Maintenance Specialist

Overview

Lead maintenance planning and execution for water treatment assets in a regional area.

Key Responsibilities

• standards
• data sharing
• asset performance
• maintenance planning
• root cause
• backlog management

Tasks

-Promote consistent standards across teams, ensure safe working practices, and build strong relationships to deliver a reliable and inclusive maintenance service. -Share data and insights at weekly field hub meetings to inform teams of asset performance, risks, and opportunities for improvement. -Partner with Technical Coordinators to develop annual maintenance plans that support strong business performance. -Support root cause analysis and help prioritise maintenance tasks to reduce reactive work and improve long-term asset health. -Lead effective maintenance planning and backlog management to reduce asset downtime, working visibly and collaboratively with Field Service Engineers to resolve complex issues.

Requirements

• communication
• maintenance planning
• rcm
• fmea
• asset management
• customer service

What You Bring

-Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams, influence stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement. -Strong experience in planning and delivering maintenance activities, with a focus on both corrective and preventative work. -Knowledge of Reliability Centred Maintenance and FMEA processes, with experience in translating these into effective maintenance plans. -Solid understanding of work order lifecycles, asset management principles, and the financial impact of maintenance activities. -Excellent planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage personal workload and support wider teams in achieving maintenance KPIs. -Proven ability to manage complex operations, delivering high standards of customer service, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

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Benefits

-Enhanced parental leave schemes -MyGymDiscounts - gym and wellness benefit that offers up to 25% off on gym memberships and digital fitness subscriptions -Up to 10.5% performance-related bonus scheme, as well as recognition awards for outstanding achievements -Employee Assistance Plan -A comprehensive healthcare plan through our company-funded scheme -Salary Finance -EVolve Car Scheme -Mental health first aiders -A competitive pension scheme with up to 14% employer contribution, 21% combined, and life cover -Deals and discounts -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 -Wealth at Work courses -MORE Choices flexible benefits

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.

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