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Purpose
The Maintenance Planner is a key role within the maintenance team to support the safe operation of assets, plant productivity and reliability as the Maintenance Planner you will report directly to the Maintenance Manager and work closely with the Maintenance team, engineering team, scheduler, procurement and approved vendors. It will be essential to establish and maintain a healthy working relationship with all parties.
This role is key to delivering and maintaining all site safety standards throughout assets, ensuring site and industry regulations are followed allowing to operate as a top tier COMAH Site
Meeting regulatory and customer quality requirements relating to ISO9001, ISO14001 and cGMP as well as the requirements of cross contamination prevention. Deliver maintenance plans, ultimately ensuring manufacturing performance.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities
Key Accountabilities
The main duties (not limited to) of this role are to ensure that Health, Safety and Environmental standards are maintained throughout the planning and delivery of all work on assets, taking full responsibility to ensuring breakdowns, PMs, Compliance work, site regulatory work and defects are planned in accordance with industry standards, EHS regulations and completed in a timely manner.
Daily activities for the maintenance planner include but no limited to
Encourage a positive and a safety-first mentality throughout the business
Investigation and inspection of work orders raised through the CMMS. Engage with the engineering team to determine the appropriate course of action.
Create a detailed work pack complied with estimated labor hours, bill of material, job method sheet (JMS), P&ID’s, test method sheets, procedures and equipment location.
Engage with the maintenance supervisors to develop task specific RAMS for all planned work on assets
Identify and provide any external labor requirements and engage with approved sub-contractors. Ensure all supporting documents are submitted in a timely manner and obtain an accurate cost estimates, seek the opportunity to affect cost saving where possible.
Identify required material, check stock inventory and external suppliers as required.
Create a detailed plan to ensure correct information is obtained for WCP.
Update CMMS, manage the status of all work orders. Actively manage backlog to reduce work orders. Contribute planning progress to produce an accurate weekly KPI in line with the team and business requirements.
Take ownership of creating PRs through the CMMS and following through to completion.
The ability to read and understand engineering drawing / P&IDs loop check sheets, wiring diagrams.
Support the Maintenance manager’s in setting the budget for the next financial year.
Work closely with the maintenance scheduler to create a detailed weekly schedule and optimize site resource
Assist and develop preventative maintenance plans. Adjusting and update and PMs in the CMMS as required
Assist with and identify spare and replacement equipment.
SHEQ Management
Ensuring that Health, Safety and Environmental standards are maintained throughout the planning delivery of work.
Promote a positive safety culture throughout the maintenance team
Safety – Ensure work is carried out safely and as per company guidelines.
Quality – Ensure work is carried out to industry standards and OEM recommendations to ultimately reducing equipment down time increasing equipment performance.
Report any accidents or near misses as required by our health and safety policy.
Report improvements and “good practices” which the team have demonstrated.
Core Skills/
Competencies
Time served craftsman with around 5 years’ experience post apprenticeship. Predominantly with an instrument or electrical trade. Organisational skills – ability to prioritise work, able to work alone and as a team, motivated to progress work packs right through to completion, able to manage their own time and ensure maximum productivity is achieved. Situational awareness to ensure that maintenance opportunities arising from outages or breakdowns are used to the advantage of the maintenance team (routines and compliance work), project planning
Team Building & Incentive
Able to build a working relationship work all departments.
Maintenance KPIs such as planned maintenance compliance, safety critical maintenance/defects close out, right first time, planning accuracy
Communication
Communicate and coordinate with production related departments.
Able to manage, direct and receive instruction based on site priority.
Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications (word, excel, outlook, SharePoint)
Ability to build a good working relationship with all departments within the business and external suppliers
Confidentiality
Must have an understanding of responsible business practice and the importance of confidentiality.
Key Interactions
Direction from
Head of Reliability and Maintenance
Maintenance Manager
Peers
Mechanical Planner
E&I Supervisor
Mechanical Supervisor
Maintenance Scheduler
Mentoring potential
All peers.
Skills & Qualifications
Education
Essential
HNC Instrument or Electrical engineering or equivalent
NVQ level 3 or equivalent
Timed server instrument or electrical apprenticeship will and minimum of 5 years post apprenticeship
Desirable
IOSH working safely
Previous planning experience
Experience working on a Top Teir COMAH site
Key Skills
Work Experience
Five years’ experience post apprenticeship.
Preference
Working on a COMAH chemical processing site or similar