Maintenance Planner

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We bond with customers and partners to address today and tomorrow’s megatrends. As a global leader in Materials, Chemicals and Solutions, Solvay brings advancements in planes, cars, batteries, smart and medical devices, water and air treatment, to solve critical industrial, social and environmental challenges. You can count on our innovative solutions to contribute to safer, cleaner and more sustainable future.

**We are looking for**:
The Maintenance planner and scheduler is responsible for all planning, scheduling, and some spare part management activities within the maintenance department. They will ensure the work is planned effectively, and scheduled appropriately to minimize equipment downtime, ensuring maintenance engineers utilization and efficiency is maximized, whilst achieving defined safety and quality standards, thus providing alignment with departmental stakeholders and functions. This is a great opportunity to be involved in defining a new maintenance strategy for the site, enabling the role to further grow within the business as a pivotal player in ensuring the success of the site.

**We count on you for**:
**Planning and Scheduling**
- Planning of all non-emergency preventive maintenance (PM) and corrective work orders(CM) including planned stoppages and outages, whether this be internally or contracted
- Provides documentation for maintenance jobs with appropriate information to ensure effective and efficient job execution
- Prepares maintenance schedules at weekly, daily and shift level inclusive of PM and CM work orders as well as planned stoppages
- Reports and explains performance against the previous week’s schedule at a weekly meeting with local management (using KPI reports where appropriate)
- Ensuring kitting is prepared for pre-planned jobs
- Planning & scheduling of the calibration system ensuring that all assets remain within their calibrated status

**SAP management in maintenance**
- Plans all work orders within SAP inclusive of operational tasks, resources, time estimates, materials and services to allow effective completion of all maintenance work orders
- The SME within the SAP PM module to enable the maintenance and ever development of the CMMS system on site whether this be creation of new assets, modifications to old, creation/adaptation of maintenance plans, and maintenance scheduling
- SAP controlling with respect to compliance with statutory examinations such as, LOLER, Pressure vessels and any other statutory inspections relevant to site and industry

**Permits/inductions**
- Write /authorizes permits as required for employees and contractors activities
- Ensures the permit system is followed and archives permits where required
- Carries out audits of PTW to ensure that permits are completed correctly
- Ensure inductions are carried out by contractors and correctly documented

**Safety checks and systems**
- Carries out job risk assessments with shift engineers for specific new Method Statements or one point lessons where repeatable tasks are been completed
- Participation in the company safety involvement systems

**You can count on us for**:

- We offer the opportunity to join an exciting growth company
- A full range of benefits as expected of a successful company
- Exciting career opportunities in a fast moving environment
- An extensive training package

**You will bring**:

- Apprentice trained
- SAP or other CMM experience
- Experience planning and scheduling for a maintenance team
- Autonomous, Self-motivated to be involved in the redevelopment of a maintenance strategy/operation
- Ability to challenge the status quo/normal
- Team player, Ability to integrate into a small team and develop relationships not only internally but also with external partners
- Be proactive yet methodical in their work

**You will get**:

- Competitive salary and benefits package
- 16, or more, weeks of maternity/paternity and co-parenting leave, according to local regulations
- Training platform for all employees
- Free language courses (24 languages available)
- Free well-being sessions (physical and psychological)

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