Packaging Maintenance Planner – Hereford: Elevate Uptime

Heineken; Hereford; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual bonus

Pension (double‑matched)

32 days’ holiday

Life assurance

Private Medical Insurance

Free ciders and beers

Wellbeing support

Development opportunities

Colleague Networks

Job summary

Hereford-based Maintenance Planner in Packaging within Heineken’s operations will develop, coordinate and monitor engineering maintenance plans to keep packaging lines running efficiently and in compliance with standards. You will drive preventive and corrective maintenance, support shutdowns and track costs and KPIs across the site.

You will coordinate TPM initiatives, 5S, RCA cycles, and continuous improvement efforts, while collaborating with engineers, stores, and external contractors to

Qualifications

• Time served as an engineer with a recognised qualification such as an apprenticeship, HNC/HND or degree ideally with a formal safety qualification (IOSH/NEBOSH).
• 3–4 years' experience using CMMS (preferably SAP PM) in an engineering or FMCG environment.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Prior exposure to process/packaging operations and execution of continuous improvement methods such as LEAN, TPM or general CI Methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Creating and communicating weekly maintenance schedules for APM days (engineering and CILT days) and other maintenance windows in packaging based off line priorities to improve unplanned downtime through preventive and corrective maintenance
• Planning and executing annual shutdown plans to reduce packaging unplanned downtime, utilising the whole packaging engineering team and contractors to do so
• Daily and weekly monitoring and reporting of unplanned downtime trends to better schedule maintenance work based off priorities
• Support significant breakdowns by coordinating planning, resources, contractors, parts and follow‑up work as required
• Supporting TPM deployment and continuous improvement initiatives, including 5S, AM (steps 0–5), RCFAs, centrelining and Kaizens
• Monitoring and reporting repair and maintenance costs against budget, highlighting risks and opportunities to Maintenance Managers
• Tracking and reporting KPIs such as APM day effectiveness and CMMS (SAP) usage to support performance targets and audits
• Collaborating with site stakeholders and external contractors to resolve maintenance planning obstacles and ensure effective execution of plans
• Optimising spare parts and repairable stock management, working with our onsite stores team, other Heineken sites and the maintenance HUB to reduce inventory costs
• Be the subject matter expert for our CMMS system (SAP but will move to Maximo)

Skills

Engineering background

CMMS SAP PM

Strong planning

LEAN/TPM CI

Education

Apprenticeship/HNC/HND or degree

IOSH/NEBOSH safety qualification

Tools

SAP PM

Maximo

Job description

Hereford-based Maintenance Planner in Packaging within Heineken’s operations will develop, coordinate and monitor engineering maintenance plans to keep packaging lines running efficiently and in compliance with standards. You will drive preventive and corrective maintenance, support shutdowns and track costs and KPIs across the site.

You will coordinate TPM initiatives, 5S, RCA cycles, and continuous improvement efforts, while collaborating with engineers, stores, and external contractors to