Outage Planner x3

 

Main characteristics

Location

Prenton, Merseyside

Company

Morson Talent

Employment type

Contract

Category

Administration

Job summary

Our client Scottish Power are currently recruiting for Outage Planners to join their team based in Prenton on a contract basis initially. Ideally for this role they are looking for a candidate with strong experience with Microsoft office in particular Excel and also someone capable of planning for resources to be allocated as is important in this role to minimise planned outages. For more information on this opportunity see below:

Recruitment for 2 Outage Planners in SPM Vegetation Management team within Licence Programmes.

Purpose
As an Outage Planner within the Vegetation Management team, you will assess the Vegetation Contractors outage request, plan and organise the pre vet and programme the works. This role includes interrogating the required outage, creating network and geographical plans of the works, booking outages in the District Outage Planner (DOP) and other miscellaneous tasks associated with planned outages.

Responsibilities
Plan outage works including enabling pre vet of the works, preparing plans, and liaising with contractors and third parties
Support the Vegetation management team in delivering their requirements to ensuring vegetation does not cause public or network risk to overhead powerlines
Assess requests for planned interruptions by understanding the scope of the request
Process outage requests through SPEN Outage Planning Process
Contribute to the minimisation of GS4 failures and proactive payments
Provide excellent customer service through ensuring highest possible level of accuracy in identifying which customers will be affected by an outage
Contribute to improving customer service by detecting inaccuracies in customer records and addressing those via data bureau.
Involve the team in finding solutions to the areas where performance is not on target.
Focus on continuous improvement through quality processes, capturing feedback and issues from audits, etc. and influence the addressing any non-conformances on an urgent basis.

Skills & Requirements
Basic knowledge of health, safety, and environmental legislation.
Good inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to form effective working relationships with other individuals, departments, and businesses.
Able to assess conflicting data to form accurate judgements
Forms excellent working relationships
Skilled communicator, able to interact effectively with a range of external and internal customers
Methodical and well organised
An ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales is essential
Skilled with main Microsoft Office products and an aptitude for learning bespoke systems
Knowledge of TroubleCall/PowerOn IT System preferable.

Projects
Project Name: Vegetation Transformation & Resilience 24
Project Description and Main Goals: To manage the vegetation near overhead lines as to ensure the safety to the public and minimise risk to network performance. The project seeks to remove backlog works as to ensure compliance with statutory requirements