Forward Planner - Warrington, United Kingdom - United Utilities

United Utilities

Verified Company

Warrington, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Working closely with the planning and scheduling team as well as with other teams across the business, you'll prepare and review planned activities for the month ahead, aligned with the availability of resources and taking into account the impact of a reactive work forecast for the same period.

You'll Identify and resolve any dependencies such as material ordering, plant and tools, external contractor arrangements, partner resources, asset availability, Asset outages, permits and ensure materials are identified and arranged/ordered as stock or non-stock.

You'll also be working closely with the Learning and Development team to ascertain available training courses for the Field team to attend, providing accurate and up to date information on training dates/courses.

Job Accountabilities:

You'll be responsible for forward planning of all Preventative, Predictive & Corrective maintenance activities at UU sites that the Planning team schedule for.

You'll ensure that all tasks are scheduled optimally, taking into account business needs which will enable us to have a full Holistic view when creating operational schedules for Field Staff.

You'll also be responsible for:

Resource management activities, but not limited to: Training (classroom and E Learning), Van Servicing, Mandatory Health Appointments and Meetings for all operational Field staff within Work Management. Additional areas within role would be to prepare and review
Ensuring work priorities and business drivers are aligned. Factors such as budget restrictions, resource restrictions, seasonal weather etc. could impact work priority & Identifying where it is effective and efficient to bundle work together to make the best use of resource.
Liaising with the Planning and Forecasting team identifying events that need to be forward planned to allow them to add to their forecasts.
Working alongside the inday scheduling teams managing disruption on the day for any Forward Planning Events.
Ensuring all work is recorded, prioritised and scheduled in accordance with agreed business rules to maximise the effective and efficient delivery of work carried out by the field teams you support.
Maintaining all tasks, including further work to ensure all records are always kept up to date including job details, appointments, job statuses, relevant time & dates.
Responding quickly and efficiently to queries from internal and external customers.

Knowledge and Skills:

To be considered for this role you'll need to have an excellent understanding of the Water and Wastewater processes to a level that will enable sensible interactions with operations staff.

Along with an understanding of company policy and procedures.

You'll also:

Understand the lifecycle of a Work Order and how Work Orders should be generated and completed.
Have excellent, effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with good interpersonal skills at all levels.
Be able to cope with fluctuating workloads and dealing with high volumes of work at any given time. Also have the ability to work under pressure, whilst still maintaining the required attention to detail.
Be an excellent team player who also has the ability to work independently.
Hold a full UK Driving licence

Additional Information:

We need fantastic people to enable us to deliver a great service to the public. We are committed to reaching and recruiting from every community and then supporting employees to achieve their full potential ensuring they feel valued and included, regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, sexual orientation or social background.

Closing Date:02/05/23