Hybrid Proactive Maintenance Architect

Southern Water; England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Pension

Life assurance

Health cash plan

Volunteering days

28 days holiday

Occupational health

Retail discount app

Job summary

Southern Water seeks a Proactive Maintenance Manager to design and implement a predictive maintenance framework. You will translate condition-based monitoring data into actionable interventions, coordinating with Digital, OT and data teams to ensure a trusted, connected flow into Maximo.

You will lead the shift toward proactive maintenance, justify investments with measurable reductions in failures and costs, and build a capable team across regional maintenance groups.

Qualifications

• Experience leading condition-based or predictive maintenance in asset-heavy industries.
• Strong grounding in RCM, FMEA and RCA with practical CBM techniques.
• Experience integrating SCADA, IIoT sensors, data platforms and CMMS.

Responsibilities

• Shape the framework for capturing, integrating and analysing asset data and define intervention timing.
• Connect sensor platforms, telemetry and Maximo across teams to create a single trusted data flow.
• Turn predictive alerts into planned work orders and feed outcomes back to improve models.
• Prove value by showing failures avoided, costs saved and service protected to senior leaders.
• Build and lead a team of engineers, reliability analysts and technicians to adapt to new data.

Skills

Predictive maintenance

RCM

FMEA

RCA

SCADA

CMMS

IIoT data

Maximo

Education

Engineering degree

IEng/CEng

CMRP / Vibration cert

Tools

Maximo

Job description

Southern Water seeks a Proactive Maintenance Manager to design and implement a predictive maintenance framework. You will translate condition-based monitoring data into actionable interventions, coordinating with Digital, OT and data teams to ensure a trusted, connected flow into Maximo.

You will lead the shift toward proactive maintenance, justify investments with measurable reductions in failures and costs, and build a capable team across regional maintenance groups.