Field Materials Engineer-Water.

Reed; Nantwich; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

United Utilities in the UK is seeking a Field Materials Engineer to plan and allocate maintenance activities across UU Cheshire sites in a hybrid setup. You will develop and issue short, medium and long term maintenance plans, liaise with contractors for material quotes and build Bills of Materials to support scheduled work.

You will ensure safety is at the forefront, capture knowledge from senior staff, and drive continuous improvement in planning and scheduling to boost asset reliability.

Qualifications

• Qualified to HNC or NVQ level 3 in Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation engineering.
• Experience in maintenance across water or similar industry.
• Ability to estimate labour hours, material requirements and skills needed.
• Excellent planning skills and ability to work logically and efficiently.
• Knowledge of health and safety processes and procedures.
• Full UK Driving Licence and ability to liaise with contractors and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Plan and allocate maintenance activities across UU sites in a defined area.
• Develop short, medium and long term maintenance plans for assets.
• Speak with contractors and suppliers to obtain quotes for materials.
• Review quotes, quantify spares and materials, and build bills of materials.
• Liaise with maintenance teams and scheduling to ensure correct specifications.
• Proactively plan asset downtime with minimal disruption to processes.
• Create, maintain and improve the library of maintenance job plans.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning processes and attend planning meetings.

Skills

Safety awareness

Planning

Communication

Teamwork

Education

HNC or NVQ level 3 in Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation engineering

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

Company: United Utilities

Role: Field Materials Engineer

Location: UU Cheshire sites/Hybrid

Pay: GBP26.56 PAYE or GBP34.23 Umbrella

Length of contract: 12-month rolling

Hours per week-37 Monday to Friday

Introduction:

We have excellent opportunities for you to be part of our Maintenance Excellence programme as a Field Maintenance Planning Engineer within our Planning and Scheduling Team.

You will be responsible for the planning and allocation of maintenance activities across a number of UU sites in a defined area. You'll be working with the maintenance teams to deliver safe and cost-effective asset reliability, playing a key part in the move from reactive to proactive maintenance. Liaising with the maintenance and operational teams you will develop maintenance job plans that are accurate and ready for work scheduling and execution.

This will include; people, skillsets requirements, estimated job duration, materials or parts requirements, special tools/ equipment, developing work instructions which include essential safety requirements

Job plans for pumps motors gear boxes, Instruments equipment.

Reviewing quotes for materials

Own vehicle 45 pence a mile

12 months

37 per week 7-3 or 8-4

The Role

You will be responsible for ensuring safety is at the forefront of planning activity and hazards are identified upfront for all planned maintenance activity, developing and issuing the short, medium and long term maintenance plan for assets within a designated area. You will also be responsible for:

Speaking with contractors /FSE's/suppliers and getting quotes for materials

Health and safety checks

Capturing knowledge from more senior engineers and then writing up plans for the less experienced staff.

Quantifying and requesting spares, materials and services maintenance activities, adding materials to work orders as required. Liaise with maintenance teams, scheduling and supply chain to confirm correct specifications and build bills of materials for critical and repeat fail assets.

Reviewing all new corrective work raised for planning to ensure appropriate priority allocation

Job plans for pumps motors gear boxes, Instruments equipment.

Reviewing quotes for materials

Proactively planning asset downtime to have minimal disruption to treatment plans and processes

Creating, maintaining and improving the library of maintenance job plans

Working with operations, maintenance teams and ADT engineers to continuously adapt maintenance plans where necessary in order to increase asset reliability

Driving continuous improvement within the planning and scheduling team to improve the maintenance planning processes aligned with the overall work management strategy

Day to day liaison with scheduling colleagues to support the development of executable schedules

Participating in regular planning meetings that produce agreed maintenance plans (1 week - 1year)

Requesting asset availability/shutdowns required to deliver proactive maintenance, maximising opportunities for multiple activity completion in a planned manner. Report on failed maintenance opportunities and use findings to drive continuous improvement

Key accountabilities

To be considered for this role you will need to be qualified to either HNC or NVQ level 3 (or equivalent) in a Mechanical, Electrical, or Instrumentation engineering discipline and have significant experience gained through either a time served apprenticeship or hands‑on experience, which is essential to meet the needs of the business in relevant related fields.

You’ll have a detailed engineering background along with initiative and attention to detail together with experience of maintenance across a water or other similar industry. You will also have:

In depth maintenance knowledge and skill to accurately estimate labour hours, material requirements and skills needed to complete a job

In-depth knowledge of plant operations and equipment and Health and Safety processes

Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office

A good understanding of SAP, MARS way of working, work orders and maintenance planning principles.

Understanding of root cause analysis and failure analysis

Ability to work effectively as part of a team across different stakeholders (technical and non-technical colleagues) and on own initiative

Excellent planning skills and able to work logically and efficiently, maximising available resource/asset availability

Ability to communicate effective with a range of stakeholders

Awareness of industry Safety Standards and work authorisation procedures

A Full UK Driving Licence

To be considered for this role, please forward an up to date CV.