Technical Planner

**_Job Title: Technical Planner_**
**_Location: Whitelee Windfarm_**
**_Salary: £37,600 - £47,000 + Up to 10% Bonus + Single Health Cover_**
**_Closing Date: Friday 11th August_**

**_Help us create a better future, quicker_**
Your role as Technical Planner will be responsible for managing and coordinating all works associated with the electrical infrastructure across the portfolio. This will include strategic long-term planning of preventative and corrective maintenance, liaising with the control room and the areas to ensure work is planned efficiently and effectively. Also included will be day to day scheduling of resources ensuring any fault activity is prioritised and coordinated, prioritising sites with the greatest impact on KPI’s.

**_What you’ll be doing_**
- Chairing and Administering weekly, monthly and quarterly planning meetings with each of the areas, the control room and subsequent service and maintenance contractors..
- Drive KPI’s associated with the delivery of preventative and corrective maintenance and produce performance reports for the leadership team.
- Provide technical assessment of infrastructure faults and drive solutions to reduce the overall volume, integrating the solutions into existing outages to ensure minimum outage requirements
- Report and trend on electrical service and maintenance activities, reviewing areas of weakness and making suggestions to improve
- You’ll support with team budget management, creating purchase orders for materials associated with preventative and corrective maintenance.
- Ensure correct and accurate data submissions are received and processed within corporate systems to accurate track asset performance and issues.

**_What you’ll bring_**
- Experience within a renewables or electrical networks environment
- Educated to HND level or have equivalent experience in planning service and maintenance activities.
- Ability to manage competing priorities using sound engineering and financial judgement to determine optimal solutions
- Excellent planning, organising and coordinating skills.
- Ability to chair meeting with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing working environment and demonstrate a positive approach to change.
- High degree of self motivation with a flexible approach to work.
- Ability to work autonomously with mínimal supervision.
- Experience of contractor management desirable.
- Full UK driving licence with the capability to travel throughout the UK.

**_What’s in it for you_**
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
- Payroll giving and charity matched funding
- Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
- Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
- Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

**_Why ScottishPower_**
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

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