Maintenance Planner

Job Title – Maintenance Planner

Location – Near Peterborough

Salary – £43,000

Shift – Monday – Friday (Days)

Do you thrive in a fast-moving environment? Enjoy working on high speed production equipment? We are recruiting for a Maintenance Planner to join a global FMCG company based near Peterborough The right Maintenance Planner will be looking to join an innovative FMCG site, who value teamwork, integrity and honesty.

The Maintenance Planner will:

• Ensure that business health, safety and environmental procedures and policies are followed.
• Develop and administer an effective CMMS System, as part of a business group initiative.
• Co-ordinate and oversee the engineering stores operation on site, ensuring the Asset Care Team has the necessary resources to maintain PM compliance and react to failures.
• Based on data and working with a variety of stakeholders optimise maintenance programmes for cost and time-utilisation.
• Track maintenance KPI data through CMMS to continually improve asset uptime, minimise cost and drive skill transfer to operational teams.
• Directly liaise with key stakeholders around the site regarding upcoming maintenance activities.
• Work with Asset Care team to ensure the company is meeting its legal obligations in line with equipment maintenance and compliance, while maintaining service records.
• Track and monitor costs and variances using on site accounting and maintenance software.
• Participate in meetings with operations and maintenance teams to review daily/weekly work issues and backlogs.

The Ideal Candidate will have:

• Proven experience in maintenance planning, ideally within an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintenance schedules.
• Experience coordinating contractors and managing external labour resources.
• Good knowledge of engineering principles, with an electrical bias desirable but not essential.
• Experience with risk assessments, RAMS and maintenance compliance requirements.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with a CMMS or maintenance management system.
• A proactive, practical approach and the ability to work effectively as part of an experienced engineering team.
• Experience within heavy industrial, agricultural, manufacturing or FMCG environments would be advantageous.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with CMMS systems. Experience with any system is considered.
• Knowledge of statutory maintenance and compliance requirements, including LOLER and PUWER.
• Electrical engineering experience or qualifications.
• Experience working with contractors and service-level agreements.
• Experience in a dusty, industrial or heavy manufacturing environment.
• Familiarity with maintenance performance measures such as downtime, reliability and OEE.

Benefits Include:

• Company pension contribution of up to 10% when you contribute 5%.
• Healthcare benefits.
• Holiday entitlement.
• Supportive and experienced engineering team.
• Opportunities for development and career progression.
• Employee wellbeing and support programmes.
• Life assurance and additional employee benefits.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please get in touch with us or apply below

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