Engineering Scheduler: Flexible 40-Hour Maintenance Planner

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

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.