Maintenance Planner

Join a market-leading food manufacturer in a newly created Maintenance Planner role with excellent career growth and development opportunities.

The Company

Our client is a market-leading food manufacturing business performing exceptionally well and continuing to experience strong growth. As a result, a newly created Maintenance Planner position has become available, offering an excellent opportunity to join a successful business at an exciting stage of its growth. With a strong focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence, this role provides plenty of scope to develop your skills, contribute to meaningful improvements and progress your career over the longer term.

The Role

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for developing and executing effective maintenance plans, improving asset reliability and ensuring maintenance activities are aligned with operational requirements. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Planning, scheduling and coordinating weekly maintenance activities through the CMMS to maximise equipment availability and minimise unplanned downtime.
• Driving continuous improvement across maintenance systems, processes and strategies to enhance asset performance and reliability.
• Preparing, coordinating and project managing major plant shutdowns, ensuring resources, materials and maintenance activities are effectively planned and executed.
• Working closely with maintenance trades, production teams and other key stakeholders to ensure preventative maintenance activities are completed safely, efficiently and within agreed timeframes.
• Developing and improving long-term maintenance plans and preventative maintenance strategies to support asset lifecycle management.
• Monitoring maintenance performance metrics and providing greater visibility of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), equipment reliability and maintenance efficiency.
• Identifying opportunities to reduce reactive maintenance, improve work order management and establish a more proactive, data-driven maintenance environment.

Your Background
To be successful in this role, you will ideally possess:

• A Mechanical or Electrical trade qualification, or a relevant engineering qualification supported by strong maintenance planning experience.
• Demonstrated experience in a Maintenance Planner role within a large-scale food, pharmaceutical, packaging or similarly complex manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience using and optimising a CMMS, ideally MEX, Maximo or SAP, to improve maintenance planning, scheduling and reporting.
• A strong track record of developing and implementing preventative maintenance programs and improving the balance between planned and reactive maintenance.
• The ability to engage effectively with maintenance trades, production teams and management to drive accountability and ensure maintenance activities are delivered as planned.
• A proactive, continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability, reduce downtime and optimise maintenance performance.

The Offer

This is an excellent opportunity to join a recognised market leader in the food manufacturing sector at a time of continued growth and investment in operational excellence. You will play a pivotal role in strengthening maintenance planning capabilities, improving asset reliability and driving meaningful improvements across the site.
For an experienced Maintenance Planner looking to make a tangible impact within a complex manufacturing environment, this role offers the opportunity to take ownership of key initiatives and contribute directly to the site’s long-term operational performance.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Maurice Tranchina at Blackbook Executive on (*************.