Specialist, Maintenance Planning & Execution; EMEA)

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This role develops, deploys and sustains maintenance planning and execution standards across EMEA plants. It supports BOE Maintenance deployment, CMMS/SFOL standardisation, Global Maintenance Standards rollout, PM compliance reporting, RCA quality, maintenance-event planning and regional improvement initiatives. The role works closely with plant engineering teams, regional maintenance leadership, global maintenance/BOE teams and system support to improve maintenance discipline, equipment reliability, compliance, cost control and shared learning across the region.

How You'll Make a Difference The responsibilities below represent more than daily tasks. They are opportunities to make a difference, collaborate with talented colleagues, and contribute to meaningful outcomes:
Lead maintenance planning and execution standardisation across EMEA, including annual plans, weekly planning routines and supporting major maintenance-event preparation from 12 weeks out through post-event review.

Support BOE Maintenance deployment by maintaining regional progress visibility, reviewing plant evidence, coaching sites on templates and criteria, and supporting assessment readiness.

Standardise and improve CMMS/SFOL use for procedures, orders, requests, interventions, reporting and traceability, including Global Maintenance Standards applicability, translation, release and scheduling.

Prepare and update the monthly regional maintenance scorecard, validate plant commentary, monitor PM compliance, identify data-quality gaps and track corrective actions for focus plants.

Coordinate breakdown review and RCA support, ensuring problem statements, root-cause logic, corrective actions, shared learning and implications for standards, spares, procedures or training are followed through.

Promote best maintenance practices, lean tools, engineered solutions and consistent post-maintenance reviews to build and sustain a world-class maintenance programme.

Support regional reliability and asset initiatives, including wellness-event tracking, rebuild and overhaul visibility, equipment-performance monitoring and targeted improvement activity.

Provide practical plant support through check-ins, site visits, management summaries, tracker updates, action logs and clear escalation of unresolved risks.

Apply technical criteria, history, supplier information, engineering studies and acquired knowledge to support equipment inspection, spare-parts optimisation and maintenance improvement decisions.

Reduce spare-parts inventory through technical analysis while preventing stockouts during mechanical equipment interventions, using equipment history, supplier information, engineering studies, inspection findings and acquired knowledge to optimise spare-parts strategy and maintenance decisions.

Provide cross-functional support across the regional maintenance team, maintaining continuity of key work streams, meetings, stakeholder follow-up, reporting and escalation during team members’ holidays, travel or other planned absences.

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