Maintenance Planner

Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Covanta

Maintenance Planner.

Rookery South Energy Recover Facility, near Stewartby in Bedfordshire.

Reporting directly to the Maintenance Manager, the Maintenance Planner will work in line with Covanta procedures to ensure maintenance activities are completed safely and efficiently.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the safe planning and coordination of maintenance activities at the Rookery South Energy Recovery Facility.

The role of Maintenance Planner:

• Reporting any Health, Safety and Environmental hazard observations, near miss, accidents, or incidents to the Maintenance manager.
• The Maintenance Planner will be required to support H&S monitoring and performance to include safety inspections, plant inspections, plant area responsibilities and partake in routine H&S meetings and forums.
• Work in full compliance with Covanta’s Safe System of Work and Site Safety Rules.
• Participate in facility improvement processes, co-ordinate corrective actions, defect notifications and rectification.
• The Maintenance Planner will be responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining the site Maintenance Management system.
• Track planned maintenance activities, spare parts, work orders and create suitable weekly reports to the site management.
• Communicate and co-ordinate maintenance and outage planning to the onsite O&M teams and the wider Covanta Engineering and Maintenance departments.
• Develop, implement and maintain maintenance procedures, strategies, method statements and risk assessments required for onsite maintenance activities.
• Responsible for outage planning and integration through to execution. Managing outages in line with the CDM requirements. Lead and co-ordinate pre/post outage review meetings and deliver end of outage reports.
• Ensure maintenance work is carryout within Covanta’s codes of practices, maintenance strategies and the UK best practice.
• Lead the procurement of maintenance contracted services and the selection of competent contractors. Review contractor risk assessments method statements, lifting plans and associated work package documentation.
• Lead plant failure Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations, leading to plant improvements to increase plant availability and integrity.
• Take an active role in the Management of Change (MOC) process. To include document management control, MOC guidance and assisting the O&M teams to complete all administrative aspects to drive to completion.
• Review corrective, preventative and proactive maintenance programs to support plant integrity. This will include analysis of work orders, technical proposals, costings to assist in specifying future CAPEX and project implementation.
• Contactable during emergency situations and plant breakdowns when necessary.

Supervisory responsibilities:

Provide supervisory support to the Inventory Coordinator to ensure the integration of stores management delivers operational and maintenance requirements.

Qualifications:

The preferred levels of education are a Higher National Diploma or National Vocational Qualification Level 4 or 3 in a technical or science subject, although relevant other qualifications with energy recovery or large process plant experience will be considered for the role.

An apprenticeship completed in an engineering discipline will also be considered.

Prince2 qualification in project management is desirable.

Experience:

• Experience of maintenance planning and management activities in a large industrial facility.
• Working knowledge of Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Industrial plant outage planning and execution.
• Experience of managing contractors and work packages.
• Working knowledge of COSHH.
• Familiar with Microsoft Project is desirable.
• Familiar with outage management and CDM regulations is desirable.
• Demonstrates commitment to continuous improvement.

Specific skills:

• Excellent English in terms of written and verbal communication.
• High levels of IT literacy.
• Ability to read, analyse, and interpret general, technical procedures and documentation.
• The ability to understand plant drawings and diagrams.
• Ability to write reports and effectively present technical information to the rest of the Rookery South ERF Team.
• A high technical understanding with directly transferable experience of large boiler and rotating plant.
• A basic level of mathematical skills will be expected for this role. To include but are not limited to, add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measurement. Ability to calculate rate, ratio, percent and develop and interpret graphs.
• Use of project planning software.

Other skills & abilities:

• Ability to take appropriate safe action on their own initiative or directed to prevent equipment damage and prevent injury to personnel during emergencies or unusual situations.
• Ability to share knowledge and experiences.
• Ability to analyse technical problems and provide effective solutions.
• Performance driven to assist in the improvement of operational performance.

A highly competitive facility level compensation program will be provided to the successful candidate including base salary, performance-based incentive bonus, and additional facility level benefits.