South West Water keeps the South West flowing with safe, reliable drinking water and wastewater services across some of the UK’s most stunning landscapes.
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About the Role
As Planned Maintenance Manager, you will lead the planning, scheduling and delivery of maintenance activities across critical Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) assets that support essential water and wastewater services. This is an exciting opportunity for a strong engineering leader who enjoys balancing operational priorities, people management and technical problem‑solving. You will play a vital role in ensuring our assets remain safe, compliant, reliable and available.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop and manage planned maintenance schedules for operational M&E assets.
- Prioritise workloads and ensure maintenance activities are delivered within agreed service levels.
- Build strong relationships with operational teams to understand business priorities and regulatory requirements.
- Manage external M&E service providers and contractors.
- Work with stores and logistics teams to ensure availability of critical parts and materials.
- Identify opportunities to improve maintenance scheduling, processes and asset performance.
- Provide technical leadership, supporting complex fault diagnosis and problem resolution.
- Lead, coach and develop team members to achieve individual and team objectives.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety and operational standards.
- Manage assigned operational and capital budgets.
- Support business resilience through participation in the regional Duty Manager rota.
What We Are Looking For
You will be a capable people leader with a strong engineering background and the ability to make sound operational decisions in a fast‑paced environment.
Essential
- Completed Mechanical or Electrical apprenticeship or equivalent qualification.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Experience leading and developing frontline teams.
- Engineering maintenance supervisory experience.
- Strong understanding of mechanical and electrical assets and maintenance principles.
- Experience managing priorities and making operational decisions.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Knowledge of health and safety requirements and safe systems of work.
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office.
Desirable
- Water or process industry experience.
- Recognised management qualification.
- ATEX/JTL CompEx qualifications.
- NEBOSH General Certificate.
- Experience of budget management, root cause analysis and asset contingency planning.
What’s in it for you?
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a critical maintenance function, influence operational performance and help deliver essential services that support communities and protect the environment. If you’re an experienced engineering leader looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
- Generous holiday allowance with the ability to buy and sell annual leave for added flexibility.
- Competitive company pension scheme.
- Training and development within the role.
- Access to thousands of discounts and vouchers through Pennon Perks.
- 24/7 support with our Employee Assistance Programme.
- Discretionary bonus.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- And more!
Closing Date
22nd July 2026
Please note that the successful candidate will be subject to a mandatory DBS check as part of the onboarding process.
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