Maintenance Planner

ALSTOM Gruppe; East Staffordshire; On-site; GBP 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in transportation is seeking a Maintenance Planner to develop and optimize maintenance plans. This role involves ensuring compliance with quality standards and coordinating activities with various teams to maximize fleet availability. Candidates should demonstrate knowledge in fleet maintenance planning and have good communication skills. The position offers a dynamic work environment with competitive benefits and opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Award-winning learning and development

Dynamic reward package

Flexible benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay

Qualifications

• Passion and attitude valued over experience.
• No specific degree required, but feedback and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize maintenance plans for safe and cost-effective operations.
• Coordinate daily maintenance plans to align with operational priorities.
• Monitor maintenance plans to identify potential delays or risks.

Skills

Knowledge of Fleet Maintenance Planning

Experience in a Service Site or Production environment

Good communication and organisational skills

Tools

SAP GSI

Job description

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Maintenance Planner

Date: 10 Sept 2025

Location: Barton-Under-Needwood, STS, GB

Company: Alstom

Location: Central Rivers Depot, DE13

Appointment Basis: Permanent. Monday - Friday. Start Date February 2026.

Apply by: 24th September

Salary + Benefits: £45,664.24

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Your future role

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing, coordinating, and optimising maintenance plans to ensure the safe, reliable, and cost-effective operation of Alstom’s rolling stock. This role plays a critical part in supporting operational performance by translating maintenance strategies into executable work plans, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards.

The Maintenance Planner collaborates closely with engineering, operations, and supply chain teams to align maintenance activities with fleet availability targets and long-term asset management objectives.

We’ll look to you for:

• Provide up to date information on fleet status to internal and external customers
• Ensure real time customer support and forward-facing defects are efficiently managed.
• Develop and manage daily maintenance plans using the Maintenance Management System (SAP GSI), ensuring alignment with operational priorities.
• Lead daily interface meetings with the production team to confirm focus on the correct maintenance priorities and adherence to the agreed plan.
• Prioritise work at the Depot to meet train availability requirements.
• Coordinate and chair maintenance planning meetings, ensuring alignment with the approved Vehicle Maintenance Schedule to maximise train availability.
• Liaise with contractors and suppliers through regular (daily/weekly) meetings to review progress, address issues, and ensure adherence to the maintenance plan.
• Monitor and analyse maintenance plans to identify potential delays or risks, escalating issues to contractors, Service Delivery Managers, or line management as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in in SAP GSI, ensuring the system reflects real-time maintenance status across all assets.
• Input and manage data from multiple sources—including suppliers, contractors, production teams, and monitoring systems (e.g., Avis, Gotcha, Orbita)—to support accurate maintenance tracking and reporting.
• Perform data manipulation and analysis using internal and external reports to ensure all asset records are current and reflect true maintenance status.
• Escalate any blockers or deviations from plan to relevant stakeholders to enable timely resolution and maintain operational continuity.
• Managing configuration of assets within SAP GSI
• Optimize the depot usage
• Set, monitor and control planned maintenance including outstanding defects, reliability and safety checks

All about you

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Knowledge of Fleet Maintenance Planning
• Experience of working in a Service Site or Production environment.
• Good communication and organisational skills.

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.

You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our hybrid style of working
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)
• Up to 52 weeks full maternity and adoption pay
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
• A wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Equal opportunity statement:

Alstom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.

As a 'Disability Confident' employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.