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United Utilities provides water and wastewater services to around seven million people in the North West of England supplying 3million households and 200,000 business premises.
We manage the catchment land around our reservoirs to safeguard the quality of the raw water we collect and store.
We then treat and deliver it to our customer's taps - around 1,500 million litres a day We also collect wastewater from our customers and surface water from roads and highways, treat it at our wastewater treatment works before returning it back safely to the environment.
Job: Maintenance Sourcing Engineer
Site location: Haweswater Building, Mere Business Park, Lingley Green Ave, Great Sankey, LingleyWA53LP
Working hours- 37 per week Monday to Friday
Day rate: £169 per day PAYE
Contract: 6 months rolling contract
Job Purpose:
To source effectively maintenance related parts and services in order to provide exceptional customer experiences for our operational teams using your knowledge of mechanical, electrical and instrumentation equipment.
Responsible for delivery against identified maintenance and commercial KPI’s to meet the wider strategic requirements of the business.
To ensure UU has a work order cycle time as low as practically possible whilst improving asset availability and reliability at the lowest whole life cost to ensure the safe and efficient operation of our Water, Wastewater, Bioresources and Wastewater Network asset base.
Main responsibilities:
Key areas of the job and how you test successful delivery of the accountability (in addition to these functions, employees are required to carry out such other duties as may be reasonably required) •
"Triage" of initial work requests to ensure correct process has been followed and that work requests follow the correct sourcing route
• Manage sourcing activity coordination and processes relating to asset repairs or replacements including supplier selection, capability assessment, quality improvement, and supplier readiness using knowledge and skills of mechanical, instrumentation and electrical equipment.
• Act as a technical liaison between suppliers, engineers and operational managers
• Develop and implement a continuous improvement culture with our suppliers in order to reduce repair cycle times whilst ensuring precision engineering techniques are being used on our assets • Manage the performance of suppliers; including health and safety, cost evaluation, quality, and repair cycle times
• Strong communication skills required in order to liaise with internal departments and external suppliers regarding technical work information and commercial compliance
• To build strong working relationships with teams across the business, including work management, asset management, field teams, inventory, purchasing and commercial to ensure collaborative working that delivers a reliability framework and ultimately drives business performance towards our corporate aims and objectives
• Build alignment for organisational and behavioural changes in order to create and sustain a Reliability culture across UU in line with the Maintenance Reliability Strategy and Systems Thinking capabilities
• Work with Inventory to ensure correct BoMs for critical assets and that all parts have unique reference number in our CMMS
• To review, strip and inspect reports and understanding root cause of failures. This understanding needs to be translated into areas of improvement in our PM, PdM, Asset Reliability and Inventory strategies and fed through the analysis process
• To provide standardised data and analytics across Maintenance Sourcing that feed into performance reports, risks and issues, contractor performance and lessons learnt to aid continuous improvement
To carry out work assurance across the approved contractors to ensure the highest standards of safety behaviour and that they have the correct capabilities, training and tools to deliver an effective maintenance service to UU
Skills required:
Strong communicator
Multitasker
Excellent organisation skills
Someone with rotating machinery experience (Pumps motors Generators etc)
Knowledge of the machinery repair timescales
Valid UK Driver Licence
Please forward an up to date CV for this role.
