Planning and Implementation Manager

About You
Are you passionate about turning data into real-world impact?
Ready to lead planning excellence and drive change?
 
Do you want to help shape the future for Communities?

If that sounds like you, this is your opportunity!
 
We’re building a newly emerging Environment Programme Delivery Office, and we need your expertise to help project managers deliver transformational projects.

Turn Data into Action
Your skills in scheduling, governance, and resource planning will empower decision-makers, ensuring successful delivery with clear insights and strategic execution. You’ll work hand-in-hand with our Performance and Reporting Manager to bring efficiency and precision to large-scale environmental programmes.  

Lead, Coach, and Collaborate
This isn’t just about planning—it’s about shaping how we work. You’ll be the go-to expert in project planning, guiding teams, training staff, and influencing national stakeholders to improve delivery and create lasting impact.  

What You Bring to the Role
✅ Project Planning Excellence  – Skilled in scheduling, forecasting, and integrated schedule management.  
✅ Governance & Compliance Knowledge – Best practices and alignment with structured frameworks.  
✅ Resource & Capacity Management – Optimising workforce planning and supply chain schedules.  
✅ Stakeholder Engagement & Communication – Confident in guiding teams and coaching project staff.  
✅ Analytical, Organised & Improvement-Focused – Detail-driven, proactive, and solutions-oriented.  

This is your chance to make a real difference.

About The Role
You’ll take charge of developing, maintaining, and refining integrated project schedules across the EPDO programmes. Ensuring timelines align with risk assessments and assurance processes and keeping delivery goals firmly on track, your planning expertise will be the backbone of successful project execution.  

You’ll be the key link between planning and governance, working closely with the Risk and Assurance Manager to ensure projects pass pre-Gate Reviews smoothly. You’ll provide planning assurance, improve project oversight, and transform complex data into clear, actionable insights through tools like Power BI helping the leadership team make informed decisions that keep projects moving forward.  

This role is all about building strong relationships. You’ll run training sessions, lead project support meetings, and collaborate with a range of stakeholders including; DESNZ, NRW and Defra to ensure planning processes align with strategic priorities and deliver real impact. Your ability to engage, guide, and influence will be crucial in creating a high-performing network across the programme.  

You’ll ensure resources are allocated effectively, coordinating integrated planning that keeps schedules aligned with supply chain requirements and contractual obligations. From optimising workforce planning to maintaining accurate scheduling, your ability to balance capacity and demand will be essential to keeping projects on time and on target.  

Planning is never static and you’ll be at the forefront of driving efficiency and innovation. You’ll embed best practices, compliance standards, and improvement strategies into project planning, ensuring every process contributes to faster, smarter, and more effective delivery. Your insights will help shape the future of environmental programme planning, making a lasting impact on coalfield communities.  

We don’t expect candidates to meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!
 
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
 
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
 
Schedule:

Application closing date: 22nd June 2025
Sifting date: 24th June 2025
Interviews: 2nd July 2025
(If you are unavailable on this interview date, please make us aware and we will look at alternative dates)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.

About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits: A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.Unlock exclusive employee discountsEnsure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
 As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria who are disabled or from a minority ethnic community.
We want to recruit you based on your skills and experience, and not the colour of your skin, where you come from, or who you share your life with.  What’s important is that you can carry out your role effectively.  That’s why, when you submit your application to us, we remove all your personal data before the hiring manager reviews your details.  If you are successful and you join us, you can be confident that this is because we trust that you will be successful and can make a difference.  By continuing to improve our diversity, we continue to improve our knowledge and innovation and live our values of being trusted, inclusive and progressive.
If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, but you require an alternative application form or other reasonable adjustments to apply, let us know.  You can get in touch by email at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or give us a call on 01623 637000.