Job number UU02206
Country: United Kingdom
Region: Cumbria
Location name: Windermere Wastewater Treatment Works, Tower Wood, Bowness, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3PW
Posting End Date: 13/02/2025
Band: 5a
Role Type: Permanent
Work hours: 37 Hours per Week
Salary: 46,869
To provide great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West.
Salary: 46,869
Work Type: Onsite
Job Location: Windermere Wastewater Treatment Works, Tower Wood, Bowness, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3PW
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.
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.
* 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 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, and 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:
* Quantifying and requesting spares, materials and services maintenance activities, adding materials to work orders as required.
* Reviewing all new corrective work raised for planning to ensure appropriate priority allocation.
* Proactively planning asset downtime to have minimal 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 - 1 year).
* 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.
Technical Skills & Experience
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 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.
* A Full UK Driving Licence.
We rely on every employee to ensure our customers receive the best possible service, day in, day out. In return, we ensure that you will be well rewarded for your efforts, from an excellent salary through to development opportunities that will really kick start a thriving career here at UU.
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