Maintenance Planner

Salute; Gatwick; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cash plan

Pension

Private medical cover

Life assurance

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Salute is seeking a proactive Maintenance Planner to support our global data centre portfolio. You will coordinate Planned Preventative Maintenance, reactive tasks and small works, ensuring activities are efficient, compliant and aligned with customer expectations.

In this hybrid role based near Gatwick, you will schedule resources, manage maintenance through the CMMS, and maintain strong client relationships while driving process improvements and safety compliance.

Qualifications

• Essential administrative experience with FM or critical engineering environments.
• Proven ability to plan and organise maintenance activities in technical settings.
• Experience using CMMS/CAFM or similar systems is desirable.
• Confident liaising with third-party suppliers and subcontractors to support service delivery.
• Strong customer focus with excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), reactive tasks and small works.
• Schedule resources and manage work orders through the CMMS.
• Produce documentation and KPI reports; liaise with suppliers and clients.
• Support continuous improvement of processes and ensure safety compliance.

Skills

Administrative experience

Facilities Management exposure

Engineering maintenance planning

CMMS/CAFM experience

Supplier liaison

Customer service

Communication skills

Workload management

Team collaboration

Tools

CMMS

CAFM

Job description

Across the data center industry – from deployment, through operations and maintenance, to decommissioning – Salute is the industry leader of delivering global data centre services executed with precision.

We are seeking a proactive Maintenance Planner to support the delivery of best-in-class service across our global portfolio of 180+ data centre and critical environment contracts. Our Operational Services team provides full lifecycle support for critical assets - from planned and preventative maintenance to 24/7 emergency response, helpdesk and remote monitoring.

In this role, you will coordinate Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), reactive tasks and small works, ensuring all activities are delivered efficiently, compliantly, and in line with customer expectations. You will work closely with Technical and Operational teams to schedule resources, manage work orders through the CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System), produce documentation, liaise with suppliers and subcontractors, and maintain strong client relationships.

We’re looking for someone highly organised, customer-focused and confident in managing multiple tasks - from raising purchase orders to producing service reports and supporting KPI tracking. You’ll play a key part in improving processes, enhancing service delivery, and ensuring contractual and safety compliance.

If you’re driven by precision, collaboration and continuous improvement, and want to help shape high-performance service delivery in critical environments, we’d love to hear from you.

What we’re looking for

• Essential administrative experience, with exposure to Facilities Management or Critical Engineering environments considered highly desirable.
• Proven ability to plan and organise engineering maintenance activities, ideally within a critical or technical setting.
• Experience using CMMS, CAFM or similar maintenance planning systems is desirable.
• Confident in liaising with third-party suppliers and subcontractors to support service delivery.
• Strong contributor to team and departmental performance, with a keen customer focus.
• Excellent customer service and relationship-building skills, with a professional and confidential approach.
• Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with colleagues at all levels.
• Able to manage a varied workload, balancing competing priorities and responding quickly to urgent issues.
• Highly organised, methodical, and detail-oriented.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
• A proactive approach to learning, with a willingness to undertake further training for ongoing professional development.

What We Offer

• Structured Career Growth– Opportunities to develop your skills and advance within a growing international company.
• Dynamic Work Environment– Be part of a global team in the fast-paced data centre industry.
• Impactful Work– Play a key role in delivering innovative solutions for critical infrastructure.
• Competitive Salary & Benefits– including health cash plan, life assurance, pension and other flexible benefits.

What We Offer:

• Structured Career Growth – Opportunities to develop your skills and advance within a growing international company.
• Dynamic Work Environment – Be part of a global team in the fast-paced data center industry.
• Impactful Work – Play a key role in ensuring our engineers receive the right training to succeed.
• Competitive Salary & Benefits – Your compensation will reflect your expertise and contributions. Other benefitsoffered include: generous annual leave allowance, private medical cover, health cash plan, life assurance, pension and other flexible benefits.

Other information:

The role is a full-time hybrid-based position and your base salary will be commensurate with experience but is expected to be highly competitive. The opportunity is located in Gatwick, and will include business travel as needed to meet business demands but will likely be nominal.

At Salute, we don’t have employees. We have team members. It’s our culture, and it’s a significant driver of the success we’re able to deliver for our clients. This team-oriented culture is defined by transparent communication, collaborative development and deployment of procedures and best practices, a customer service mindset both internally and externally, and a strong commitment to safety and responsibility.

In addition to the opportunity to work in a great team and earn a competitive salary - you’ll gain access to cutting-edge industry training that aims to enhance your skills and support your future development.

Please note that we would ideally like the new joiner to be office-based for the first few months to help them get up to speed with our processes and build strong working relationships.