Maintenance Planner

EMR; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Enhanced parental leave

Life assurance and critical illness

Wellbeing and 24/7 health support

Loans and savings plans

Cycle to work scheme

Training and development

Job summary

EMR is seeking an experienced Maintenance Planner to join the Liverpool site. You will coordinate and optimise maintenance across fixed and mobile plant, equipment, and facilities to improve uptime and ensure safety and compliance.

You will develop and maintain PPMS and CMMS systems, support planning strategies, track performance metrics, and work with cross‑functional teams to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven maintenance planning experience in a manufacturing or processing site.
• Experience with Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and CMMS platforms.
• Strong communication and organisational skills, able to work independently.
• Proactive, analytical mindset focused on continuous improvement.
• Flexible approach with ability to handle varied tasks.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and plan all maintenance activities across the site to minimise downtime and ensure safety compliance.
• Develop and improve CMMS to enhance scheduling, resource planning, and documentation.
• Support the Maintenance Manager with PPM strategies, shutdown planning and work orders.
• Track KPIs such as completed work orders, delays, breakdowns and costs.
• Communicate maintenance updates across departments and manage spares requirements.
• Liaise with Engineering Stores to ensure stock availability.

Skills

Maintenance planning experience

CMMS experience

PPM systems experience

Strong communication

Organisational skills

Analytical mindset

Problem-solving

Tools

CMMS

Job description

What we offer:

Everything must recycle. It’s what we stand for.

Together we turn today’s materials into tomorrow’s possibilities. Today’s old into tomorrow’s new. Used to useful. Waste into something worthwhile. You could be at the centre of change that will be felt for generations to come, keeping valuable resources in circulation and helping to make circular materials the standard for global industry.

Work this important deserves proper pay and proper benefits.

• Competitive pay rates and a bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus option to buy or sell
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Employee support - including life assurance and critical illness pay
• Wellbeing scheme - giving colleagues and dependents unlimited access to GPs and counselling, and cash back on health and wellbeing
• 24/7 anonymous health and wellbeing advice
• Financial support - including affordable loans, savings plans, advanced earned pay and education
• Money off shopping, utilities, entertainment and more
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Get stuck in but never get stuck – ongoing training and development plans tailored to how you want to progress

Applying to a new job is a big decision – even when the company you’re applying to has been voted a Great Place to Work for four years running and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation.

#INDHP

About Our Opportunity:

We're looking for an experienced Maintenance Planner to join our Engineering team at our Liverpool site. This is a key role responsible for coordinating and optimising maintenance activities across fixed and mobile plant, equipment, and facilities. You'll be instrumental in driving operational efficiency by developing and maintaining systems that support planned preventative maintenance (PPM), improving uptime, and ensuring legal and safety compliance.

This is a great opportunity to work in a fast-paced, hands-on manufacturing environment where continuous improvement, reliability, and safety are at the heart of everything we do.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Coordinating and planning all maintenance activities across the site to ensure minimal downtime and full compliance with H&S and engineering regulations.
• Developing and improving our Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to enhance scheduling, resource planning, and documentation.
• Supporting the Maintenance Manager and Assistant Manager with the execution of PPM strategies, shutdown planning, and work order management.
• Tracking and reporting key performance indicators including completed work orders, delays, breakdowns, and expenditures.
• Communicating effectively across departments to ensure machinery faults, spares requirements, and maintenance updates are shared promptly.
• Raising and monitoring purchase requisitions for spare parts and liaising with the Engineering Stores to ensure stock availability.
• Working closely with Operations and Engineering teams to identify and support opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Deputising for the Assistant Maintenance Manager or Stores & Purchasing Coordinator when required.
• Collaborating with external contractors and issuing permits to work as per company procedures.

About You

You’ll be an organised, hands‑on professional with solid experience in maintenance planning in a manufacturing or processing environment. You are proactive, technically minded, and thrive in a role that combines strategic planning with practical execution.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Proven maintenance planning experience, ideally in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Experience with Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) systems and CMMS platforms.
• Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines.
• A proactive and analytical mindset with a keen eye for problem‑solving and process improvement.
• A confident, approachable attitude with the ability to work cross‑functionally and build strong working relationships.
• Good attention to detail and document control practices.
• A flexible approach and willingness to take on varied tasks as needed.

You’ll also demonstrate behaviours that reflect our values:

• A strong sense of responsibility and work ethic.
• The drive to deliver high standards and continuous improvement.
• Confidence in decision‑making and learning from setbacks.
• Loyalty to the team and business, always willing to support others.

Ready to play a key role in the reliability and success of our site operations?

Who we are:

The products we’ll all need tomorrow depend on us making the most of today’s end‑of‑life metals, plastics and other materials.

Take a car at the end of its life - most people just see a…car at the end of its life.

We see steel, aluminium, copper, plastics, rubber, glass, parts, fluids, costs, risks, markets and – most importantly - possibilities.

Now, multiply that by thousands of cars – we recover, reuse and recycle all those valuable materials and put them back to work as low‑carbon materials for manufacturing, infrastructure, energy and transport.

And that’s just one thing we recycle. Add buildings, factories, ships, railways and industrial equipment. That’s all our hard work – the gritty, practical, commercial, difficult work our 4,000 global colleagues do every day.

Anything from a can to an aircraft carrier can become anything from a bicycle to a building and, at the same time, we help to avoid 19 million tonnes of carbon and 10 million tonnes of waste to landfill, protecting nature, resources and the next generation’s future.

“The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected.”

“I’m encouraged to keep a healthy work‑life balance so that I can be performing at my best.”

“I’ve been supported every step of the way in my career progression.”

‘‘EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work.”

Four years as a certified Great Place To Work is no small feat. Oh, and don’t forget one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation.

But we can do better. We’re aiming for a place in the top 60 companies in the UK – not for the accolade but for the improvement. A journey you should probably join us for.

If you want to be part of something bigger than yourself, have a role that really makes a difference and work with likeminded people towards the same purpose, this is the role for you.

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