Location
Hampton Coal Wharf - TW12 2ES or Reading - Kemble Court - RG2 6AD

Hours
36 Hours per week (Monday to Friday)

Salary
£47,000 to £58,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience

About the Role
Power Resilience is critical to Thames Water's ability to provide safe, reliable services to millions of customers. We are expanding our Power Resilience capability to enhance how power is planned, maintained and improved across our operations. We are looking for talented individuals to join this growing team and help build a coordinated, data-led approach to managing Power Resilience across Thames Water.

As Works Coordination Manager, you will lead the planning and coordination of power-related activities across Thames Water, ensuring critical maintenance, resilience improvements and outage activities are delivered efficiently to meet customer service levels and regulatory requirements. You will be responsible for optimising Power Resilience delivery across operational teams, mitigating potential operational conflicts and minimising disruption to capital delivery programmes.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a critical area of UK infrastructure and make a meaningful difference to customer outcomes and environmental protection. As the team grows, you will help shape future ways of working and bring your expertise to create lasting impact across Thames Water.

Key responsibilities:
- Provide expert leadership to the planning team, integrating Power Resilience engineering, analytics and operational delivery plans to support the Power Strategy.
- Oversee coordination and planning of power-related field activities, ensuring alignment with SLAs, regulatory requirements and business priorities.
- Collaborate closely with Power Resilience colleagues to ensure plans remain aligned across engineering, maintenance, operations and delivery teams.
- Liaise with internal and external teams to coordinate planned and reactive works, optimise resource allocation and minimise service disruption.
- Develop, monitor and report on planning KPIs, budgets and compliance with internal policies and external standards, supporting continuous improvement in planning and delivery.

Experience
- Proven experience in planning/coordination within utilities, engineering or a similar regulated environment.
- Demonstrated team leadership and capability-building experience.
- Experience collaborating across engineering, operations and contractor teams.
- Experience applying digital tools and analytics to enhance planning (desirable).

About you
- Expert knowledge of planning and coordination principles, tools and systems (e.g., MS Project, SAP, or similar).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Commercial awareness and ability to evaluate information from multiple sources.
- Excellent IT literacy, including planning and reporting software.

Qualifications
- Further planning, coordination, technical or engineering qualifications (desirable).