Rullion
Outage Planner
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Outage Planning Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £65,000 per annum
Benefits: Pension, Bonus, Private Medical, Incentive Plan, 25 Days Holiday
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Outage Planning Engineer to join the Wider Engineering Team. You will be responsible for the planning, coordination, and delivery of major planned outages, inspections, maintenance campaigns, and engineering projects.
Working closely with site outage teams, engineering functions, contractors, and stakeholders, you will develop and manage integrated outage programmes, ensuring work is safely planned, efficiently sequenced, and delivered to agreed timescales, quality standards, and budgets.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and coordination of major planned outages, ensuring safety, programme, cost, and quality KPIs are achieved.
- Develop and manage integrated outage schedules, including milestones, critical paths, resources, and contractor activities.
- Coordinate with Site Outage Managers, Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, H&S, Environmental, and Finance teams.
- Integrate contractor and supplier programmes into the overall outage schedule.
- Monitor outage progress, identify programme risks, and implement recovery actions where required.
- Plan major inspections, overhauls, maintenance campaigns, and emergent works within outage windows.
- Optimise outage scope, sequencing, and duration to minimise downtime and maximise plant availability.
- Support budget forecasting, cost control, contract management, and KPI reporting.
- Apply effective project controls to manage changes and emergent work during outages.
- Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned and post-outage reviews.
- Ensure outages are delivered safely and in accordance with Generation Safety Rules and statutory requirements.
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Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Proven experience in outage, project, or maintenance planning within a large-scale industrial environment.
- Experience planning major outages, shutdowns, inspections, or overhauls, ideally within power generation or process industries.
- Experience with large rotating plant and/or HRSG pressure systems is desirable.
- Strong understanding of the outage lifecycle, from scope development and planning through to execution and close-out.
- Minimum HNC qualification; engineering degree preferred.
- Strong knowledge of Health & Safety, CDM, and environmental legislation.
- Experience with budgets, cost control, contract management, and project controls.
- Good working knowledge of Generation Safety Rules and safe working principles.
- Strong IT skills, including MS Office and planning systems such as Maximo, SAI 360, MS Project, or Primavera.
- Strong analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work to fixed outage windows.
Desirable Skills
- Experience planning CCGT or large-scale power generation outages.
- Experience with turbine, generator, HRSG, or balance-of-plant maintenance programmes.
- Primavera P6 or MS Project experience.
- Strong contractor and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience delivering outage planning improvements and best practice.
- Valid UK driving licence and willingness to travel as required.
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This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in planning and delivering major power generation outages, directly supporting plant availability, reliability, safety, and business continuity.
- You will work alongside experienced engineering teams and major contractors, with structured development opportunities to build your technical, planning, and project management skills.
- The role offers a competitive salary, pension, bonus, private medical insurance, incentive plan, and 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
Ready to Apply?
If you are an experienced Outage Planning Engineer with a background in outage scheduling, maintenance planning, or major shutdowns, we want to hear from you.
Apply today and play a key role in delivering safe, efficient, and reliable power generation outages.
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We try to respond to all applicants; however, due to high application volumes, this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 14 days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Company Information
This permanent vacancy is being advertised by Rullion Ltd.
Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a wide range of clients, from major global organisations to innovative SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is built on credibility, honesty, and long-term relationships.
Rullion specialises in delivering talent consultancy solutions across multiple sectors and is committed to championing diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities for all employees and applicants.
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