Maintenance Planner

SF Partners; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

SF Recruitment is seeking an experienced Maintenance Planner to join a Birmingham-based manufacturing business in the West Midlands. The role focuses on developing and maintaining the PPM programme, planning work orders, and ensuring resources are available to minimise production disruption.

You will coordinate with engineering, production, and stores, review completed work orders, and drive improvements using reliability data. A CMMS background and strong analytical skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance planning or coordination.
• Background in engineering or manufacturing.
• Experience with CMMS / maintenance management systems.
• Good understanding of PPM and reactive maintenance environments.
• Experience planning labour, parts, and resources for maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the site's Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programme.
• Review and optimise planned maintenance activities based on performance and OEM recommendations.
• Plan and schedule maintenance work orders.
• Ensure labour, tooling, permits, contractors and spares are available before work is released.
• Coordinate with engineering, production, stores and external contractors to minimise disruption.
• Work with Stores to ensure critical spares and specialist tooling are available.
• Review completed work orders and feedback to improve PM frequencies and plans.
• Monitor PPM compliance, schedule adherence, backlog and overdue orders.
• Support RCA by identifying recurring equipment failures.
• Drive continuous improvement through maintenance data and reliability analysis.
• Maintain asset information including BOMs and equipment hierarchies.
• Produce and analyse maintenance KPIs to improve asset reliability.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Engineering planning

Maintenance coordination

CMMS experience

Data & reliability analysis

Education

Engineering qualification

Tools

CMMS

Spreadsheets

Databases

Job description

Maintenance Planner

Up to £47,000 P/a

West Midlands

7am - 4pm Mon - Thu, 7am - 1pm Fri

SF Recruitment are recruiting for an experienced Maintenance Planner to join an established manufacturing business based in Birmingham.

The Role

• Developing and maintaining the site's Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programme.
• Creating, reviewing and optimising planned maintenance activities based on equipment performance, failure history and OEM recommendations.
• Planning and scheduling maintenance work orders.
• Ensuring labour, tooling, permits, contractors and spare parts are available before planned work is released.
• Coordinating with engineering, production, stores and external contractors to minimise disruption to manufacturing.
• Working closely with Stores to ensure critical spares, consumables and specialist tooling are available.
• Reviewing completed work orders and using feedback to improve PM frequencies and job plans.
• Monitoring PPM compliance, schedule adherence, maintenance backlog and overdue work orders.
• Supporting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) by identifying recurring equipment failures.
• Driving continuous improvement through maintenance data and reliability analysis.
• Maintaining accurate asset information, including BOMs, equipment hierarchies, task lists and technical documentation.
• Producing and analysing maintenance KPIs and identifying opportunities to improve asset reliability and maintenance performance.

The position will have responsibility for maintaining and developing the site's Shire Maintenance Management system, linking this with the Stores Management System across the facility.

The Ideal Candidate

• Previous experience within maintenance planning, engineering planning or maintenance coordination.
• A background within engineering or manufacturing.
• Experience working with CMMS / maintenance management systems.
• Good understanding of PPM and reactive maintenance environments.
• Experience planning engineering labour, parts, contractors and resources.
• Strong IT skills, including spreadsheets and databases.
• Good numerical and analytical ability.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under pressure.

An engineering qualification or previous hands-on maintenance background would be advantageous but is not essential.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Maintenance Planner, Engineering Planner, Maintenance Coordinator, CMMS Planner or Engineering Coordinator looking to join an established manufacturing environment and play a key role in improving maintenance performance and asset reliability.