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Installation & Planning Coordinator | £32k | 26 days A/L

Office Angels·Canterbury·Posted 5 days ago
💰 £30-32k/year
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We're really proud to be recruiting exclusively for this exciting position as an Installation & Scheduling Coordinator. Working for an extremely successful company, on the outskirts of Canterbury, you'll join a business that has grown from 35 staff to 100!


In this role, you'll be responsible for the end-to-end coordination and execution of service delivery activities. Including for example, installation delivery, engineer planning and resourcing, scheduling of national deployments, and maintenance response coordination. Operating within a highly reactive, fast paced environment where customer experience and service continuity are critical. This position ensures that all delivery and support activities meet defined Installation SLAs, while maintaining clear communication, expectation management, and operational control across internal teams, field engineers, and customers.


Your next employer offers an enviable company culture, and you'll receive leading benefits:


  • 25 days annual leave plus Bank holidays
  • Birthdays Off
  • 6 Month Reviews
  • Home Broadband
  • Regular Office Food Events
  • Lunch & Learns with Leadership Team
  • Regular Team Socials
  • Concessions (Discounted UK Holidays, Sky TV Packages etc)
  • Perkbox (Including over 9,000 perks, discounts and benefits)
  • Virtual GP Appointments - Dr Care Anywhere
  • Vitality Private Medical Insurance


Please find further details below:


Job Title: Installation & Planning Coordinator


Location: Near Canterbury, Kent. Your own transport is essential due to the location of this company. This position is 100% office based.


Salary: £30,000 - £32,000


Duration: 12 month FTC


Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am - 5:30pm


As the Installation & Planning Coordinator your responsibilities would be to:


  • Service Delivery & Installation Management
    • Own and manage the delivery of: New customer installations, rollout activities, moves, adds, and changes
    • Ensure all installations are delivered in line with defined SLAs, quality standards, and customer expectations
    • Maintain visibility of all active jobs, ensuring progress, completion, and closure
  • Engineer Planning & Resource Management
    • Plan and coordinate national field engineering resources, including Internal engineers and third-party contractors
    • Optimise engineer utilisation across: Installations, Fault response, Maintenance and upgrade works
    • Balance planned work vs reactive demand, ensuring priority alignment with SLAs and customer impact
  • Scheduling & Coordination
    • For Installations, Survey visits, Maintenance, and fault response
    • Manage scheduling tools, workflows, and booking processes
    • Ensure efficient routing and geographic clustering of jobs to maximise productivity
    • Dynamically adjust schedules in response to incidents, delays, or changing priorities
  • Incident & Maintenance Response
    • Oversee coordination of faults, outages, and degraded service incidents
    • Ensure rapid mobilisation of engineering resource aligned to Incident severity & SLA commitments
    • Act as an escalation point for major service-impacting issues
    • Maintain communication with operators during incidents, ensuring transparency and confidence
  • Supplier & Contractor Coordination
    • Manage performance of third-party engineering partners and contractors
    • Ensure adherence to: SLAs, quality standards, Health & Safety requirements, escalate and address under performance where required


You'll be the ideal candidate if you have the following skills and experience:


  • Proven experience in a Service Delivery, Field Operations, or Scheduling Management role
  • Strong experience managing Field engineering teams and high-volume installation and fault workflows
  • Demonstrable experience operating in a reactive, SLA-driven environment
  • Strong organisational and coordination skills across multiple concurrent activities
  • Excellent stakeholder and customer communication capability


Next steps:


If you have the above skills, you're someone who reacts effectively to priorities, aligns suppliers and stakeholders, and has clear communication skills, apply today!


Alternatively, if you know someone who may be suitable for this role please share the details. If you successfully refer a friend for the above role, you will receive a £100* voucher of your choice! Terms apply*


Please note if your skills match the requirements for the job then you will receive an e-mail from us (remember to check your junk mail). If you do please call us on ASAP or within 24 hours to discuss the position in further detail with Pippy (Senior Candidate Consultant) or Nicola (Permanent Consultant).


We look forward to your application.

Office Angels is an employment agency and business. We are an equal-opportunities employer who puts expertise, energy and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities and more. By showcasing talents, skills and unique experiences in an inclusive environment, we help individuals thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.


Office Angels acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Office Angels UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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Key skills

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Must-have skills
SLA managementField engineer schedulingInstallation coordinationResource planningScheduling tools and workflow managementThird-party contractor coordination
Nice-to-have
Geographic job routing optimisationIncident and fault response coordinationNational deployment planning
Soft skills
CommunicationExpectation managementPrioritisationAdaptabilityOperational controlCustomer focus
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⭐ Lead your CV with a Personal Statement that explicitly names 'Installation & Scheduling Coordinator' and 'SLA management', as these are the core competencies the advert emphasises throughout.

