Operations and Maintenance Regional Planner

We are Lightsource bp – and we’re on a mission to become a global leader in onshore renewables, anchored by our proven track record in solar development.

For over a decade we’ve been actively working to diversify the way our world is powered with sustainable and responsible renewable power. We work to safely deliver affordable, reliable, large-scale onshore renewable and energy storage solutions to help the world decarbonise.

Our growing business is constantly innovating and investing to help drive the energy transition. Our people and projects are focused on supporting long-term sustainable growth and energy security.

Lightsource bp operates with five core values: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability, and Drive. We seek to attract and hire individuals who share our commitment to creating a safe workplace, uphold the highest standards of integrity, and demonstrate respect for colleagues, communities, and the environment. Our recruitment process promotes sustainability by valuing long-term growth and responsible practices, while seeking candidates with the drive to innovate and lead in the global energy transition. Together, these values shape how we engage, assess, and welcome talent to join us in delivering transformational solar power solutions worldwide. 

Lightsource bp was fully acquired by bp in 2024.

What you’ll do (the role)

Summary

Based in our Bath Office, The O&M Regional Planner plays a crucial role in efficiently scheduling and coordinating maintenance activities, ensuring alignment with available resources, planning strategies, and operational requirements while meeting client contractual expectations. A significant aspect of the role involves fostering and maintaining strong client relations and positive business-to-business connections with stakeholders.  This includes but not limited to asset management as well as the regional O&M managers.

Responsibilities of the Role

As an O&M Regional Planner, your daily responsibilities include however are not limited to:

• Planning work initiated through O&M contractual planned maintenance requirements, ensuring that the required resources are available, and work is carried out in line with maintenance plans, asset criticalities and any contract response times (where applicable).
• Determine and monitor labour capacity in order to develop future looking work plans to maximise resource utilisation.
• Provide dynamic decision making on reactive issues arising in the region/s.
• Corrective and preventative maintenance scheduling through the company’s systems.
• Day-to-day response to client queries within the assigned regions.
• Accountability for the region's scheduling daily, tracking the overall in month plan and adherences to this.
• Communication both written and verbally with internal and external stakeholders.
• Periodic travel to aligned regions to meet the teams and participate in regional meetings – requirement to present data to outline regions performance on planned and corrective maintenance activities.
• Annual production of the Preventative Maintenance plan for all solar farms within aligned region, ensuring to meet contractual obligations.
• Management, control, and fulfilment of the O&M maintenance plans.
• Management of the CMMS for activities such as creating work orders, quotations, and purchase orders.
• Organising contractor works within region – ensuring to update clients on progress of specific works/projects.
• Use and support the development of operation management systems and planning tools.
• Driving profitability on work orders.

Why you’ll make a great member of the team

Experience & Knowledge Required

• Proven experience in a similar role.
• Demonstrable experience in O&M business, including planning and quarterly planning.

Skills Required

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling: Ability to plan and schedule corrective and preventive maintenance activities aligned to contractual and operational requirements.
• Labour Capacity Management: Experience in determining and monitoring labour capacity for future work plans.
• Experience with EAMS/CMMS: Skilled in using Enterprise Asset Management Systems or similar for creating work orders, quotations, purchase orders, maintenance scheduling, and reporting.
• Procurement Knowledge: Some experience with procurement processes related to maintenance activities.
• Data Analysis: Strong analytical and numerical skills for planning, decision-making, and performance tracking.
• Use of Planning Tools & Systems: Proficiency with operation management and planning systems to develop and support maintenance plans.
• Microsoft Office Proficiency: Comfortable using Excel, Word, Outlook, and possibly PowerPoint for reporting and communication.

Education Required

• Planning background advantageous or similar electrical background.
• Any planning-related qualifications.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent would be advantageous.

Why you’ll want to work for us

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow, a place where your ideas and opinions matter.

Be you: We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

Be responsible: Our culture is driven by our core values – from operating safely to ensuring our projects are responsible. 

Be recognized: Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.

Be inspired: Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there’s a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. These include our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project, or volunteering on our VIBES committee to name a few.

Our core values: Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do. 

For further information on our career opportunities and life at Lightsource bp, please visit https://www.lightsourcebp.com/careers/