Maintenance Planner

Salary - £46,869

Work Type - Onsite

Job Location - Birkenhead Wastewater Treatment Works, Morpeth Dock, Shore Road, Birkenhead, CH41 1AW

Role Type - Permanent

Employment Type - Full Time

Working Hours - 37.0 Hours per Week

United Utilities’ (UU) purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West of England. We are committed to providing our services in a way that respects the environment, supports the economy, and benefits society.

We value diversity, inclusion and innovation in our workplace, and we foster a culture where our people can grow, excel, and be themselves.

We uphold our ethics, values and business model to fulfil our mission and, by setting clear goals and objectives, we create sustainable long-term value for our colleagues, customers and communities. Whether you work with a team that shares your vision or join a network of peers with similar interests, you will find a welcoming and supportive organisation to be part of.

We’ve got a lot to offer. You’ll be part of a thriving FTSE 100 company and will enjoy a range of core benefits that reflect your value and value contribution.

Job Purpose

We have excellent opportunities for you to be part of our Maintenance Excellence programme as a Maintenance Planner within our Planning and Scheduling Team.

You will be responsible for the planning and allocation of maintenance activities across a number of UU sites in a defined area. You'll be working with the maintenance teams to deliver safe and cost effective asset reliability, playing a key part in the move from reactive to proactive maintenance. Liaising with the maintenance and operational teams you will develop maintenance job plans that are accurate and ready for work scheduling and execution. This will include; people, skillsets requirements, estimated job duration, materials or parts requirements, special tools/ equipment, developing work instructions which include essential safety requirements

Job Accountabilities

You will be responsible for ensuring safety is at the forefront of planning activity and hazards are identified upfront for all planned maintenance activity, developing and issuing the short, medium and long term maintenance plan for assets within a designated area. You will also be responsible for:

• Quantifying and requesting spares, materials and services maintenance activities, adding materials to work orders as required. Liaise with maintenance teams, scheduling and supply chain to confirm correct specifications and build bills of materials for critical and repeat fail assets.
• Reviewing all new corrective work raised for planning to ensure appropriate priority allocation
• Proactively planning asset downtime to have minimal disruption to treatment plans and processes
• Creating, maintaining and improving the library of maintenance job plans
• Working with operations, maintenance teams and ADT engineers to continuously adapt maintenance plans where necessary in order to increase asset reliability
• Driving continuous improvement within the planning and scheduling team to improve the maintenance planning processes aligned with the overall work management strategy
• Day to day liaison with scheduling colleagues to support the development of executable schedules
• Participating in regular planning meetings that produce agreed maintenance plans (1 week - 1year)
• Requesting asset availability/shutdowns required to deliver proactive maintenance, maximising opportunities for multiple activity completion in a planned manner.
• Report on failed maintenance opportunities and use findings to drive continuous improvement
  
  

Knowledge And Skills

To be considered for this role you will need to be qualified to either HNC or NVQ level 3 (or equivalent) in a Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation engineering discipline and have significant experience gained through either a time served apprenticeship or hands-on experience, which is essential to meet the needs of the business in relevant related fields. You'll have a detailed engineering background along with initiative and attention to detail together with experience of maintenance across a water or other similar industry. You will also have:

• In depth maintenance knowledge and skill to accurately estimate labour hours, material requirements and skills needed to complete a job
• In-depth knowledge of plant operations and equipment and Health and Safety processes
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• A good understanding of SAP, MARS way of working, work orders and maintenance planning principles.
• Understanding of root cause analysis and failure analysis
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team across different stakeholders (technical and nontechnical colleagues) and on own initiative
• Excellent planning skills and able to work logically and efficiently, maximising available resource/asset availability
• Ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Awareness of industry Safety Standards and work authorisation procedures
• A Full UK Driving Licence
  
  

We rely on every employee to ensure our customers receive the best possible service, day in, day out. In return, we ensure that you will be well rewarded for your efforts, from an excellent salary through to development opportunities that will really kick start a thriving career here at UU.