Scheduling Lead

Scheduling Lead

Location: Warwick, Bristol or Warrington

Salary: 49,855 - £60,000

About the role

We’re looking for a talented and driven Scheduling Lead to head up our Planning & Scheduling function, playing a critical role in ensuring the safe, efficient and effective delivery of maintenance and project work across the network.

This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll bring together routine maintenance (OPEX), project activity (CAPEX), and real-time operational demands, ensuring plans are achievable, resources are optimised, and performance targets are met.

You’ll lead a specialist scheduling team, acting as the central coordination point between operations, engineering, and major projects, ensuring everything from long-term planning to emergency response is aligned and deliverable.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and developing a high-performing Planning & Scheduling team
• Overseeing the scheduling of routine maintenance, asset work, project delivery, major programmes, and emergency/reactive fault response and dispatch activities
• Managing and prioritising workloads to ensure performance targets and KPIs are consistently achieved
• Providing oversight of integrated OPEX and CAPEX schedules, ensuring alignment with operational and safety requirements
• Acting as a key interface for Major Projects, ensuring effective integration into regional plans
• Collaborating closely with the System Operator to manage access, resolve conflicts, and optimise delivery
• Monitoring performance, identifying risks, and driving improvements in delivery and efficiency
• Leading continuous improvement across scheduling processes, tools, and reporting
• Building strong relationships across Operations and Delivery teams, Engineering and Asset Management, Major Projects, and external stakeholders
• This is a highly collaborative role with significant visibility and influence across the business.

This is a highly collaborative role with significant visibility and influence across the business.

About you

We’re looking for someone who can combine strong leadership, operational planning expertise, and excellent communication skills to drive performance and bring teams together.

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in planning, scheduling, or operational coordination within utilities, infrastructure, engineering, or similar environments 
• Strong leadership experience, with the ability to motivate, develop and lead teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (a critical success factor)
• Experience managing complex workloads and competing priorities
• Strong analytical capability, including performance reporting and data-driven decision making
• Experience using scheduling or work management systems (e.g. SAP, Maximo, Primavera, MS Project) and tools such as Excel or Power BI 
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional environment, influencing across multiple teams

Desirable

• Experience within the gas or wider energy sector
• Knowledge of asset maintenance, regulatory or compliance frameworks
• Experience supporting or integrating large-scale infrastructure or major projects
• Understanding of long-term planning and portfolio integration

What we can offer

• Annual bonus of up to 6% based on personal and company performance 
• 26 days’ holiday plus statutory holidays - option available to buy extra holiday days 
• Generous double-match pension scheme - for every £1 you put in, we'll add £2 (max company contribution 12%) 
• An optional flexible benefit scheme, including private healthcare, dental insurance, technology plans, travel insurance 
• Death in service 10x your basic salary 
• Financial protection if you're unable to work due to long term illness or injury 
• Excellent family friendly provisions - maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental leave 
• Professional development and career progression 
• Employee assistance programme offering free confidential professional counselling 24 hours per day 
• Financial support to help you cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, relevant to your role 

Inclusive recruitment

At National Gas, we are disability confident and signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant. We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need. 
 
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