Specialist, Maintenance Planning & Execution (EMEA)

Overview

In this role you will develop and implement maintenance planning standards across EMEA plants, driving reliability and cost control. You collaborate with regional and global teams to standardise CMMS/SFOL usage, monitor PM compliance, and support RCA-driven improvements. You’ll translate data and plant insights into actionable plans, coaching sites and boosting overall maintenance discipline. This is a chance to shape a world-class maintenance program within a global packaging leader.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance planning and execution standardisation across EMEA with annual and weekly plans and major maintenance-event preparation
• Support BOE Maintenance deployment by tracking progress, reviewing plant evidence, coaching sites on templates, and assessing readiness
• Standardise CMMS/SFOL use for procedures, orders, requests, interventions, reporting and traceability, including applicability and scheduling
• Prepare and update the regional maintenance scorecard, validate commentary, monitor PM compliance, and track corrective actions
• Coordinate breakdown reviews and RCA support, ensuring proper problem statements, corrective actions, and shared learnings
• Promote best maintenance practices, lean tools, engineered solutions, and post-maintenance reviews
• Support regional reliability initiatives, including wellness-event tracking, rebuild visibility, asset monitoring, and targeted improvements
• Provide practical plant support via site visits, management summaries, tracker updates, action logs, and risk escalation
• Apply technical criteria, historical data, supplier information and studies to support inspections, spare-parts optimisation and maintenance decisions
• Reduce spare-parts inventory while preventing stockouts through data-driven analysis and supplier information
• Provide cross-functional support to maintain continuity of key workstreams during absences and travel

Key requirements

• Minimum 3 years in process engineering, maintenance, process optimization and spare-parts management
• Practical experience with maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS/SFOL, PM compliance, equipment inspection and maintenance-event execution
• University degree in Engineering-related discipline or NVQ Level 6 – preferred
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Experience in industrial process analysis, continuous improvement, structured problem solving and RCA
• Strong data-analysis, stakeholder-management and communication skills with coaching ability across multiple sites
• Willingness to travel (roughly 1 week per month; may be 2–3 trips/month)

• stakeholder-management
• communication
• coaching
• CMMS
• SFOL
• PM compliance

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