Engineering Planner

Jonathan Lee; Worcester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Jonathan Lee in Worcester is looking for an Engineering Planner and Stores Administrator to join the site engineering team. This role supports maintenance planning, spare parts availability, and data-driven decision making to keep downtime to a minimum.

You will coordinate maintenance work, manage stock records, apply 5S principles, and contribute to KPI reporting. The ideal candidate has experience in engineering or maintenance settings and is proficient with Microsoft Office, SAP and Ariba.

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering or maintenance environments with planning or stores support.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; SAP and Ariba experience preferred.
• Strong organisational and multitasking capabilities.
• Excellent communication to influence across teams.
• Comfort with data analysis and trend reporting.

Responsibilities

• Review and refine maintenance schedules to create an effective plan for planned work.
• Coordinate maintenance request reviews and allocate tasks with timely feedback.
• Develop and maintain robust spares stock management processes.
• Apply 5S principles to improve stock visibility.
• Support performance reporting using KPIs and trend analysis.
• Manage maintenance spend requests with pre-authorisation and proper allocation.

Skills

Strong communication

Organisation & multitasking

Data analysis

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Microsoft Office

SAP

Ariba

Job description

A growing food manufacturer are seeking a Engineering Planner and Stores Administrator, to join their engineering team. In this non-technical, highly collaborative position within the engineering and maintenance sector, you'll help keep maintenance work moving smoothly, improve spare parts availability, and support better decision-making through clear reporting and continuous improvement.

What You Will Do:

• Review and refine PPM schedules and regimes to create an effective maintenance plan for planned work.
• Coordinate maintenance request reviews, ensuring tasks are prioritised, scheduled, and allocated with timely feedback to request originators.
• Develop and maintain robust spares stock management processes, including accurate records of quantities and value.
• Apply 5S principles to improve stock visibility, enabling easy put-away and quick retrieval of critical items.
• Support performance reporting using KPIs such as analysing maintenance and inventory trends to drive improvements.
• Manage maintenance spend requests by raising and tracking requests, ensuring pre-authorisation and accurate allocation to revenue or capital spend.

What You Will Bring:

• Proven experience in engineering or maintenance environments, ideally supporting maintenance planning or stores functions.
• Strong confidence using Microsoft Office, plus experience with systems such as SAP and Ariba (training support will be provided where needed).
• Excellent organisation and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong communication skills to influence across teams, including maintenance, production, supply chain, and stakeholders at different levels.
• A data-minded approach, comfortable working with figures and using analysis to spot trends and recommend improvements.

This Engineering Planner and Stores Administrator role plays a vital part in optimising planned maintenance activity and keeping downtime as low as possible. By strengthening spare parts availability, improving maintenance planning quality, and delivering clear performance data, this company can support reliable bakery product operations and continuous operational improvement across the site.

Location:

This Engineering Planner and Stores Administrator role is based at the site in Worcester, with the day-to-day work centred on maintenance planning and stores support.