Overview
The Material Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and optimising maintenance activities to maximise equipment reliability, engineer productivity, and operational efficiency within an industrial manufacturing environment.
Responsibilities
* Develop and maintain the site maintenance planning and scheduling system to ensure efficient use of engineering resources.
* Plan and coordinate maintenance activities ensuring engineers arrive prepared with the correct parts, tools, permits, and procedures.
* Maintain a 2-4 week planned maintenance backlog to support proactive maintenance planning.
* Design and optimise Preventive Maintenance (PM) programmes, consistently achieving >95% PM compliance.
* Implement Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) techniques including vibration monitoring, thermal inspections, oil analysis, and equipment health checks to detect early signs of failure.
* Manage and maintain the site asset register, tracking key reliability metrics such as MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) and MTTR (Mean Time to Repair).
* Analyse equipment failure data to support continuous improvement initiatives and reduce unplanned downtime.
* Manage maintenance work orders through CMMS systems (SAP PM / Maximo / Fiix) ensuring accurate scope, labour allocation, spare parts, tools, and safety requirements.
* Coordinate work to maximise maintenance engineer productivity, targeting 65-75% wrench time.
* Develop detailed plans for shutdowns and major maintenance activities, working closely with operations teams to minimise production disruption.
Key Focus Areas
* Maintenance planning & scheduling
* Preventive and condition-based maintenance
* Equipment reliability and asset lifecycle management
* Data analysis and continuous improvement
* Cross-functional coordination with operations and engineering teams
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