Engineering Maintenance Planner

**Location : Cookstown**:
**Job Ref: UDF/2024/353**:
**Employment : Full-Time Permanent**:
**Closing Date : 18 November 2024 05:00 pm**:
Dale Farm Cooperative is a UK dairy farmer co-operative owned by over 1200 dairy farmers who supply us with fresh milk. Dale Farm has operations throughout the UK and Ireland producing and distributing a wide range of dairy products which it sells across the UK and Ireland as well as exporting to over 45 countries worldwide.

At Dale Farm virtually every career discipline is represented in our workforce, from production, engineering and distribution, to sales & marketing and food technology/quality assurance, to Finance, HR and IT through to general management. Our standards are high and when we recruit we are looking for those with energy and drive, who are keen for responsibility and motivated to succeed with a record of achievement and with the potential to develop as the company grows.

**Culture**

Our culture is based on setting best in class standards, working to-wards and delivering on committed objectives, striving for constant improvement and involving everyone in the company. We strive to develop our people and harness everyone's contribution to deliver a winning team.

**Equal Opportunities**

The company is an Equal Opportunities employer and is committed to a safe, inclusive and relationship based workspace.

**Benefits**

In return, we offer a high degree of responsibility, plenty of challenge, good opportunities for learning and personal development and rewarding benefit packages, all within a fast moving and results oriented environment.

**Engineering Maintenance Planner - Dunman**

As an Engineering Maintenance Planner you will play an integral part in the delivery of the vision for the Engineering Function.a team dedicated to providing best in class engineering support to the manufacturing operation. The Engineering Maintenance Planner is responsible for the efficient planning and scheduling of all non-emergency maintenance work. Working closely with the Engineering, Operations and Quality teams, the Engineering Maintenance Planner will create robust maintenance plans, building the structures within the planned maintenance system and generating KPI’s on relevant data within the department.

This role is an important new role for the Engineering Team at Dunman and the initial 6-12months will involve working with other stakeholders to develop and fully implement the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
- Shift Pattern: 9am-5pm Monday to Friday with a level of flexibility when required.

**Duties will include**:
As an Engineering Maintenance Planner, you will be responsible for:

- Adopting a safety first approach when planning all maintenance work
- Adherence to site safety, food safety and quality processes and procedures
- Efficiently planning, scheduling and controlling the workflow of all non-urgent maintenance from origination through to assignment
- Developing, implementing and maintaining the site CMMS
- Coordinating parts, equipment availability and time of maintenance engineers and third-party contractors for development of robust maintenance plans
- Liaising with supply chain, production and quality organisations to achieve the maintenance whilst minimising the impact to output and quality of product
- Ensuring the engineering and production team are properly informed of all abnormal situations arising from planned work and seek advice where appropriate
- Building and maintaining a recording system for storage of appropriate records and files resulting from maintenance work carried out, ensuring such files are always audit ready.
- Developing and evolving engineering systems on site, including data capture and optimisation of our preventative maintenance programme
- Generating and reporting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for the Engineering Department
- Developing and managing the Engineering budget provision for fixed services
- Developing and managing the fixed service contract register, co-ordinating all fixed service contract visits to site
- Taking ownership of the Engineering Calibration Register, ensuring all relevant instruments are captured and that calibrations are kept up to date and correct
- Planning and coordinating third party statutory compliance inspections such as PSSR, LOLER, DSEAR etc.
- Working closely with the engineering stores and purchasing function to ensure timely availability of spares and creation of kitted jobs
- Developing and delivering shutdown plans by working closely with engineering managers, service providers and other functions
- Identifying opportunities for improving ways of working and working with the engineering team to optimise our maintenance strategies
- Leading improvement projects relative to engineering systems and maintenance strategy optimisation

**Specific Experience & Education**

**Required**:

- Engineering degree, time-served apprenticeship or similar relevant qualifi