Engineering Scheduler

Biffa Group; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

The Engineering Scheduler at Biffa Group is responsible for distributing planned and corrective work to maintenance teams, ensuring continuity across engineering shifts. The role requires hands-on experience with maintenance activities and close collaboration with engineering leadership.

You will help maintain compliance with safety and environmental standards, manage PPM schedules and support continuous improvement initiatives within the engineering department.

Qualifications

• Be part of effective diagnosis of plant downtime events, ensuring repairs are safe, swiftly and economically.
• Deputise for department peers as required.
• Ability to manage contract labour and overtime (occasional out-of-hours).
• Qualified HNC/HND – with experience as a multi skilled/mechanical engineer.
• IOSH managing safely qualification.
• Competence with CMMS systems.

Responsibilities

• Help maintain the plant so it stays within Health, Safety and environmental standards (inc LOLER, PUWER, COSHH).
• Ensure all statutory and regulatory obligations are met and the annual maintenance calendar tracks inspection regimes.
• Develop and manage routine maintenance programs, review existing inspections for value adding.
• Report and communicate incidents as per incident reporting systems.
• Attend safety and maintenance meetings and roll out site TBT and safety briefs; ensure risk assessments and method statements are in place.
• Work with the compliance team to keep up to date with safety and environmental guidance and company policies.
• Ensure site stores are maintained, controlled and audited to improve standards.
• Prepare parts and equipment for on-site works.
• Assist review and improvement of PPMs and work activities.
• Frontline control of the site CMMS system in respect to PPM Scheduling.
• Engage with equipment suppliers and support desks for maintenance issues and planned works via OEM contractors.
• Ensure works are carried out through SOPs, RAs and using CMMS (Shire).
• Support in achieving maintenance KPI targets.
• Involve in continuous improvement initiatives for engineering.
• Project planning and delivery.
• Any other tasks as required by site management.

Skills

Downtime diagnosis

Labour management

Maintenance planning

Safety leadership

Problem solving

Education

HNC/HND in mechanical engineering

Tools

CMMS systems

Job description

Engineering Scheduler

Working Pattern: 40 hours per week, Mon-Fri 5am-2pm with flexibility

Salary: £47,613 per annum

The Engineering Scheduler is responsible for ensuring the continuity of planned and corrective work is distributed to the maintenance teams at Biffa BDR. Working closely with the Senior Team Leader, Engineering Planner and Engineering Manager (with links into operational supervisors), they will support in ensuring continuity in works is maintained between engineering shifts. Having ‘hands on’ / practical experience will help with site maintenance works and this role.

Key responsibilities:

• Help maintain the plant so it stays within the prescribed Health, Safety and environmental standards (inc LOLER, PUWER, COSHH).
• Ensure that all statutory and regulatory obligations are met and the annual maintenance calendar tracks inspection regimes.
• Develop and manage routine maintenance programs, carry out review of existing inspections for value adding.
• Report and communicate incidents as per the incident reporting systems.
• Attend safety and maintenance meetings as required, help roll out of site TBT and safety briefs and ensure that risk assessments and method statements are produced and in place for each activity .
• Work with the compliance team to keep up to date with any legislative changes to safety and environmental guidance and all relevant Company policies.
• Ensure site stores are maintained, controlled and audited with a vision to improve standards.
• The preparation of parts and equipment for on-site works.
• Assist the Engineering Maintenance Manager and the team in the review, possible improvement and development PPMs and work activities.
• Frontline control of the site CMMS system in respect to PPM Scheduling
• Engage with equipment suppliers and support ‘desks’ for maintenance issues, planned works via OEM contractors and improvements
• Ensure works are carried out through SOPs, RAs and utilising our CMMS system (Shire)
• Support in the accountability of ensuring maintenance KPI targets are achieved.
• integral involvement in continuous improvement initiatives for the engineering department .
• Project planning and delivery.
• Any other reasonable tasks and duties as required by site management.

Experience, Education & Qualifications:

Essential

• Be part of Effective diagnosis of plant downtime events, ensuring repairs are completed safely, swiftly, completely, and economically.
• Deputise for department peers as required.
• An ability to manage contract labour as required (there is ability for overtime etc for some out of normal working hours that might be required)
• Qualified HNC/HND – with experience as a multi skilled/ mechanical engineer
• IOSH managing safely
• Competence with CMMS system’s

Preferable

• Possible electrical experience (not essential)
• Management of multi-disciplined teams
• Process/Waste industry experience
• Continuous improvement – in house or external

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