Maintenance Optimisation Coordinator

About us

Salary - £49,566.00

Work Type - Hybrid

Job Location - Lingley Mere (UU), Lingley Green Avenue, Great Sankey, Warrington, WA5 3LP

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.

Benefits

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

Job Purpose

It's an exciting time to join our high pace team as we provide tangible improvements to the business. Your knowledge and experience will help us achieve the following goal:

The objectives of Maintenance Services within United Utilities are to focus on maximising equipment reliability, minimising downtime, and optimising maintenance resources to support overall operational efficiency. Our key goals include ensuring asset availability, extending equipment lifespan, reducing maintenance costs, and enhancing safety and environmental compliance. To achieve this, we develop and implement proactive strategies such as preventive and predictive maintenance. Ultimately, it seeks to align maintenance activities with business objectives, to improve productivity, and contribute to sustained organisational performance.

The Maintenance Optimisation Coordinator shall lead on providing specific maintenance technical support to operational businesses (Water Services, Wastewater Treatment, Bio-resource and Ww Network).

You will be responsible for developing and applying a standard approach to preventative maintenance across United Utilities (UU) and ensuring that continuous improvements are made for the delivery of preventative maintenance.

You will be responsible for analysing asset reliability parameters and prioritising intervention, utilising Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) to identify areas of improvement (e.g. preventative maintenance tasks, procedures, asset standards).Working with technical specialists and others you will be responsible for developing preventative maintenance tasks, utilising Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), ensuring governance of change is completed.

You will be involved in the Maintenance Excellence Improvement Programme (MEIP), leading on improvements areas identified for preventative maintenance, and supporting other areas of the programme.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Achieve CI of maintenance processes and standards, by analysis of failures utilising the RCFA process. Develop a standard preventative (PM) and predictive (PdM) task library (Maintenance Work bank) to include information on resources, dependencies, measuring points, services parts, and critical spares.
• Working under the direction of the Maintenance Optimisation Manager to assist with preventative maintenance strategy deployment.
• Identify triggers for preventative maintenance reviews (RCFA outputs, Maintenance KPI's, Business Driver, New Technology) and perform the maintenance review using the defined business process and maintenance analytical techniques (Failure Mode Effects Analysis).
• Perform asset criticality analysis utilising the agreed business process for asset criticality.
• Ensure robust governance of change is performed on all changes to the preventative maintenance strategy (Maintenance Work bank), utilising the agreed business process.
• Ensure robust governance of change is performed on all changes to the asset criticality scoring, utilising the agreed business process.
• Work with the Work Management team to make or simulate changes to the maintenance task deployment system.
• Provide support to other areas of the business to assist in continuous improvement of the preventative maintenance strategy
• You are expected to deputise for the Maintenance Optimisation Manager.

Technical Skills & Experience

Minimum qualifications for the role will normally be proven relevant experience in a technical environment together with a professional qualification (preferably an HNC). Practical experience will also be considered.

A high level of applicable technical knowledge .

An understanding of Preventative Maintenance Optimisation.

Working Knowledge of Statutory legislation and Regulatory obligations to ensure compliance with requirements.

Familiarity with Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA).

Familiarity with Root Cause Failure Analysis techniques and processes.

Analytical skills to enable prioritisation and identification of improvement areas.