Planning and Work Specifier

We have a unique opportunity for a Planning and Work Specifier to join Fleet Turbine & Maintenance (FT&M) Group, based at Heysham 2, with additional support provided across our UK-wide fleet.

The Opportunity

As a Planning and Work Specifier within the Fleet Turbine & Maintenance Group, you will play a key role in preparing outage plans and engineering work requests into detailed work order cards, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality maintenance delivery.

Pay, Benefits and Salary

You will work 37hrs per week. However, opportunities to increase this will be available during planned periods of maintenance subject to management approval.

Remuneration will be based on experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

Work Management

* Write and approve Work Order Cards (WOCs), developing engineered solutions to address reported defects.

* Specify additional tasks to ensure the correct resources and procedures are included in work packages.

* Support improvements to maintenance instructions and check sheets.

* Identify and specify appropriate spare parts in line with Supply Chain procedures.

* Produce task-related risk assessments, including safety requirements.

* Ensure work packages meet required standards and support successful execution.

* Monitor completion of work packages against plan.

* Provide reports following work package close-out.

Planning

* Review station worklists in line with outage planning processes.

* Develop fully resourced, logic-linked outage plans for specific plant areas.

* Review historic plans to identify improvements and lessons learned.

* Continuously assess plan logic, constraints, and conflicts, resolving issues or escalating where needed.

* Integrate outage plans across plant areas and shared services.

* Liaise with engineers and team leaders to track progress and update plans.

* Identify risks and issues, resolving where possible or escalating appropriately.

* Provide regular progress updates and “look-ahead” insights.

* Manage plan changes due to scope adjustments and contingency activities.

Who You Are

As a minimum, you’ll hold an HNC (or equivalent) in a mechanical or electrical engineering discipline. An IOSH qualification would be advantageous.

You’ll ideally have:

* Experience within a power station or heavy industry environment.

* Awareness of industry, company, and legislative requirements for safe and reliable operations.

* Strong working knowledge of mechanical and electrical equipment.

* A background in maintenance and engineering practices