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About the Role

As Planning Manager for Woolwich Ferry, you will shape the future performance, resilience, and reliability of this essential service. You will work alongside operational, engineering, and leadership teams to ensure assets, people, and processes are planned effectively to keep London moving.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning activities for preventative maintenance to ensure Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) meets or exceeds the business performance target of 100% completion each period.
• Act as the single point of responsibility for ensuring all Woolwich Ferry PPM works in Maximo are planned and communicated to maintenance teams and crews.
• Provide periodic reports on completed/outstanding maintenance works, highlighting variances and providing recommendations.
• Own and manage works within Maximo.
• Ensure materials, resource, and asset condition are recorded in Maximo.
• Ensure contractors' and suppliers' PPM tasks are visible on Maximo and works are monitored to completion.
• Pro-actively manage risks, issues, and concerns.
• Act as the single point of contact for all stakeholder relationships for Maximo, internally and externally.
• Lead closure/service downtime planning for planned maintenance and capital project works to maximise use of downtime and reduce disruption for ferry service users.
• Develop and manage forward look plans for planned maintenance and capital works that involve service disruption.
• Actively support maintenance and capital teams in identifying and maximising opportunity works.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders, sharing best practice and influencing decisions.
• Manage rostering for operational and maintenance staff to support a reliable service and effective and efficient maintenance.
• Develop a forward look tool to track and oversee operational and maintenance related rosters and potential gaps.
• Ensure forward look closures are communicated to operational staff to ensure all areas of operational needs and maintenance delivery are met.

Requirements

• Proven experience of successfully influencing teams to deliver planned maintenance.
• Experience in delivery of change involving processes, data, and systems.
• Experience using Asset Management Systems to plan and report on maintenance activities.
• Experience in planning and scheduling work practices, preferably in an operational engineering environment.
• Experience developing forward plans for renewal and/or maintenance works.
• Experience in roster planning and management.
• Experience supporting safety and/or service critical operations.

Skills

• Effective oral and written communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to influence senior managers, stakeholders, and leaders across Woolwich Ferry and TfL.
• Ability to analyze complex quantitative and qualitative data, draw conclusions, and produce solutions.
• Ability to use a variety of management tools and techniques to manage change, motivate individuals and teams, and inspire high performance.
• Competence in using planning/scheduling tools.

Location

• Woolwich Ferry

Work Type

• Hybrid working (50% office, 50% home over a 4-week period)

Education Level

• Degree or HNC in engineering or asset management

Salary/Compensations

• Circa £63,000

Benefits

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

About the Company

• Transport for London (TfL) offers a rich heritage, a commercial outlook, an iconic brand, and a unique public service, making it a great place to develop your career.
• Woolwich Ferry is one of London's most distinctive transport operations, providing a vital river crossing and supporting local communities for over a century.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve.
• A diverse workforce enables us to deliver better services and outcomes.
• Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible.
• As a Disability Confident Leader, we actively encourage applications from disabled people.
• As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we aim to offer an assessment or interview to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum essential criteria for skills, knowledge and experience has been met.
• Selection methods may vary depending on the nature and scale of the campaign and will be applied fairly, consistently, and proportionately in line with our Disability Confident commitments.