Programme Planner

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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