About the role:
As part of the Proactive Maintenance Team, this is a role that operates as a technical expert. The team supports the Asset Management function to meet customer expectations and regulatory targets. This is achieved through:
- Conducting criticality assessments and defining scores for new and existing assets
- Recommending system-specific maintenance programmes based on data and insight
- Tracking production losses and abnormally high maintenance costs on assets whilst finding ways to reduce those losses or high costs
- Creation and performance assessment of site and system-specific Maintenance Programme and SOPs utilising outputs
- Managing the Asset Information Lifecycle processes and associated data, both static and dynamic
- Creation of reporting and recommendations to Asset Management and Operations Functions
Key Accountabilities:
- The development and continual improvement of capability, systems and processes to optimise reliability centred maintenance, master data management, maintenance plans, and data and insight.
- Collaboration across departments within Asset Management and Operations, looking at amendments to baseline maintenance plans and standards, assuring data in the asset register, as well as feeding into investment needs.
- The role holder will form positive relationships with managers to understand specific requirements.
- They will ensure O&M programmes are dynamically revised in line with criticality to ensure system resilience to allow us to deliver against required operational outcomes.
- Carry out criticality assessments and use the scores to create optimisation plans to eliminate or reduces losses, ensure the reliability of equipment and processes and the overall definition, design, development, monitoring and refinement of asset maintenance plans.
- Carry out continuous improvement on capacity, quality/effectiveness, cost, health and safety and regulatory compliance issues that have adversely affected operations.
- Work with, and provide technical support to the Operations Team including production, maintenance management and technical personnel.
To be successful you will have the following skills and experience:
- Be educated to HNC, degree or equivalent level preferably in a STEM subject.
- Have proven experience of originating and delivering maintenance programmes and of forecasting, scheduling, and planning processes and systems throughout the asset lifecycle.
- Have engineering experience gained within an operational or maintenance environment is essential.
- Possess excellent stakeholder engagement skills along with the technical capability to lead workshops effectively and collaborate, influence and inspire reliability centred maintenance best practices.
- Ability to be strategic and analytical in decision making, judgment and problem solving, and be skilled in change and risk management with a value engineering mindset.
- Possess a high level of customer focus, and a desire to work as a team across different areas of the business.
What’s in it for you:
This role is part of a newly established team and therefore it comes with the opportunity to influence, make changes and improvements to our proactive maintenance processes.
This role is critical to driving a new approach to systems-led, proactive maintenance strategy which is a key aspect of our AMP7 plan.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme. This includes an annual pay review, season ticket loans, voucher scheme giving you money off in major retail outlets, loyalty awards for continuous service plus much more, including our referral scheme, where you can receive £750 for helping someone get a permanent position within the company.
We’re also proud to be here for our local community, offering everyone two days paid volunteer leave a year, as well as proudly supporting a lot of local events and charities.
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About us:
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to millions of customers by supplying 2.7 billion litres of world-class water to around 10 million homes.
As our world changes, the need to take care of our most precious resource is greater than ever, both locally and globally. That’s why, at Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open. We’re passionate about providing world-class tap water, now and for the future.
We’re also turning waste into power, self-generating 20% of the energy we use and, in turn, doing our bit for the planet. We’re reducing plastic waste by celebrating our tap water and rolling out an ambitious water fountain project. We’re using our voice to lobby for change and partnering with WaterAid to provide clean water to the world’s poorest communities.
Together, we’re building a better future for our customers, our region and our planet.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader, welcoming individuals from all walks of life and leading the way with award-winning mental health and well-being strategy.