Vacancy NameAsset Care Planner Employment TypePermanent CountryUnited Kingdom LocationBradford Business AreaOperations Workplace TypeOnsite About PrincesThe Princes Group has over 7, employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business. Role DescriptionPrinces Bradford is recruiting for an Asset Care Planner to join our centre of excellence for soft drinks production in the UK.
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Asset Care Manager, this role has responsibility for the execution of the site Asset care plan utilising the company computerised maintenance management system, SAP.
The role will work with the Asset Care Manager to develop appropriate Autonomous and Professional Maintenance plans, upload them into SAP and drive adherence to plan within the site.
Support Bradford site vision, to be the home of operational excellence and the customer’s first choice soft drinks manufacturer.
Working Hours
This is a Monday to Friday 8.45am - 5pm position
Dimensions
0 Direct Reports
The role works closely with Engineering Team Leaders, Manufacturing Operations and Production Planning, to ensure the delivery of both the production plan and the planned maintenance activity to ensure their site is working to attain optimum efficiencies, effectiveness and profitability, initiating and implementing change as appropriate to meet the needs of the business.
Support the reduction of the site costs of asset management, supporting the Asset Care Manager to achieve a 3% reduction year on year
Benefits
1. 25 Days Annual Leave plus Birthday off
2. 14.5% Pension – 5% employee opt in / 9.5% employer
3. Flexible Holiday Option - Buy 5 Additional Days
4. Enhanced Family Friendly & Carers Policies
5. Life Assurance Cover
6. Private Medical Insurance
7. Critical Illness Cover
8. Learning & Development Opportunities
Principal Responsibilities
9. Work with the Asset care Manager and other members of the Engineering team as appropriate to develop effective AM and PrM plans for the site.
10. Directly manage the efficient and effective delivery of asset care plans, implementing a standard approach with the drive to ensure effective use of the CMMS, namely SAP across the site, in line with the Group PMS Roadmap & the Maturity Matrix site development tool.
Support the implementation of the Group asset care strategy across the site in conjunction with the Princes interpretation of the JIPM model involving AM, PRM and EEM:
o AM – Proactively support Autonomous Maintenance steps 0 to 3
o PRM – Drive Professional Maintenance steps 0 to 7
o EEM – Engage and support in Early Equipment Management on Capital projects
11. Ensuring cost of maintenance and maintaining assets is transparent and known.
12. Directly manage the development of SAP PM and other systems to drive planning and control and focussed improvements.
13. Produce appropriate reports to enable the cost of asset management to be totally transparent and to allow effective management decisions.
14. Support the implementation of effective materials management through SAP MM with optimised levels of spares and stock accuracy and service levels and known cost of asset spares.
Maintain and exceed engineering standards etc. within group supply operations ensuring that substandard performance is identified and remedied:
o Understand the site services KPI framework to drive performance standards of Water, Air, Gas, Electricity and Steam. Where a situation with new machine technology arises maximize the energy and environmental efficiency opportunities within current technological boundaries.
o Understand and work within site electrical standards at a minimum compliant with current relevant legislation and the Princes group standards.
o Support the transition from reactive to proactive with targets of 80% of Engineering work planned in advance, 20% of engineering time on C.I. with 75% known utilisation of engineers.
o Promote and drive 5S and GMP and other continuous improvement tools to identify areas for improvement to enhance quality, safety, efficiency and waste reduction
o Continually review performance, identifying and implementing opportunities to improve KPI’s
o Drive the training and development of the Engineering Technician teams within the SAP and other planning environments.
o Promote the highest levels of motivation and engagement, demonstrating effective leadership and communication.
o Support a culture of ownership within the site team for the on-going development of the facilities. Evoke a proactive approach to change and improvement in the performance of the sites.
o Conduct self in line with site values and behaviours at all times.
15. Act as first point of technical support for Operations and Shift Managers in relation to SAP PM.
16. Apply defined best practice in Asset Care Management activity
17. Develop and apply own specialist technical skills in support of Asset Care Management KPI’s
18. Support the Asset Care Manager in ensuring that anyone involved in the Asset Care Management process have a full understanding of the fundamentals of the processes and that any new technology and procedures are introduced in a manner that improves the competitive cost base of the Asset Care requirements for the site.
19. Work closely with support functions (HR, H&S, Manufacturing, Technical, Logistics and Finance) to ensure resources required are identified and communicated with all outstanding issues resolved.
20. Communicate daily with Engineering, Manufacturing and Planning to ensure asset care plans for the site are executed as scheduled.
21. Liaise daily/hourly as required with colleagues within and cross functionally regarding asset care matters
22. Communicate daily with engineering, manufacturing and planning to ensure asset care schedules take into account production priorities and considerations
23. Ensure communication to other sites and peers are undertaken as and when required to ensure consistency and best practice.
General Responsibilities
Understand and take an active role in lean manufacturing work practices including 5S, AM and problem solving (including root cause analysis), to drive continuous improvement activity throughout the site
24. You must exercise reasonable skill and care for the health and safety of yourself and other people at work and you must not interfere with or obstruct anything provided in the interests of health and safety at work.
25. The incumbent should demonstrate behaviours which are in line with the site values & help to improve the Quality, Safety & Environmental culture.
26. Support the business in working towards delivering our ethical trading and human rights vision.
27. When engaging with internal and external stakeholders (such as consumers, customers or suppliers) maximise any potential opportunities to communicate Princes’ ethical trade and human rights approach.
These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the job holder. Flexibility is required by the business & this will be agreed with the individual’s line manager
Role RequirementsKnowledge, Skills & Experience
28. HNC/HND Caliber, hand-on experience in an operational and engineering environment with a track record of world class asset care implementation within the manufacturing sector.
29. Demonstrable track record of achieving results/managing change.
30. Strong operational grounding within a complex fast moving manufacturing environment.
31. Operated within and familiar with implementation of the principles of World Class Manufacturing environments / Continuous Improvement methodologies.
32. Experience of delivering results against financial targets, service levels and safety standards.
33. Good knowledge of established manufacturing processes, with awareness of developing technologies and techniques.
34. Good working knowledge of operating systems such as SAP, AutoCAD, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project.
35. Good practical understanding of factory services (electricity, steam, compressed air, water etc.)
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