Outage Planner, UK in Widnes

Do you have a desire to work for a renewable energy provider? Do you have experience of engineering planning or are you looking for a change in direction but have the transferrable skills to make it in the renewable power generation industry? Are you ready to help us create ‘Ever Better Energy’?

Reporting to the Senior Outage Planner, the Outage Planner will work alongside the site teams to support the development, optimisation, monitoring, and tracking of outage work scopes across our portfolio of 12 power plants. The role involves coordinating outage plans, integrating maintenance and operational requirements, and ensuring work scopes are clearly defined, scheduled, and progress is accurately tracked to support safe, efficient, and timely outage delivery.

Summary of key responsibilities

• Develop and implement outage plans alongside site teams for the biomass plant in line with company strategy. Monitor their progress and report variances and recommend corrective actions as required.
• Oversee both the short-term and long-term performance, suitability and effectiveness of the site’s outage plans.
• Compare outage plans across sites to identify potential synergies, as well as ensuring outages are scheduled in a manner that reduces risk to a number of business functions (service, finance, procurement etc).
• Prepare and maintain job plans, work scopes, and task sequencing to minimize outage duration and cost.
• Work with site teams to ensure availability of materials, tools, spare parts, and specialized equipment prior to outage execution.
• Identify critical path activities and optimize schedules using planning software (MS Project).
• Monitor outage progress and provide schedule updates, forecasts, and variance analysis.
• Support real-time outage execution, making schedule adjustments as needed.
• Track outage performance metrics such as schedule adherence, cost, safety, and quality.
• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement for future outages.
• Interface with procurement and inventory teams to resolve material constraints.
• Support post-outage reporting, closeout documentation, and cost reconciliation.
• Supporting sites on both scheduled and unscheduled outages/shutdown.

Qualifications & Knowledge to succeed

• Engineering degree / HND / HNC or equivalent qualifications & experience with experience of engineering planning in a power generation/engineering/manufacturing environment.
• Detailed experience and understanding of plant outages.
• Experience of maintenance planning and management activities in a large industrial facility.
• Familiar with Microsoft Project is essential.
• Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.

What do we offer?

BWSC gives you access to a great network of possibilities. We build inspiring careers locally and internationally by working to our 1 Team, 1 Goal, 1 Standard ethos. We offer a key position with great colleagues and the possibility to bring your skills into play and growth on a personal level. Whilst working as an Outage Planner at BWSC we offer a starting salary of £40,000 and a great total reward package including:

• Health Care Cash Plan.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Salary Exchange Pension contributions.
• Fixed employer Pension contribution of 6%.
• Contractual sick pay.
• 34 days annual leave (inclusive of the 8 statutory Bank Holidays) with the addition of 1 extra days annual leave for every 5 years of service.
• Life Assurance cover.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Opportunity to earn an annual bonus (depending on business performance).

This role is a full-time role contracted for 40 hours per week, working Monday to Friday. The role will be home-based with the requirement to travel to sites as required. Some ad-hoc national travel may also be required.

For consideration for this position please apply submitting a CV, providing a brief summary of suitability and an indication of current or desired salary package. All applicants must have the right to work in the UK in order to apply. The application deadline is 20th February 2026. We will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so please send your application today.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Simon Pickering at simpi@bwsc.dk.

About BWSC: Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S (BWSC) is a global power plant Operation & Maintenance and technical service provider with engineering expertise, enabling power plant owners to deliver cleaner and affordable energy. We are experts in servicing, upgrading, operating, and maintaining energy systems for diesel, natural gas, and renewable baseload power plants. We help our customers increase reliability and availability of energy production, improve efficiency and performance of their power plant, design and integrate future-proof technologies, and secure lower cost of maintenance. Our people are at the core of everything we do and key to a positive relationship with our customers. We invest in our people and their wellbeing, to ensure continued success and growth of the company.