EMEA Maintenance Planning & Reliability Lead

Ball Corporation; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ball Corporation is seeking a Maintenance Planning & Execution professional to lead standardized maintenance planning across the EMEA region from Milton Keynes. The role interfaces with plant engineering, regional leadership and global teams to improve reliability, compliance and cost control.

Responsibilities include coordinating 12-week planning windows, enhancing CMMS/SFOL use, producing regional scorecards and driving RCA-based improvements.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in process engineering, maintenance, process optimisation and spare-parts management.
• Practical experience with maintenance planning, scheduling, CMMS/SFOL, PM compliance, equipment inspection and maintenance-event execution.
• University degree in Engineering-related discipline or NVQ Level 6 preferred.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Experience in industrial process analysis, continuous improvement, structured problem solving and RCA.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance planning and execution standardisation across EMEA, including annual plans, weekly planning routines and major maintenance-event preparation from 12 weeks out.
• Support BOE Maintenance deployment by maintaining regional progress visibility, reviewing plant evidence, coaching sites on templates and criteria, and supporting assessment readiness.
• Standardise and improve CMMS/SFOL use for procedures, orders, requests, interventions, reporting and traceability.
• Prepare and update the monthly regional maintenance scorecard, validate plant commentary, monitor PM compliance and track corrective actions for focus plants.
• Coordinate breakdown review and RCA support, ensuring problem statements, root-cause logic, corrective actions, shared learning and implications for standards, spares, procedures or training.
• Promote best maintenance practices, lean tools, engineered solutions and consistent post-maintenance reviews to build a world-class maintenance programme.
• Provide practical plant support through check-ins, site visits, management summaries, tracker updates, action logs and escalation of unresolved risks.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

University degree in Engineering-related discipline or NVQ Level 6

Tools

CMMS/SFOL

Job description

Ball Corporation is seeking a Maintenance Planning & Execution professional to lead standardized maintenance planning across the EMEA region from Milton Keynes. The role interfaces with plant engineering, regional leadership and global teams to improve reliability, compliance and cost control.

Responsibilities include coordinating 12-week planning windows, enhancing CMMS/SFOL use, producing regional scorecards and driving RCA-based improvements.