Outage Planner

Astute People; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Outage Planner to support Biomass and Energy from Waste Power Stations in the UK. The successful candidate will develop and implement outage plans while monitoring their effectiveness. Candidates should have at least 5 years of relevant experience and be familiar with project planning software like MS Project. A competitive salary of up to £50,000 is offered, alongside additional benefits such as a health care cash plan and pension matching.

Benefits

Health Care Cash Plan

Pension match up to 6%

Enterprise Account for Car Rental / Mileage Expenses

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in a similar position on a power station or similar plant.
• Familiarity with safe systems of work and safety rules.
• Comfortable with IT and capable of using planning software.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement outage plans with site teams.
• Oversee effectiveness and performance of site outage plans.
• Monitor outage progress and provide regular updates on schedules.

Skills

Project planning

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

Relevant Engineering discipline (Level 3)

IOSH or NEBOSH in Health and Safety

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Overview

Astutes Power Team are recruiting for an Outage Planner to support a fleet of Biomass and Energy from Waste Power Stations across the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities and duties

• Develop and implement outage plans in collaboration with site teams, aligned with company strategy; monitor progress, report variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Oversee the short- and long-term effectiveness, suitability, and performance of site outage plans.
• Benchmark outage plans across sites to identify synergies and ensure scheduling minimizes risk to key business functions (service, finance, procurement, etc.).
• Prepare and maintain detailed job plans, work scopes, and task sequencing to reduce outage duration and cost.
• Coordinate with site teams to ensure materials, tools, spare parts, and specialist equipment are available ahead of outage execution.
• Identify critical path activities and optimise schedules using planning software (e.g. MS Project).
• Monitor outage progress and provide regular schedule updates, forecasts, and variance analysis.
• Support live outage execution, making real-time schedule adjustments as required.
• Track and report outage performance metrics, including schedule adherence, cost, safety, and quality.
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement for future outages.
• Work with procurement and inventory teams to resolve material constraints.
• Support post-outage reporting, close-out documentation, and cost reconciliation.
• Provide planning and execution support for both scheduled and unplanned outages and shutdowns.

Professional qualifications

• Ideally qualified in a relevant Engineering discipline minimum Level 3.
• Ideally apprentice trained in a relevant Engineering discipline.
• IOSH or NEBOSH in Health and Safety.

Personal skills

• At least 5 years' experience in a similar position on a power station or similar plant. This could be Energy from Waste, Coal, CCGT, Biomass, CHP or Nuclear. Similar Heavy Process Industries will be considered (Papermill, Refinery, Petrochemical etc).
• Familiarity with safe systems of work, safety rules and similar safe working practices.
• IT literate – competent with MS Project for Outage / Engineering planning.
• Comfortable travelling to sites and working with site teams and sub-contractors.

Salary and benefits

• Competitive salary up to £50,000 (DOE).
• Health Care Cash Plan.
• Pension match up to 6%.
• Enterprise Account for Car Rental / Mileage Expenses.
• Opportunity to join a brand new role within the business.

INDPOW

Astute People are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Astute is also committed to the government's Disability Confident Employer initiative. We endeavour to get back to everyone, however, if you have not heard anything after 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.