams, engineers and other key stakeholders to support the safe and efficient delivery of maintenance activities across the route.

Whether you're maintaining accurate planning information, supporting workbank development or helping teams coordinate resources and requirements, you'll play an important part in keeping our railway running safely and reliably.

• Support the planning and coordination of infrastructure maintenance activities, helping to ensure work is effectively prepared and scheduled.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of work plans and programmes, ensuring planning information remains accurate and up to date.
• Work closely with maintenance teams, planners, engineers and other stakeholders to understand work requirements and priorities.
• Support the coordination of resources, materials, equipment and other requirements needed to deliver planned maintenance activities.
• Maintain planning records, documentation and systems, ensuring information is accurately captured and communicated.
• Monitor changes to planned work and support the team in updating schedules and planning information where required.
• Assist with planning meetings, providing information and updates to support effective decision-making.
• Help identify potential planning conflicts, risks and issues, escalating these appropriately.
• Support continuous improvements that make maintenance planning more efficient, consistent and effective.

Location: Clapham St Johns 

Salary: Band 6 - £29000 - £31000
 Contract: Full-Time

• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively to deadlines.
• Good communication skills and the confidence to work with a wide range of teams and stakeholders.
• A proactive and collaborative approach to problem-solving.
• Good IT skills with the ability to confidently use systems, spreadsheets and planning information.
• The ability to maintain accurate records and work with detailed information.
• A willingness to learn and develop your understanding of infrastructure maintenance and railway planning.

We believe diversity drives innovation. Whoever you are, however you identify, wherever you're from-if you've got the skills and the spark, we want you on our team. No suits required. Just bring your authentic self.

As part of the application process, you'll be asked to complete your three-year employment history and upload your CV. 

Network Rail is a Disability Confident Leader and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles. You can visit Evenbreak's Career Hive for advice on accessibility support if you're unsure of the options available. Should you require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please add a note to your application.

All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. Click here for more information.

Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do. Safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should demonstrate your personal dedication to safety on your application.

All prospective candidates will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.