Planned Maintenance Manager

South East Water; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water company is seeking a Planned Maintenance Manager to oversee a critical maintenance program. The role involves leading a team, managing maintenance strategies, and ensuring safety and efficiency. Ideal candidates will have strong organizational skills and experience in change management.

Benefits

Stakeholder pension scheme

5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible annual leave policy

Paid volunteering days

Cycle to work scheme

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Wellbeing related benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in managing electrical/mechanical/instrumentation maintenance activity.
• Practical experience of electrical/mechanical/instrumentation maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Manage planned maintenance activities across sites.
• Ensure effective work schedules for maintenance.
• Embed a strong health and safety culture.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Self Motivation

Health and Safety Culture

Education

C&G or relevant electrical/instrumentation qualification

Job description

Planned Maintenance Manager

Summary:

Do you want to manage a critical planned maintenance programme?

Do you have excellent organizational and management skills?

As Production Manager (Planned Maintenance) you will effectively lead a team of Electrical/Instrumentation and Mechanical technicians and manage the planned maintenance programme in order to deliver a top quality, safe, and reliable service to our customers.

You should be someone with proven change management experience and a strong change mindset. Ideally, you will have successfully implemented change initiatives in previous roles, demonstrating the ability to influence, shape, and mould processes to meet organisational needs. You should be change-positive and eager to come in and make this role and team your own.

Main responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivery of planned maintenance activities across our sites. Assisting in reviewing and developing our maintenance strategy, processes and procedures

• Working with the Work Management (Planning & Scheduling) team to ensure effective work schedules are created that prioritise key maintenance activity, and enable efficient and effective use of field resources.

• To embed a strong health and safety culture within the team, ensuring safe people and safe working at all times in line with our Thrive365 strategy.

• Performance manage, develop and fully engage the team in order to maximise efficiency, effectiveness and reliability of the service provided to customers through the use of performance metrics, team briefs, one to ones and appraisals.

• Operational performance management – supporting Production managers in analysing site performance, reliability and water quality to ensure we are maintaining regulatory requirements and optimising site performance.

You'll need:

Skills / Qualifications / Experience

• Qualified to C&G or a relevant electrical/instrumentation technical qualification

• A strong health and safety culture is essential, alongside the ability to be flexible, organised and drive continuous optimisation of our teams and sites.

• Self motivated and committed.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Experience in managing electrical/mechanical/instrumentation maintenance activity.

• Practical experience of electrical/mechanical/instrumentation maintenance.

• Experience in managing an operational budget.

It will be a bonus if you have:

Skills / Qualifications / Experience

• Recognised management qualification

• Experience in managing electrical/mechanical/instrumentation maintenance activity, in the water sector.

• An understanding of water treatment processes would be highly beneficial but is not required.

We want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.

We know the communities we serve are diverse. We recognise creativity comes from diversity not similarity. That’s why we are enthusiastic about creating inclusion across age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and identity. You will experience our dedication to equal opportunities and fair treatment for all: through your recruitment, employment and career progression with South East Water.

Benefits package:

• Excellent Stakeholder pension scheme, up to 10% employer contribution.

• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays per annum, increasing to 6 weeks with length of service.

• Flexible annual leave policy to buy or sell holiday leave.

• Paid volunteering days.

• Cycle to work scheme.

• Health cash plan.

• Life assurance.

• Wellbeing related benefits.

What can you expect from your recruitment?

• To apply for this position, please submit your CV on our career’s website.

• It is necessary for you to have the legal right to work in the UK when you begin employment with South East Water.

• Additionally, as part of the employment offer, you will need to pass background, identity, and employment referencing checks.

If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, apply now!

South East Water kindly asks that recruitment agencies refrain from submitting CVs to our employees or associates without explicit invitation from our HR Resourcing team. CVs sent on a speculative basis will not be acknowledged and will not assume any responsibility for fees or commissions in the event that we hire a candidate who applied directly or subsequently introduced by an instructed agency.

Compensation package:

£40,000 - £50,000 DoE