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Networks Planning Professional

Job Req ID:  52393
Posting Date:  5 Nov 2025
Function:  Engineering
Unit:  Networks
Location: 

Martlesham Heath Business Park, Ipswich, United Kingdom

Salary:  Competitive + great benefits

Working Style: Hybrid- 3 days a week from office, 2 days from anywhere

Why this job matters

We are looking for 2* Network Planning Professionals to join BT's Metwork Planning team in Fixed Networks. As a valued member, you’ll be empowered to deliver capacity plans for the Converged Core Platform. This responsibility includes creating and planning appropriate network solutions and proactively identifying and implementing process or automation improvements.

 

You’ll be empowered to drive the Evolution of Network Planning across the CC Platform. This responsibility includes improving and aligning network planning processes and implementing process or automation improvements in Planning and E2E in Plan and Build.

 

This is an exciting role that will give you the opportunity to work with teams across BT and with our vendors/partners to improve how we Plan and deliver our network evolution and growth objectives.

What you’ll be doing

  • Seeks continuous improvement and efficiency opportunities to automate, centralise, standardise, and simplify processes, owning the delivery of improvement projects and initiatives, and owning planning process.
  • Operate within an agile development environment.
  • Uses technical expertise to propose planning processes, including the development and proof of concept, and process validation, utilising appropriate planning policy rules.
  • Full contribution to development of guidelines and policies to manage network planning.
  • Creating and planning Network Solutions, utilising appropriate Planning Rules
  • Provides sound technical expertise to deliver timely response to queries, identifying and mitigating operational risks as appropriate.
  • Delivers high-impact operational activities, monitoring performance and ensuring feedback is inputted to the management process.
  • Develops effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to explore opportunities for partnership, acting as the point of escalation for issue resolution.

What you'll bring

The key purpose of this role is to be the technical interface into the Converged Core Platform.

 

Mandatory

  • Experience in communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
  • Experience with technical process improvement.
  • Data driven decision making and communication: drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate and communicating this to business audiences
  • Strong interpersonal and communicattion skills and leadership potential
  • Solve complex problems at scale
  • Agile approach to solving problems
  • Adaptability in various work scenarios

 

Nice to have but not essential

  • Able to understand Converge Core platform/product architecture and service flow, as well as how our customers consume these products.
  • Utilising multiple planning tools and techniques the role holder needs to create capacity plans, provide provision activity across the Converged Core Platform and pro-actively identify service improvements, deliver problem management improvements and ultimately improve customer experience with improved MTTP.
  • Product Knowledge: understand the products and services that BT provide and how our customers utilise them.
  • Tenacious Problem Solver: a desire to look across platforms and teams to ensure problems are resolved and prevent re-occurrence.
  • Technical Skills:
    1. Good knowledge and understanding of Nokia Service Router (SR). Highly experienced in call tracing and fault diagnostics.
    2. Good knowledge of BT Converged Core Platform, service
    3. Experience of Ethernet Services
    4. Experience of IP & Data network planning or delivery
    5. Experience of BT’s Ethernet Services including Harmonised Ethernet and Wholesale Mobile Connect
    6. BT’s 21st Century Network, Converged Core and IP Platforms
    7. Orchestration and Automation

What's in it for you

  • 10% on target bonus
  • BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
  • Life Assurance Cover
  • Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
  • From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
  • Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
  • 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
  • 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
  • 2 weeks carer’s leave
  • World-class training and development opportunities
  • Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled.  As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business. 
 
Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband.  Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other. 
 
While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come.  This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.  
 
Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented.  BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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