Maintenance Planner

**Maintenance Planner**

**Permanent, Full Time**

**Competitive + Benefits**

**Barrow Mill, Cumbria**

**Your Job**

Do you want to make an impact on products that consumers around the world can’t live without? Are you curious about the engineering, technology and development behind some of the world’s most loved brands such as Andrex and Kleenex?

We currently have a vacancy for a Maintenance Planner at Barrow Mill, reporting to the Site Reliability Leader. The purpose of the role is to work with the maintenance / engineering teams at Barrow Mill in the planning and scheduling of maintenance activities to ensure the effectiveness of plant equipment is maintained to world class standards. The role will also see you continuously improving asset reliability with a desire to make a proactive difference

**About Us**:
Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on 151 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**About You**

Lead maintenance task planning and work order management including.
- Run daily SAP reports and review daily notifications for the site and advise on critical actions.
- Work request approval, updating work orders to accurately reflect current work and reviewing daily new work orders.
- Development and preparation of task work packages.
- Identification and allocation of resources for maintenance activities
- Plan, develop and confirm asset inspections and standard work associated with equipment condition alongside the Asset Engineers
- Collaborate with mill production planners and asset teams to identify appropriate maintenance scheduled activities.
- Support coordination of materials with Maintenance Engineers, Technicians and teams.
- Through the development of tasks packages, ensure work packs are available prior to the commencement of maintenance tasks.
- Prepare work packages in anticipation of short shut opportunities. Obtaining quotes for materials and services, Order materials and services in SAP following pre-approval.
- Ensure that statutory inspections are scheduled in SAP and completed to ensure site compliance.
- Schedule maintenance activities to ensure mínimal disruption to production processes.
- Working with Maintenance Engineer and the engineering teams to order and maintain the correct level of consumables on site.
- Agreeing work scope with subcontractors and obtaining quotes against them.
- Supervision of contractors and managing work permit systems.
- Creating Maintenance shut plans using MS Project and creating Site Maintenance site Calendar and keeping it update.

**What you’ll bring...**
- Preferably have previous experience on working in a manufacturing operation, or in an automated or continuously operating process facility.
- Experience of planning and scheduling techniques and the use of tools to manage this.
- Experience of coordinating resources including contract / suppliers.
- Knowledge and experience of supervising/managing contractors.
- Computer literacy, SAP, MS Project, Word, Excel etc.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- We work in a culture of continuous improvement so having experience of lean methodologies and conventional plant operations would be advantageous.

**Total Benefits**

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work. We are proud to be rated as a top 100 workplace for working mothers for two years in a row.

**To Be Considered**

**And finally, the small print.**:

- The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position._
- Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will rec