Maintenance Planner

Job number UU04265 Country United Kingdom Region Lancashire Location name Haslingden Grane Water Treatment Works, Grane Road, Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 4AU
Posting End Date 01/02/2026 Band 5a Role Type Permanent Work hours 37 Hours per Week Salary £48,979

To provide great water for a stronger, greener and healthier North West

Salary - £48,979
Work Type - Onsite
Job Location - Haslingden Grane Water Treatment Works, Grane Road, Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 4AU

Role Type - Permanent
Employment Type - Full Time
Working Hours - 37.0 Hours per Week

• 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
• My Gym Discounts  - 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
• Share Buy
• MORE Choices flexible benefits
• Enhanced parental leave schemes

We have excellent opportunities for you to be part of our Maintenance Excellence programme as a Maintenance Planner within our Planning and Scheduling Team.

You will be responsible for the planning and allocation of 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

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. Liaise with maintenance teams, scheduling and supply chain to confirm correct specifications and build bills of materials for critical and repeat fail assets.
• 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 - 1year)
• 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

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…