Engineering Planner

Rare opportunity for a Maintenance Planner to join a large manufacturing site in North Birmingham. Monday to Friday 8.30 – 4.30. Permanent contract offering a great salary, benefits and career development prospects.

This site is part of a global recycling / packaging manufacturing group.

The Engineering Maintenance Planner will assist with the coordination of the site maintenance planning in respect of providing a cost effective, reliability centred, predictive and preventative maintenance work order system. This will require responsibilities for the coordination of the agreed maintenance plans for the future weeks, creation and updating of site wide scheduled maintenance activities, appropriate and timely scheduling, creation, and use of Bills of Materials (BOMs) including the allocation of parts and materials to planned maintenance tasks.

The appointed will also assist in the production work order generation and management. To support the Engineering Planner with his responsibilities.

• Assist with the planning and organising of the maintenance day to day activities, shut coordination, establishing best engineering practices to optimise available resources and minimising shut durations.
• Familiarisation with SAP PM/BI/MRS/MM as a Computerised Maintenance Management System tool to coordinate and control the function of the engineering department’s maintenance activities across the site.
• To control and populate the engineering plan and future plan for all engineering day and shift personnel across all disciplines. To chair weekly scheduling meetings for future weeks activities.
• To control, populate and prioritise a work backlog for all maintenance/production requests, planned and routine maintenance activities and any involvement with other department requests involving the engineering department.
• To assist with the use of SAP PM/BI/MRS/MM to provide structured maintenance plans for production operators to complete basic maintenance tasks and to enable a format for historical documentation of work undertaken.
• Work particularly closely with the Engineering Maintenance section, Engineering reliability section, Operational Managers, to provide a schedule of workload for Multiskilled Shift Technicians to maintain and improve the reliability of assets.
• Regular reviews of SAP Plant Maintenance modules to ensure they cover all aspects of best predictive/preventative maintenance strategies.
• Ensure that all necessary inspection frequencies are recorded in SAP so that the inspections can be arranged in a timely manner (insurance/legal/etc).
• Be fully aware of any changes in SAP in order to undertake all necessary work in maintaining the system.
• Liaise with production, services, and central functions, to ensure that routine maintenance is properly planned, and job requests are executed efficiently and costed effectively.
• In conjunction with the Maintenance Planning Team Leader and site purchasing ensure that equipment removed from the plant, that is being repaired in-house, is coordinated through the maintenance plan, Work Orders allocated to the repair of each item and appropriate cost captured through SAP.
• Support the Engineering Planning Team Leader with the creation and updating of the equipment functional location structure. This will include being involved with criticality assessments, updating of equipment information and data and allocation of Bills of Materials and spare parts required.

• NVQ Level 3 In engineering discipline
• Engineering planning experience including engineering shuts
• Ability to challenge and influence peers and other managers

Full job description available on request.

This is a great opportunity to join the technical team of a company at the forefront of its industry.