Location: Heysham 2 Power Station
Hours: 37 hours per week (with additional maintenance-period opportunities)
Salary: Competitive – dependent on experience
The Opportunity
NRL has an exciting opportunity for a Planning and Work Specifier to join our clients team based at Heysham 2, with the chance to support outages and maintenance activity across their UK-wide nuclear fleet.
This role will focus on supporting safe, efficient and high-quality maintenance delivery. You will be responsible for converting outage plans and engineering work requests into fully developed work packages, ensuring work is properly planned, resourced, and executed to the highest standards.
Key Responsibilities
Work Management
Write and approve Work Order Cards (WOCs), developing engineered solutions to reported defects
Additional tasks as required, to ensure work packages include the correct resources, tooling and procedures
Support continuous improvements
Identify specific required spare parts in line with Supply Chain procedures
Produce task-specific risk assessments, including safety and compliance requirements
Ensure work packages meet station and company standards
Monitor completion of work packages against plan and provide close‑out reportsPlanning
Review station worklists in line with outage planning processes
Develop fully resourced, logic-linked outage plans for assigned plant areas
Review historic plans to identify opportunities for improvement and lessons learned
Identify and resolve planning conflicts, constraints and risks, escalating where appropriate
Integrate outage plans across plant areas and shared services
Liaise with engineers and team leaders to track progress and update plans
Provide regular progress reports and forward “look-ahead” planning insight
Manage plan changes resulting from scope variation or contingency work
About You
You will be a motivated planning or engineering professional with a strong understanding of maintenance execution within a regulated or heavy industrial environment.
Essential
HNC (or equivalent) in a mechanical or electrical engineering discipline
Experience within a power station or heavy industry environment.
Able to Write and approve Work Order Cards (WOCs)
Strong working knowledge of mechanical and electrical plant and equipment
Background in engineering maintenance practices and work management
Desirable
IOSH qualification
Knowledge of industry, company and legislative requirements for safe and reliable operationsApply Now
If you’re looking for a technically challenging role where your planning and engineering expertise will directly contribute to safe and successful nuclear operations, we’d like to hear from you. Please contact us at (url removed) with you CV
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Salary description
£45000.00 - £73000.00 per year