Maintenance Planner

KHR - Recruitment Specialists; West Midlands Combined Authority; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Maintenance Planner in Birmingham to coordinate site maintenance planning and ensure efficient maintenance activities. Candidates should have strong scheduling skills, familiarity with SAP systems, and previous experience in a similar role. This position offers competitive salary and benefits, working Monday to Friday.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Benefits

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role to a Maintenance Planner.
• Experience within engineering or manufacturing industries (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Coordinate maintenance plans and scheduled maintenance activities.
• Allocate parts and assist with production work order management.
• Plan day-to-day maintenance activities and shutdown coordination.
• Control and manage work backlogs.

Skills

Maintenance scheduling and planning skills

Familiarity with SAP PM/BI/MRS/MM

Education

Minimum 5 GCSEs

Job description

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Role: Maintenance Planner (Manufacturing)
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Hours: 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Monday-Friday

Our client is a well-established manufacturer with a strong focus on continuous improvement, reliability, and health/safety. They foster a culture that values the development of staff and processes.

As a Maintenance Planner, you will play a crucial role in coordinating site maintenance planning to ensure a cost-effective, reliability-centred, and efficient maintenance work order system. Working closely with other departments, you will contribute to the smooth operation of the facility by creating and updating scheduled maintenance activities, managing work backlogs, and supporting the use of SAP PM/BI/MRS/MM for structured maintenance plans and historical documentation.

Maintenance Planner Duties and Responsibilities:

– Coordinate agreed maintenance plans and create and update scheduled maintenance activities
– Allocate parts and materials, and assist with production work order generation and management
– Plan and organise day-to-day maintenance activities and shutdown coordination
– Control and populate the engineering plan, and manage work backlogs
– Support the use of SAP PM/BI/MRS/MM for structured maintenance plans and historical documentation
– Schedule workload for Multiskilled Shift Technicians and review SAP Plant Maintenance modules
– Act as a site contact for contract labour and ensure equipment is maintained to a high standard
– Carry out risk assessments, attend/organise courses and meetings, and raise and manage work orders

The ideal candidate:

– Previous experience in a similar role to a Maintenance Planner
– Familiarity with SAP PM/BI/MRS/MM
– Strong maintenance scheduling and planning skills
– Experience within engineering or manufacturing industries (desirable)
– Minimum 5 GCSEs

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