Maintenance Planner - Middlesbrough Role: * Responsible for preparing, optimising and controlling planned maintenance work to maximise safe plant availability and minimise reactive maintenance. * Ensure all maintenance activities are fully planned, resourced and scheduled using a structured look-ahead process, enabling efficient execution by technicians and contractors. * Drives maintenance predictability, backlog control and continuous improvement through effective use of cmms and scheduling tools, supporting regulatory compliance within a high-hazard COMAH environment. * Develop fully detailed job plans and work packs that allow technicians to execute work without further clarification, reducing delays and reactive decision-making in the field. * Optimise allocation of internal and contractor resources using forward scheduling and resource levelling to maximise productive maintenance hours. * Liaise with third parties and other departments for planning of maintenance activities. * Collaborate with maintenance and operations teams to identify and prioritise maintenance. * Working with the procurement to source and create purchase orders for consumables, spares and equipment. Requirements: * 2-3 years’ experience in maintenance planning within COMAH, O&G, chemical or heavy industrial environments. * Experience using maintenance scheduling or project planning tools (e.g. Primavera P6, MS P...