Planning & Work Specifier

• Planning and Work Specifier
  
• Location: Heysham 2 Power Station
  Hours: 37 hours per week (with additional maintenance-period opportunities)
  
• Salary: Competitive – dependent on experience
  
• The Opportunity
  NRL has an exciting opportunity for a Planning and Work Specifier to join our clients team based at Heysham 2, with the chance to support outages and maintenance activity across their UK-wide nuclear fleet.
  This role will focus on supporting safe, efficient and high-quality maintenance delivery. You will be responsible for converting outage plans and engineering work requests into fully developed work packages, ensuring work is properly planned, resourced, and executed to the highest standards.
  
• Key Responsibilities
  Work Management
  
  • Write and approve Work Order Cards (WOCs), developing engineered solutions to reported defects
  • Additional tasks as required, to ensure work packages include the correct resources, tooling and procedures
  • Support continuous improvements
  • Identify specific required spare parts in line with Supply Chain procedures
  • Produce task-specific risk assessments, including safety and compliance requirements
  • Ensure work packages meet station and company standards
  • Monitor completion of work packages against plan and provide close‑out reports
  Planning
  
  • Review station worklists in line with outage planning processes
  • Develop fully resourced, logic-linked outage plans for assigned plant areas
  • Review historic plans to identify opportunities for improvement and lessons learned
  • Identify and resolve planning conflicts, constraints and risks, escalating where appropriate
  • Integrate outage plans across plant areas and shared services
  • Liaise with engineers and team leaders to track progress and update plans
  • Provide regular progress reports and forward “look-ahead” planning insight
  • Manage plan changes resulting from scope variation or contingency work

• About You
  You will be a motivated planning or engineering professional with a strong understanding of maintenance execution within a regulated or heavy industrial environment.
  Essential
  
  • HNC (or equivalent) in a mechanical or electrical engineering discipline
  • Experience within a power station or heavy industry environment. 
  • Able to Write and approve Work Order Cards (WOCs)
  • Strong working knowledge of mechanical and electrical plant and equipment
  • Background in engineering maintenance practices and work management
   
  Desirable
  
  • IOSH qualification
  • Knowledge of industry, company and legislative requirements for safe and reliable operations

Apply Now
If you’re looking for a technically challenging role where your planning and engineering expertise will directly contribute to safe and successful nuclear operations, we’d like to hear from you. Please contact us at matt.lynas@nrl.co.uk with you CV

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