Operations and Maintenance Regional Planner

Operations and Maintenance Regional Planner

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Based in our Bath Office, the O&M Regional Planner plays a crucial role in efficiently scheduling and coordinating maintenance activities, ensuring alignment with available resources, planning strategies, and operational requirements while meeting client contractual expectations. A significant aspect of the role involves fostering and maintaining strong client relations and positive business-to-business connections with stakeholders, including asset management and the regional O&M managers.

Responsibilities of the Role

• Plan work initiated through O&M contractual planned maintenance requirements, ensure resources are available, and work is carried out in line with maintenance plans, asset criticalities and any contract response times (where applicable).
• Determine and monitor labour capacity to develop future-looking work plans to maximise resource utilisation.
• Provide dynamic decision making on reactive issues arising in the region(s).
• Schedule corrective and preventative maintenance through the company’s systems.
• Respond to client queries within the assigned regions.
• Own the region\\\’s scheduling daily, track the monthly plan, and ensure adherence.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders (written and verbal).
• Travel periodically to aligned regions to meet teams and participate in regional meetings; present data on region performance for planned and corrective maintenance activities.
• Produce the annual Preventative Maintenance plan for all solar farms within the aligned region to meet contractual obligations.
• Manage, control, and fulfil the O&M maintenance plans.
• Manage the CMMS for activities such as creating work orders, quotations, and purchase orders.
• Organise contractor works within the region and update clients on progress.
• Use and support the development of operation management systems and planning tools.
• Drive profitability on work orders.

Experience & Knowledge Required

• Proven experience in a similar role.
• Demonstrable experience in O&M business, including planning and quarterly planning.

Skills Required

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling: plan and schedule corrective and preventive maintenance activities aligned to contractual and operational requirements.
• Labour Capacity Management: determine and monitor labour capacity for future work plans.
• Experience with EAMS/CMMS: using Enterprise Asset Management Systems or similar for creating work orders, quotations, purchase orders, maintenance scheduling, and reporting.
• Procurement Knowledge: experience with procurement processes related to maintenance activities.
• Data Analysis: strong analytical and numerical skills for planning, decision-making, and performance tracking.
• Use of Planning Tools & Systems: proficiency with operation management and planning systems to develop and support maintenance plans.
• Microsoft Office Proficiency: comfortable using Excel, Word, Outlook, and possibly PowerPoint for reporting and communication.

Education Required

• Planning background advantageous or similar electrical background.
• Planning-related qualifications.
• Degree level or equivalent would be advantageous.

Why you’ll want to work for us

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow, a place where your ideas and opinions matter.

Be you: We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

Be responsible: Our culture is driven by our core values – from operating safely to ensuring our projects are responsible.

Be recognized: Alongside a competitive salary, we offer benefits including annual bonus, retention bonus, health insurance, pension, and other local benefits.

Be inspired: Our initiatives contribute to personal development, including charitable causes, volunteering, and other programs.

Our core values: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability, and Drive guide everything we do.

For more information on our career opportunities and life at Lightsource bp, please visit https://www.lightsourcebp.com/careers/

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Renewable Energy
• Semiconductor Manufacturing

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