Technical Asset Planner - Distilling

Job Title
:
Technical Asset Planner
- Distilling

Function
:
Distilling

Location
:
Invergordon Distillery, Invergordon, Scotland – multi-site role covering Whyte & Mackay’s five distilleries and maturation sites.

Job Level: (Internal Reference Only) 4

Contract
:
Full Time / Permanent
- Monday to Thursday, 08:00am – 4:30pm & Friday, 08:00 – 14:00 (38 hours p/w) Some evenings and weekend work, travel within the UK will be required.

Role

Reports to:

Engineering Manager

Date vacancy will close
:
Friday, 30th October 2026.

The Technical Asset Planner – Distilling is responsible for planning, organising and coordinating engineering and maintenance work across Whyte & Mackay’s five distillery and 2 maturation sites.

The role ensures that maintenance activities, engineering tasks, statutory work, shutdown activity and contractor work are effectively scoped, risk assessed, permitted, scheduled and ready for safe execution.

A key part of the role is to control and manage the permit to work system, ensuring that all tasks have suitable risk assessments and method statements submitted in time, reviewed appropriately and included within the agreed work plan before execution.

• Plan and coordinate engineering and maintenance work across the distillery and maturation estate, ensuring activities are clearly scoped, prioritised, scheduled and aligned with operational requirements.

• Develop and maintain short, medium and longer-term maintenance plans covering preventive maintenance, corrective work, statutory tasks, contractor activity, shutdown works and operational access requirements.

• Control and manage the permit to work system for engineering and maintenance activities, ensuring permits are prepared, reviewed, authorised and issued in accordance with company procedures and site safety requirements.

• Ensure all planned tasks have suitable and sufficient risk assessments, method statements and required supporting documentation submitted, reviewed and approved in advance of work being added to or released from the plan.

• Support the planning and coordination of shutdowns, outages and major maintenance windows, ensuring work packs, permits, RAMS, materials, services, contractors and access requirements are prepared in advance.

• Coordinate contractor maintenance and engineering activities so that contractor work is planned, documented, risk assessed and integrated into site schedules without compromising safety, production or compliance.

• Maintain accurate planning information within the CMMS or maintenance management system, including work orders, task status, priorities, resource needs, completion updates and backlog visibility.

• Lead planning meetings with engineering, production, HSE and site teams to agree priorities, resolve constraints, confirm work readiness and communicate planned activity clearly.

• Ensure engineering and maintenance work is planned in accordance with health and safety requirements, statutory obligations, site rules, permit requirements and company engineering standards.

• Identify and deliver improvements to planning discipline, permit compliance, maintenance readiness, shutdown preparation, contractor coordination and workflow efficiency across the estate.

For this role we're looking for:

• Experience in engineering planning, maintenance planning, maintenance coordination or engineering administration…