Maintenance Planner

United Utilities

The Role

Overview

Plan and schedule maintenance activities for water treatment assets.

Key Responsibilities

  • job planning
  • scheduling liaison
  • asset availability
  • spare management
  • work prioritisation
  • process improvement

Tasks

-Create, maintain, and improve a comprehensive library of maintenance job plans, adapting them to increase asset reliability in collaboration with operations and engineering teams. -Liaise daily with scheduling colleagues and participate in regular planning meetings to develop executable maintenance plans ranging from one week to one year. -Request asset availability for proactive maintenance, maximise multi-activity opportunities, and report on missed maintenance to support ongoing improvement. -Manage spares, materials, and services for maintenance activities, ensuring correct specifications and building bills of materials for critical and repeat-failure assets. -Review newly raised corrective work to ensure appropriate prioritisation and proactively plan asset downtime to minimise disruption to treatment processes. -Drive continuous improvement within the planning and scheduling team, aligning processes with the overall work management strategy.

Requirements

  • sap
  • mars
  • ms office
  • maintenance
  • planning
  • safety

What You Bring

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

Benefits

-A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme -Salary Finance -Mental health first aiders -MORE Choices flexible benefits -Wealth at Work courses -EVolve Car Scheme -MyGymDiscounts - gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions -Employee Assistance Plan -Up to 7.5% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements -Deals and discounts -Enhanced parental leave schemes -A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover -A generous annual leave package of 26 days, which increases to 30 days after four years of service (increases one day per year), in addition to 8 bank holidays

The Company

About United Utilities

-It operates across North West England, supplying drinking water and treating sewage. -The company manages vast infrastructure, including thousands of kilometers of pipelines and nearly 600 treatment works. -Typical projects include reservoir management, leak detection, and wastewater upgrades. -Specializing in water and wastewater services, infrastructure upkeep, and renewable energy generation.

Sector Specialisms

Water

Energy

Infrastructure

Utilities

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Residential

Commercial

Buildings

Heavy Civil

Marine

Transport

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Nuclear

Government