Maintenance Planner

Job Location: Purfleet, United Kingdom
Created moment: February 10, 2025
Job reference: REQ - 09560

Job Summary

Hours of work including shift pattern: Monday to Friday – 8 am-4 pm 

* Capacity and willingness to respond to after-hours needs (physically and remotely).

The Maintenance Planner & Scheduler will ensure plant performance and efficient utilization of engineering resources and tools, defining work procedures and methods within the Maintenance framework as defined by the Group, coordinated and managed locally by the Manager responsible for Engineering Services.

Why work for Imerys?

• At Imerys every member of our team matters. Our priority is the health and safety of our people and our aim is to create diverse and inclusive workplaces. We are always striving to be better and to support our people to continuously learn, improve, and innovate. This allows them to tap into their full potential and to take advantage of the wealth of career and development opportunities available.  
• The job role: The Maintenance Planner is responsible for engineering continuous improvement, administration of CMMS, and maintenance planning/scheduling processes which include the following but are not limited to; 
• Prepare, schedule, and allocate preventive, improvement, and reactive work orders (WOs) and check WOs workflow and progress. 
• Participate in managing engineering statutory and good practice activities and contracts (LOLER, PSSR, PAT testing, etc.). 
• Compile and review risk assessments and method statements and issue permits for engineering activities.
• Organise and manage engineering contractors and works.
• Monitor, analyze, and report maintenance KPIs (MTBF, MTTR, Uptime, Plan realization, WOs Completion ratio, WOs backlog.
• Develop lean manufacturing tools and reliability improvement techniques (RCA, FMEA)
• Manage annual/ weekly maintenance and shutdown plans and spare parts
• Participate in engineering projects’ feasibility study, technical specifications, planning, budgeting, installation, execution, commissioning, and handover.
• Participate in maintenance budgeting and cost controls.
• Participate in the execution of maintenance tasks (hands-on jobs within the capabilities and competency of the incumbent) where required. 
• Operating various equipment, tools, and vehicles as trained if required for the execution of post holder’s duties i.e. Fork Lift Trucks, Cherry Picker.

What’s in it for you? List the full benefits and use bullet points 

• 28 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays 
• Performance bonus
• Generous pension plan
• PMI (Private Medical Insurance)
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Company Sick Pay
• Discounts on external retailers
• Cycle to work scheme