Affinity Water has a exciting opportunity to join our Planning Team within Customer Delivery asa Regional Planning Manager.

The Role:

At Affinity Water, we don’t aim to meet industry standards, we aim to be industry leading! We are looking for a Regional Planning Manager to sit within our Customer Delivery directorate who is focused on driving efficiency, problem solving, continuous improvement and developing themselves and the team – all whilst living our company values.

The Regional Planning Manager will lead a planning team responsible for the scheduling of field resource activity on a regional water network system whilst balancing and achieving KPI's and objectives aligned to our company goals.

What you'll be doing:

• Create and promote a Health, Safety and Environmental culture in all teams.

• Drive engagement, proactive thinking and solution-driven approaches.

• Ownership for the deployment of field-based resources against planned and reactive scheduling, including re-deploying for optimum efficiency.

• Promote and develop the relationship with key internal and external stakeholders.

• Create a performance management framework to help understand performance opportunities and provide clear quantifiable objectives for the team

What you'll need:

• Experience of resource planning and demand forecasting, ideally within a field operations or water industry environment.
• An approachable leader with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Able to make critical decisions to identify solutions to customer disruption and other operational events.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience of dealing with complex data sets.
• Outstanding stakeholder engagement skills in complex multi stakeholder environments.
• Advanced knowledge of Works Management applications. (Maximo, FLS)

Advert Closing Date: 20/8/25

Benefits:

• Salary: £45,000 - £47,000 (dependant on skills and experience)
• Hours of work: 08:00am - 16:30pm (hours can be flexible, to be discussed)
• Hybrid working opportunities.
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26-30rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.
• Disability confident: if you need to apply in a different format, please contact us

Disability Confident Employer

Disability Confident is a voluntary government scheme which Affinity Water has signed up to. It means we are committed to employing, fairly assessing, and supporting our disabled employees through reasonable adjustments and an inclusive culture.

Offer an interview scheme

As a Disability Confident employer, we commit to offering interviews to disabled candidates who evidence that they meet the essential criteria for the role and who opt in on the application form. To see all the essential criteria please contact the Talent Acquisition lead to request the full job description.

Please note that in some situations where we have a very high volume of applications, it may not be practical to offer interviews to everyone, in which case we commit to take through a fair and proportionate number, offering interviews to those disabled candidates who best meet the criteria.

What is a disability?

A disability is a long-term physical or mental health condition that has a substantial impact on someone’s day-to-day activities.

What if I need adjustments during the recruitment process?

Please contact the Talent Acquisition lead mentioned on the job advert if you need any adjustments during the process.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.