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JOB DESCRIPTION
Role:Planning Coordinator
Location:Ratho, Edinburgh
Department:Operations
Reporting to:Planning Supervisor - Drone Operations
Salary:£32,000
Join Our Team & Enjoy the Amazing Perks!
At Cyberhawk, we believe work should be rewardingboth professionally and personally! Thats why we offer incredible benefits to keep you motivated, happy, and thriving.
We are a flexible Company withhybrid workingavailable (role dependant) and we also operate apet friendly officewhere you can bring your furry best friend to work.
We havequarterly team building events,where all our teams come together to have somefun!
Keen to grow and develop? Each of our employees have full access toLinkedIn Learning, which is a platform providing video courses taught by industry experts in Business, Creative, Technology and Certifications.
Enjoy annualbonus paymentsfor your hard work (discretionary), anemployee referral schemeto earn extra cash for bringing great talent on board (up to £1,500!) and ourMonthly Adventure Draw, where you could win£1,000to fund your next big thrill!
Weve got your health and wellbeing covered toowithlife insurance, a dedicatedEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)anddiscounted BUPA private health insurancefor peace of mind. You'll also be entitled to30 days annual leaveto spend as you wish!
Love to stay active? Take advantage of ourfree on-site gymand ourCycle to Work schemeto keep you moving!
Join us and experience a workplace where rewards, wellness, and adventure come together. Ready to make your next career move? Lets go!
Company Background:
Cyberhawk combines engineering expertise, world-class drone operations, and purpose-built software to deliver end-to-end solutions that support infrastructure asset management programs.
Since our inception in 2008, we have completed more than 35 world firsts, operating worldwide in more than 40 countries. As a world-leader, we continue to lead the way in close visual inspections of critical assets including electrical grids, power generation sites, oil and gas structures and capital-intensive industrial construction projects while always putting safety at the forefront of our operational excellence.
Our intuitive, cloud-based visualisation software platform, iHawk, provides a single source of truth for assets at any scale, enabling our customers to make better decisions about their assets, and faster. We are experts at finding defects in critical energy infrastructure which can impact the environment and the communities our customers serve.
At Cyberhawk, our people are the secret to our success. We thrive because of our teams incredible talent and outstanding service. We are now looking to welcome a new Planning Coordinator to join our high-performing team.
Company Values
At Cyberhawk, we work as one team, growing together, seeking out new challenges, sharing our knowledge and skills to help us all succeed, feel valued and enjoy work! Our way of working is represented by our 5 core values, along with our overarching value of Nae Drama:
- One Team
- Open and Humble
- Hungry to Grow
- Show up and Have Fun
- Own it And Solve It
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Planning Supervisor, you will be responsible for planning and allocating resources to enable field teams to carry out drone surveys of critical energy infrastructure for one of our US-based customers. In this role, you will work in partnership with key stakeholders, project managers, customers, contractors, and field teams to shape, create, maintain, and deliver successful operational plans and solutions, while ensuring alignment with overall Cyberhawk culture, goals, and strategy. By creating effective plans, you will help our customer to quickly identify defects in their critical energy infrastructure, contributing to mitigating the risk of wildfires, and thus helping to keep communities and ecosystems safe.
This role will take responsibility for
- planning and co-ordinating day to day operations of a dedicated project or project region,
- support other planners from time to time,
- development of work-packs, and
- ensure the necessary equipment is available for project execution.
A key part of this role is the ability to work to very tight deadlines and having an exceptional attention to detail. This role will require you to be able to quickly adapt to changing circumstances and clearly communicate progress to key stakeholders.
There is a requirement for weekend working in line with business/customer demands, currently operating every second Saturday.
Key Accountabilities
The Planning Coordinator role will be responsible for:
Planning and co-ordination:
- Developing strategies and establish a course of action to accomplish project(s) objectives
- Developing weekly and daily project schedules, work plans, resources requirements and projections
- Conducting and communicating risk assessments and preparing and reviewing contingency plans for problems that might occur
- Overseeing and guiding others towards project goals
- Continuously prioritising daily operations to accommodate changes in overall project, resource availability and environmental factors
Safety
- Promote safety culture through well thought out project plans
- Maintain general oversight of operations and planning with safety standards and environmental impact as the highest priorities
- Identify safety and wellbeing improvements and implement agreed changes to improve operating and safety procedures
- Contribute to safety improvement plans to mitigate project identified risks
Leadership & People
- Develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships
Reporting, Systems and processes:
- Analyse operations data to produce daily plan, identifying inaccuracies and reconciliations
- Deliver daily Operations reports to support timely activity reports and invoicing.
- Review field team reports to identify deviations from plan and implement work-arounds and solutions
- Ensure field data is accurate to support efficient and safe day-to-day operations
- Identify improvements to systems and processes to improve operational efficiency
- Able to communicate clearly with field teams to achieve continuous improvement of identified focus areas.
Qualifications, Experience, Competencies
Qualifications
- Admin/Project Management qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Skills
- Strong time management
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent organisational skills
- Experience of working in a multi-site, multi-disciplined and/or remote workforce
- Able to communicate in a clear concise manner
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel/ Database skills
Knowledge of drones/aviation industry/FAA regulations/utility networks (desirable)
- Proficient in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint
- Experience conducting complex field related Risk Assessments & Method Statements (RAMS) (desirable)
- Understanding or interest in GIS systems (desirable)
- Knowledge of drones and/or utility networks (desirable)
Other
- Work additional hours including occasional weekend work to accommodate key project deliverables when required
