At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and improve maintenance planning while coaching teams for technical excellence.
- Company: Top Employer for 14 years, committed to wellbeing and career growth.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonuses, health cover, gym discounts, and electric car schemes.
- Other info: Inclusive workplace celebrating individuality and supporting diverse backgrounds.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic environment with continuous improvement opportunities.
- Qualifications: Maintenance training background and strong organisational and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Overview
Why Join Us?
We offer a competitive salary, bonus, and a wide range of benefits—from critical illness cover and discounted gym memberships to enhanced parental leave and electric car schemes.
Our commitment to wellbeing and career growth makes us a Top Employer for 14 years running.
The line maintenance lead and planner is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling and Breakdown Elimination Daily Management Systems for their area.
They coach line teams to strengthen technical capabilities and ensure alignment with other progressive maintenance systems.
Responsibilities
- Participate in Daily Direction Setting (DDS) meetings, report previous‑day results, and support execution of the daily plan.
- Maintain an accurate work order backlog and manage planned maintenance using the SIMPTWW framework (Safety, Information, Materials, People, Tools, Where and When).
- Review completed work daily, adjust schedules as needed, and coordinate planned stops with line and process leads.
- Lead weekly and monthly maintenance planning aligned with the annual maintenance strategy.
- Track maintenance KPIs, identify performance gaps, and elevate issues when required.
- Drive corrective actions across breakdown elimination, planning, Autonomous Maintenance, cost control, and spare‑parts usage.
- Identify improvement opportunities, define loss‑reduction themes, and manage related action plans.
- Lead continuous improvement efforts, including equipment design changes, change management, and documentation updates.
- Support vendor acceptance testing, new equipment initiatives, and PM Pillar activities.
- Collaborate with Autonomous Maintenance (AM) teams, Progressime Maintenance (PM) resources, storeroom personnel, and site leadership.
Qualifications
- Maintenance training background with knowledge of Integrated Work Systems and high‑performance work environments.
- Strong organizational, technical, and priority‑setting skills.
- Effective communication, coaching, and training abilities.
- Practical equipment‑handling and tool‑use skills.
- Proficiency in Autonomous Maintenance steps 0–4, including work point analysis and line transformation understanding.
- Knowledge of Progressive Maintenance steps 1–4 and structured problem‑solving methods.
- Completion of Maintenance Planning & Scheduling and Breakdown Elimination workshops.
- Familiarity with maintenance information systems, storeroom operations, visual standards, and basic computer tools.
- A Space to be You
We celebrate individuality and are committed to building an inclusive workplace.
Our Employee Resource Groups help embed inclusion into our culture, ensuring everyone feels valued and heard.
Equal Opportunities
We’re an equal opportunity employer, committed to the Equality Act 2010.
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide any necessary adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.
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