Network Management Lead - Planning

Your mission

A key focus of the role will be the effective management of the team and prioritisation of individual planning tasks to ensure customer requests progress within agreed delivery timescales. 
The role will ensure planning outputs are delivered to the required quality, cost and timescale requirements. 
The team is responsible for reviewing proposed and existing FTTP build designs and validating that these remain technically, commercially and operationally viable with a strong focus on HSEQ compliance. This includes coordinating updated field surveys through contract partners, reviewing survey outputs, assessing build costs and feasibility, considering HSEQ and utility constraints and establishing land ownership and wayleave requirements. 

• Identifyrequirements for wayleaves, permissions or specialist land access support and refer these to the appropriate Wayleave Officer where ownership or access cannot be resolved through the normal planning process. 
• Review and authorise design changes whereappropriate, ensuring impacts are assessed,documentedand communicated. 
• Manage individual customer-driven planning tasks against agreed SLAs, ensuring each activity has clear ownership, status, nextactionandrequiredcompletion date. 
• Monitor planning milestones, ageing tasks, risks,dependenciesand constraints, escalating i