Distribution Maintenance Planner

Company Description

Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• Competitive salary £26,976 to £33,059 (working 37 hours)
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• Development opportunities in line with Distribution Maintenance Planner progression plan
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays plus an extra wellness day! (additional days in lieu of working any bank holidays)
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• A great benefits package choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location
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This role will initially be based in Bradford (2 days in the office a week with hybrid working) but we are moving our office to Leeds Valley Park in summer 2026, so you’ll be based there in the future.

Work type
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Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday Friday.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Distribution Maintenance Planner within Distribution Maintenance at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, its so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshires water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the regions health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. Water Planning and Engineering are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

We are currently looking for a Distribution Maintenance Planner within Distribution Maintenance to assist the business and directly contribute to providing clean and safe drinking water. A key measure of this performance commitment is the Drinking Water Quality Contacts measure. Our Distribution Maintenance Planner will add real value with their distribution knowledge and experience, facilitating the undertaking of a specialised activity on the network.

Your skill set will also help us to establish best working practices to optimise our performance, being able to achieve the reduction of water quality contacts we receive as a business.

We have highlighted the top 200 DMAs by number of water quality contacts received. This is a real opportunity to directly contribute to one of our main performance commitments, playing a pivotal role in assisting the business outperform. You will be working in a variety of areas, including but not limited to; planning, risk mitigation, enabling works, logging, logistics and resource management.

As our Distributions Maintenance Planner you will:

• Be responsible for the logistics and resource planning for flushing teams and oversee localised end FH flushing programme
• Mitigate and plan all work including WAND, warning letters, blasting and TMA
• Undertake data collection and inputting and co‑coordinate in zone surveys
• Plan pre and post logger deployment, balanced against other activities
• Organise /facilitate changes to plans or resources when unforeseen issues arise, informing and communicating with relevant parties of all planned work including waste, control etc
• Plan in out of hours work and all relevant mitigation and contingencies
• Use Advantex to schedule work to technicians
• Effectively schedule cyclical hydrant flushes to known…