Maintenance Planner
Location: Deeside
Salary: 47K-50K + package worth another £7K
Department: Maintenance
The Role
My client is looking for an experienced MaintenancePlanner to join the team and play a key role in driving maintenance performance, reliability, and continuous improvement. This is a hands-on leadership position, requiring strong planning capability, system expertise, and excellent communication skills.
The role is approximately 20% hands-on, primarily supporting planned maintenance (PMs), with 80% office-based responsibilities, including planning, coordination, and direct leadership of maintenance technicians.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance activities using a CMMS, ensuring accuracy and compliance
- Provide direct leadership to maintenance technicians.
- Execute and embed Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) to reduce machine downtime and drive year-on-year improvements in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Manage and optimise preventive maintenance (PM) schedules to improve asset reliability
- Drive maintenance compliance across safety, quality, and regulatory standards
- Lead effective root cause analysis, ensuring issues are resolved permanently rather than repeatedly
- Work closely with production, engineering, and operations teams to support continuous improvement initiatives
Skills & Experience Required
- Proven experience in a maintenance planning role within a manufacturing environment
- Strong CMMS experience, with the ability to plan, schedule, and manage maintenance activities effectively
- Experience using SAP (essential), with the ability to work independently and be fully self-sufficient
- Solid understanding of TPM, OEE, and preventive maintenance best practices
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across engineering and production teams
- A proactive, organised, and solutions-focused approach
Why Join My Client?
- A key role with real influence on site performance and reliability
- 8% Pension Company Contribution
- A balanced position combining planning, leadership, and 20% hands-on engineering
- Opportunity to work in a continuous improvement–driven manufacturing environment
- A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- Bonus Scheme
- Private Healthcare
Interviews can be arranged immediately so apply by following the online instructions or send a CV to Andrew.bairstow@ata-recruitment.co.uk
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