Overview
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.
Responsibilities
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
Qualifications
* 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.
* 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.
Additional 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.
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