M&E Power & Infrastructure Planner

Recruiter: Luke Byrne

Career Grade: TM4

Internal Closing Date: 12th August 2026

Location: Field based role - Glasgow and surronding areas

Why this job matters

Our Power & Infrastructure Planners are experts who utilise their electrical qualifications and knowledge to support BT’s M&E programmes.
You will be the gateway for customer requests and ensure we have the space, power & infrastructure within our exchanges to meet ours and our customer’s needs.

You will be supporting all M&E delivery programmes, completing a range of activities- capacity management, compiling SOR’s (Statement of Requirements), holding site meetings, matrix management of engineering teams and contractors, issuing Job Packs, supporting project delivery, asset registration and finance management.

What you'll be doing

• Prioritise H&S – To have regard for health and safety, his/her job license, and skills as agreed with line manager. Delivers work with full regard of H&S aspects. Carries out on-site risk assessments giving careful consideration to any hazards before starting work and as the work progresses. Inform manager and record near misses/incidents. Is comfortable challenging and asking others to display their ID passes when on BT premises. Complies with all ISO Audit Requirements, including 14001 and 45001.
• Inclusive Environment – Responsible for helping to create an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed. Diversity makes sense for us, for our customers and for our future. Effectively lives by the BT’s values, always leading by example.

Role Accountabilities:
• Execute Work with Autonomy – Execute all required work (allocated and self-identified), considering H&S, despite the challenges and environment. Supporting a team of engineers / planners to prioritises work as required, entering accurate codes and quality notes on appropriate systems (e.g. SIM, SNAP, and other inventory systems), that are meaningful, and which can be used onward by colleagues and customers.
• Planning Expertise – Utilise extensive expertise in planning, surveying, and clerk of works activities, occasionally supervising and leading a small team during operations and activities. In addition to this the individual will demonstrate an extensive understanding of a variety of systems alongside H&S considerations when planning. Skill use will be dependent on patch requirements.
• Contractor Support – Support and challenge contractors to ensure that BT is receiving value for money in all activities.
• Power / Electrical Knowledge – Utilises their extensive power and electrical knowledge to support colleagues and customers with advice, guidance, and assistance as required. Additionally manage A56 for designated locations ensuring faults and repaired and that the site is always safe.
• Performance and Development – Drives own performance ensuring they are effectively contributing to team measures, taking ownership of these measures for given area. Required to ensure that mandatory compliance, regulatory, data and informational requirements are maintained and recorded. Works in partnership with line manager to drive personal upskilling and development to need training needs and aspiration. Additionally completes any training requirements as set out by the business needs in the work area (including upskilling to Power) and effectively coaches and supports team members as required.

Skills and Experience

• Self-Starting: The ability to work autonomously without supervision to proactively achieve the desired outcomes, often using their own initiative to drive the actions required from both themselves and wider team.
• Ownership: Ability to take ownership of and effectively manage tasks, activities and resources
• Team Leadership: Hold the ability to drive and lead small teams during technical activities.
• Coaching: Ability to coach and support individuals in a variety of situations including both technical and commercial.
• Communication: Able to communicate clearly and precisely through a variety of methods in any given circumstance or location.
• Problem Solving: The ability to deal with a variety of issues and effectively implement solutions as required.
• ICT Literacy: Confident user of MS Office suite, especially MS Word, Excel, and Outlook (e-mail).
• Continuous Improvement: Must hold the ability to recognise, implement and use continuous improvement in role.
• Stakeholder Management: Able to partner with and support internal and external customers, managing their needs and expectations.

Qualifications

• Electrical competency City & Guilds 2360 parts 1+2 or equivalent NVQ or equivalent industry qualification
• BTEC Electrical Engineering Level 3/HNC/HND/MOET Level 3/ET Level 3 or equivalent.
• Individuals will be required to hold a Full UK manual Driving Licence.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.