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📊 Quantify your scheduling impact: e.g. 'Coordinated 40+ field engineers across 12 regions, achieving 97% SLA compliance over 6 months' to demonstrate national-scale delivery.

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🌐 Highlight experience managing both internal engineers and third-party contractors, as the advert specifically calls out this dual-resource responsibility under Engineer Planning.

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🎯 Demonstrate reactive scheduling capability by citing a specific incident response example — e.g. 'Dynamically rescheduled 15 engineer visits within 2 hours following a network outage, maintaining zero SLA breaches.'

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🤝 Include any scheduling or field service management tools you have used (e.g. Salesforce Field Service, ServiceNow, or similar), as the advert references 'scheduling tools and workflows' as a key responsibility.

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  • Managed end-to-end scheduling for 35 field engineers across 8 UK regions, maintaining 96% SLA compliance across 200+ monthly installation and fault-response jobs.
  • Reduced engineer travel time by 22% through geographic clustering and route optimisation, saving approximately 15 hours of field time per week across a 12-person contractor pool.
  • Coordinated a national rollout of 80 customer installations over 10 weeks, dynamically adjusting schedules in response to 14 site-access incidents with zero SLA breaches recorded.

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Dear Hiring Manager,

Coordinating national field engineering resources while maintaining SLA compliance across installations, fault response, and maintenance is exactly the challenge I have been building my career towards — which is why the Installation & Planning Coordinator role at your Canterbury-based business immediately stood out. The combination of engineer utilisation optimisation and reactive scheduling management aligns directly with my professional background.

My background in service delivery coordination includes managing scheduling workflows for multi-region field teams, balancing planned installation work against reactive demand, and liaising with both internal engineers and third-party contractors to ensure on-time delivery. I have consistently maintained SLA targets in high-volume, time-sensitive environments and understand the importance of clear communication with customers when priorities shift.

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10 questions generated from this advert.

Technical

  • Walk us through how you would plan and optimise the routing of field engineers across multiple national locations in a single day.
  • What scheduling tools or software have you used to manage engineer deployments, and how did you ensure data accuracy?
  • How do you balance planned installation work against reactive fault-response demand when both compete for the same engineering resource?
  • Describe your approach to maintaining SLA compliance when an incident causes multiple simultaneous schedule disruptions.
  • How would you track and report on the progress, completion, and closure of active installation jobs across a national estate?

Behavioural

  • Tell me about a time you had to dynamically reprioritise a schedule due to an unexpected incident or delay — what was the outcome?
  • Describe a situation where you managed a difficult customer expectation during a delayed installation. How did you handle communication?
  • Give an example of when you identified an inefficiency in a scheduling or coordination process and what you did to improve it.
  • Tell me about a time you coordinated a large-scale rollout involving multiple teams or contractors. What challenges did you face?
  • Describe a time when you had to escalate a resource or SLA issue. How did you decide when to escalate and what happened?
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1Question

Tell me about a time you had to dynamically reprioritise a schedule due to an unexpected incident or delay — what was the outcome?

Situation: A critical network outage at a retail client site meant three planned installations had to be halted mid-morning, affecting five field engineers already en route. Task: I needed to redeploy those engineers to other priority jobs within the same geographic cluster to avoid wasted travel time and SLA breaches on other accounts. Action: I pulled up the scheduling system, identified four fault-response jobs within a 20-mile radius that had been queued for the afternoon, and contacted the engineers directly to redirect them within 35 minutes. I also called the affected retail client to reset expectations and rebook within 48 hours. Result: All five engineers remained productive, no SLA was breached that day, and the retail client installation was completed two days later with a satisfaction score of 9 out of 10.
2Question

Describe a situation where you managed a difficult customer expectation during a delayed installation. How did you handle communication?

Situation: A new business customer was expecting a full-site installation to be completed on a Monday, but a parts delay from a third-party supplier pushed the engineer visit back by two days. Task: I had to inform the customer promptly, manage their frustration, and provide a credible revised timeline without overpromising. Action: I called the customer within 30 minutes of confirming the delay, explained the root cause clearly, and offered a Wednesday slot with a dedicated senior engineer. I also sent a written confirmation the same day and set a reminder to proactively update them Tuesday afternoon. Result: The installation completed on Wednesday with no further issues. The customer acknowledged the communication in their post-installation survey, rating the coordination process 8 out of 10 despite the original delay.

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