Maintenance Planner

Do you want to work for one of the UK's leading Water Companies? Here at United Utilities, we have fantastic opportunities for qualified Maintenance Planners based out of our Northwich Wastewater Treatment Works and operating across our Cheshire area. You'll be working 37 hours across Monday to Friday and will receive an excellent salary and benefits package which includes an annual bonus, our award winning Pension Scheme, private healthcare with access to virtual GP appointments and referrals, 26 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (increasing to 30 plus Bank holidays with service), Share buy as well as loads of flexible benefits you'll want to hear more about.

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 mínimal 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 non-technical 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.
- Computer literate proficiency.
- A Full UK Driving Licence.

**Additional Information**:** We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included, regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation or social background.**
**Closing Date**:27/02/24