Engineering Planner in London

We are looking for an Engineering Planner to join our friendly proactive team. The successful candidate will bring great communication skills to manage multiple stakeholders. This role is Monday to Friday, 8am-4pm, based in Stowmarket.

A little bit about us: Muntons is a global supplier to the food and drinks industry that has been producing the highest-quality malt and malted ingredients for over 100 years. Our customers range from multinational food and beverage producers to start-ups and small independent craft brewers and distillers. We are proud of our Suffolk heritage and team, trusting all our people to bring ideas and positive change to our business.

Key responsibilities for a Maintenance Engineering Planner:

• CMMS Ownership & Governance: Owning, developing, and improving the site's CMMS to ensure high-quality data, effective workflows, and world-class maintenance performance.
• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling: Leading the site's engineering planning and scheduling processes to ensure resources, materials, and work priorities are aligned for safe and efficient execution.
• Work Instructions & Engineering Documentation: Maintaining, authoring, and controlling digital work instructions, job plans, SOPs, and maintenance task lists to ensure consistency, compliance, and technical accuracy.
• Maintenance Work Process Control: Ensuring that all maintenance workflows from request to completion are standardised, followed, and continuously improved.
• Reliability & Performance Improvement: Supporting reliability engineering through analysis of maintenance data, identifying trends, and helping drive equipment performance improvements.
• Spare Parts & Stores Integration: Liaising with on-site stores team to ensure parts availability and accuracy of inventory.
• Training & Stakeholder Support: Acting as the site expert for CMMS use, planning processes, and engineering documentation standards, providing training and frontline support.
• Compliance & Audit Support: Maintaining audit-ready engineering data and documentation, ensuring full compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Statutory Control: Provide administrative control of statutory maintenance e.g., LEV, LOLER and Pressure Vessels.

Key skills required:

• Proficient in using Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) e.g., Agility, SAP PM, Shire.
• Experience in maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Strong analytical ability to interpret maintenance data.
• Ability to write clear, accurate work instructions and job plans.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office including Outlook/Excel.
• Great communication skills.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to coach others and influence best practice behaviours.
• Compliance of quality, health, safety and the environment.
• Understanding and working knowledge of contractor management.
• Demonstrate flexibility to ensure continuous cover within the department whilst effectively managing your own workload.

Behaviours that are important to Muntons:

• Team Collaboration: Actively contributes to team working and cooperates with others, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Respectful and Welcoming: Promotes a welcoming environment, treating everyone equally, fairly, and with respect.
• Proactive and Positive Attitude: Exhibits a proactive, positive, and can-do attitude towards tasks and challenges.
• Health & Safety: Follows all health and safety policies, reporting hazards, and ensuring a safe working environment for themselves and others.

In this role, Muntons will provide:

• Competitive rate of pay, reviewed annually.
• Company pension contribution at 5%.
• Health Cash Plan with Reward Scheme and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Life Assurance.
• Company profit-based bonus.
• Free car parking.
• myStaffShop membership.