The Maintenance Planner is responsible for the delivery of work orders across the Manufacturing and Fulfilment site. Working with the Maintenance and operations teams, you will lead the planning & scheduling process to ensure tasks are prioritized accordingly within the allocated operational windows. You will evolve the current processes to maximize availability of the assets while also identifying opportunities to optimize maintenance practices. A key part of the role will be the management of inventory through the eMaint system. You will maximize stock availability through criticality assessments and drive improvements in costs through the analysis of KPI data.
Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of engineering KPIs through effective planning and execution with the engineering teams.
- Effective daily, weekly and monthly planning, based on compliance within the existing schedule and also management of the preventative work order backlog to ensure 100% compliance is achieved and risks removed.
- Continuously review the planning model for ways to further optimize and improve delivery.
- Support the delivery of engineering excellence growth in responsible categories.
- Superuser for eMaint system and asset management, aligning with group standards.
- Manage and support colleagues on all work orders within eMaint; ensure proper creation, planning, update and closure of work orders.
- Train, develop and coach end users (engineers/operations), develop training material and drive expectations on efficient and accurate data entry.
- Manage and develop robust third‑party contracts to deliver external compliance for non‑statutory compliance for site facilities.
- Manage Permit to Works for tasks within your competence.
- Alignment with group roll out plan and standardization, innovate and evolve maintenance management, Standard Maintenance Procedures (SMP) and scheduling; and eMaint reports.
- Develop and publish Engineering metrics to the management team; interpret data and recommend findings.
- Support third‑party inventory management team to manage inventory and complete purchase orders as required.
- Build forecasted spend report and contribute to the development of annual budget projection.
Qualifications
- Experience working with maintenance planning systems either as a planner or an engineer/technician.
- Experience with stores and inventory management.
- Experience with CMMS, management, deployment and auditing.
- Excellent computer and communication skills.
- Continuous Improvement & Innovation will be at the heart of your work.
- 3 years+ experience planning, scheduling and auditing maintenance activities either as a maintenance planner or other engineering role.
THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.
