Maintenance Planner

Elevation Recruitment Group are working alongside a heavy industry manufacturing business to recruit a Maintenance Planner to join their facility near Scunthorpe.

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager the Maintenance Planner will provide support for the maintenance team by effectively planning/scheduling work orders, overseeing inventory and coordinating contractors.

Our client is looking for someone with a passion for maintenance and the drive to improve maintenance operations.

Other duties of the Maintenance Planner include:

• Ensure that the maintenance team have the tools and resources to complete works
• Raise purchase orders and process invoice queries on behalf of the maintenance team
• Identify, schedule and coordinate contractors.
• Generate and issue permits to work
• Oversee spare parts inventory
• Challenge suppliers on cost and quality to ensure the best value for money
• Plan/schedule maintenance activities in the CMMS whilst communicating to stakeholders
• Identify labour requirements and perform resource levelling for work orders
• Create, close off and assign work orders in CMMS
• Process corrective maintenance work requests
• Inspect completed work orders for adherence to expected standards
• Use CMMS/Excel and Microsoft programs to monitor achievement to schedule
• Train and coach users on site CMMS
• Select PM/Pdm/CBM/RTF strategies as appropriate to prevent failure causes and eliminate failure modes
• Conduct continuous improvement activities such as root cause analysis to improve maintenance performance and best practices

We are keen to speak with Maintenance Planners with the following skills/experience:

• NVQ3 Mechanical or Electrical maintenance
• HNC Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Previous maintenance planning/coordinating or supervisory experience.
• Computer literate and comfortable using Microsoft programs and CMMS programs.
• An understanding of root cause analysis and problem-solving

Apply now or for a further discussion about this Maintenance Planner role,please contact Kerry Hill