Maintenance Planner

Salary - £48,979

Work Type - Onsite

Job Location - Watchgate Water Treatment Works, Selside, Kendal, LA8 9LQ

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 7.5% 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

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 across the Northern operating area (Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester). 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, 26 days holiday (increasing to 30 with service) as well as loads of flexible benefits you'll want to hear more about.

You will be responsible for the planning and of specified 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

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

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:

• 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.
• Create, maintain, and improve a comprehensive library of maintenance job plans, adapting them to increase asset reliability in collaboration with operations and engineering teams.
• Drive continuous improvement within the planning and scheduling team, aligning processes with the overall work management strategy.
• 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.

Technical Skills & Experience

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 nontechnical 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

Qualifications

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 busine