Engineering Maintenance Planner

Are you an experienced and dynamic Maintenance Planner or Engineering Planner looking for your permanent role? Have you worked in the heavy engineering or manufacturing sector? If so, read on as we may just have the role for you!

At Tarmac, ‘who you are’ matters. We want to get to know you. If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others, and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer.

We are currently recruiting for an Engineering Maintenance Planner to join our engineering and maintenance team at our Linford Block Plant, located close to Stanford-le-Hope in Essex. The site is easily accessible from various areas including Tilbury, Gravesend, and Dartford.

Here at Tarmac, we are working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment, and it’s important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.

Role Responsibility

You as the Engineering Maintenance Planner will be responsible for adopting and deploying mechanical planning methods in line with our Maintenance Strategy and utilizing our CMMS (Computer Maintenance Management System) to develop WO (Work Order) task steps, estimate resource requirements, and assign required equipment/materials/spares necessary to enable efficient and safe maintenance activities to be completed in line with company and technical standards. You will support an inclusive culture where people are treated with dignity and respect.

Your responsibilities as the Engineering Maintenance Planner will include (not exhaustive):

• Monitor and maximise productivity of processes, making cost-effective use of resources, products, and equipment.
• Develop Planned Maintenance and Lubrication schedules with the Engineering Manager and Mechanical Inspector.
• Ensure that all necessary materials, spares, and tools are available in designated locations for planned operations which meet the required quantity and quality expected.
• Define estimated task duration and costs for all work orders and develop detailed job plans to help optimise resource deployment.
• Formalise and update:
  • Detailed WO job-plans for major maintenance operations and shut-downs.
  • Maintenance Outage Plans and Technical Documentation.
  • Records and statistics.
• Maintain and update information and data in the CMMS ensuring the Maintenance Workflow is adhered to.
• Plan major equipment annual overhauls and adhere to annual maintenance outage plans.
• Create shutdown programmes including financial detail and support shutdown management and Contractor supervision during major repair periods.
• Produce tender specifications in line with Tarmac standards for engineering services and spares.
• Manage general and specific technical documentation in the technical library to ensure historical data is available.
• Maintain Health and Safety rules and regulations, ensuring all Safe Systems of Work are signed off and complied with.
• Manage and develop third party relationships, ensuring effective service contracts are in place.

Site operations are 365 days, 24/7, and the role requires flexibility to ensure effective running of the plant.

The Ideal Candidate

The successful applicant in the role of Engineering Maintenance Planner will be instrumental in the future development and support of the engineering culture to achieve the benefits available through our continuous improvement strategy. You will have experience as in Engineering (Supervisor or Planner) / Maintenance (Supervisor or Planner) within a similar heavy manufacturing industry, which is essential.

Engineering Maintenance Planner - Qualifications/Requirements/Capabilities:

• ESSENTIAL - Mechanical, Pneumatic and Hydraulic systems knowledge, with an understanding of electrical systems.
• HNC/HND in a role related discipline along with a recognised apprenticeship or BEng would prove highly beneficial.
• Technical knowledge of preventive, predictive and systematic maintenance (databases, CMMS, Project Software).
• Computer literate - Strong SAP knowledge and CMMS and familiarity with computer software (word, excel, etc).
• NEBOSH or IOSH Managing Safely is desirable.
• Good communication skills, with a positive, proactive can-do attitude.

Why Us

In the role of Engineering Maintenance Planner we additionally offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives, and benefits:

• Enhanced holiday entitlement.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
• Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice.
• Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks).
• Training and development opportunities.

Interested? Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when this happens we sometimes bring the published closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Salary: Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits Package

Frequency: Annual

Job Reference: tarmac/TP/117/6183

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 30 November, 2024

Job Category: Operations, Quarrying and Production

Business Unit: National Performance & Building Products