Maintenance Planner

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GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet.

With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, coordinating, and improving maintenance work execution across production, facilities, utilities, and process equipment. This role oversees preventive maintenance schedules, reactive maintenance coordination, spare parts planning, purchasing support, inventory management, and communication between maintenance, operations, engineering, vendors, and contractors.

The ideal candidate has strong maintenance experience, excellent organizational skills, CMMS expertise, and the ability to balance urgent reactive work with long-term preventive maintenance and reliability goals. This position is critical to improving schedule compliance, equipment uptime, maintenance efficiency, spare parts availability, and communication across the site.

• Develop, maintain, and improve preventive maintenance schedules for production, facility, utility, and process equipment.
• Plan and schedule reactive, corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance work in coordination with maintenance and operations teams.
• Review incoming work requests, clarify scope, prioritize work, and ensure work orders contain accurate information.
• Build detailed job plans including labor requirements, parts, tools, procedures, safety requirements, permits, drawings, vendor support, and estimated downtime.
• Coordinate with operations to schedule maintenance activities while minimizing impact to production.
• Manage maintenance backlog, review overdue work, and support prioritization of critical repairs and planned work.
• Track PM completion, schedule compliance, work order aging, backlog, downtime, and other maintenance KPIs.
• Complete, update, and manage maintenance documentation, work order records, equipment history, PM plans, and asset data in the computerized maintenance management system, CMMS.
• Support purchasing activities for maintenance parts, tools, services, consumables, and contractor support.
• Manage spare parts and inventory planning including min/max levels, reorder points, critical spares, obsolete parts, and cycle count support.
• Partner with technicians, engineers, operations, and vendors to identify required parts and improve spare parts accuracy.
• Coordinate vendor and contractor scheduling for planned maintenance, repairs, inspections, calibrations, and project support.
• Support root cause analysis efforts by reviewing maintenance history, failure trends, downtime events, and recurring work orders.
• Develop and improve standard work instructions, job plans, PM procedures, maintenance checklists, and planning templates.
• Participate in daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance planning meetings.
• Support reliability, continuous improvement, cost reduction, and equipment initiatives.
• Communicate maintenance schedules, risks, constraints, and resource needs to site stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Several years of experience in maintenance, facilities, manufacturing, industrial operations, maintenance planning, scheduling, or a related technical environment.
• Experience using computerized maintenance management systems, CMMS, to create, schedule, update, and close work orders.
• Strong understanding of preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, reactive work, and maintenance workflow processes.
• Experience coordinating maintenance work with operations, technicians,…