Senior Outage Planner

ASTUTE Technical Recruitment Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Outage Planner to support a fleet of Biomass and Energy from Waste Power Stations. In this role, you will lead a team of planners, coordinate outage plans, and provide strategic input on outage performance. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in a similar role, preferably in the power sector, and hold relevant engineering qualifications. This position offers a competitive salary up to £60,000, along with additional benefits such as a health care cash plan and pension contributions.

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 in the power sector.
• Minimum 3 years in a supervisory or leadership role.
• Familiarity with safe working practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of planners ensuring strong collaboration across sites.
• Develop and implement outage plans with site teams.
• Monitor outage progress and provide forecasts.

Skills

Leadership

Planning

Communication

Safety Practices

IT Literacy

Education

Relevant Engineering Qualification Level 3

IOSH or NEBOSH Certification

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Overview

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

Working within the centralised Engineering Team, you’ll be responsible for leading a team of planners and coordinating the development, monitoring and delivery of outage work scopes across the facilities. This includes working closely with the site teams to coordinate outage plans, identifying O&M requirements and managing timely delivery.

If you have the right skills & experience and want to find out more, please get in touch!

Responsibilities and duties

• Reporting to the O&M Improvement Director, you will be responsible for: Providing guidance and leadership to Outage Planners to ensure strong working relationships across the fleet.
• Provide strategic input on outage performance, risks, opportunities and emerging trends.
• Develop and implement outage plans in collaboration with site teams and planners.
• Oversee the short- and long-term effectiveness, suitability, and performance of site outage plans.
• Monitor outage progress and provide updates, forecasts and variance analysis to wider business functions.
• Support real-time outage delivery and make adjustments as required for both scheduled and unscheduled outages.
• Track and monitor outage performance against key metrics including cost, safety, quality and timeframes.
• 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)
• At least three years in a supervisory or leadership role.
• 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 £60,000 (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.