Maintenance Scheduler

**Maintenance Scheduler**

**AAK Hull**

AAK Hull is located in the heart of an area enjoying significant redevelopment and investment.

The Port of Hull is being established as a world-class centre for renewable energy and manufacturing, and at AAK we feel proud to be part of this important industrial renaissance for Yorkshire and the UK.

At our recently upgraded site at King George Dock we operate the UK’s largest refinery for edible oils and fats. We supply businesses in the sectors of food manufacturing, baking, foodservice and retail, and we work closely with customers to co-develop bespoke products.

**About the role**

AAK are seeking to appoint a **Maintenance Scheduler** to join the Maintenance team at Site Hull. This is a Monday to Friday, **days** role and will report into the Reliability Engineer. The Maintenance Technician’s, will report into the Maintenance Scheduler.

**Responsibilities**
- ** **Be the principal liaison between the maintenance department and operations, ensuring operations receive prompt, efficient and quality service from the maintenance function and ensure the maintenance function is given the opportunity to provide this service.
- Prior to scheduling work, verify the availability of parts, materials and special tools required for its execution. These should have all been kitted.
- Review the estimate of the current day’s schedule status and forecast of labour availability on a daily basis.
- Develop a maintenance work schedule - From the backlog files for each crew, selects a group of work orders with labour requirements matching the capability of the identified work forces, taking into account any work carry over from jobs previously scheduled.
- Allocates labour and coordinates these jobs.
- Ensure jobs selected for scheduling meet the deadlines established by the requesting department and maintain preventive and predictive maintenance schedules and communicate and re-prioritise if any work orders cannot be scheduled within the prescribed priority lead time.
- Work closely with the planning department in the overall plant scheduling of the following week’s work, including negotiating for downtime ‘windows’ during which preventive and corrective maintenance can be performed.
- Follows up to ensure the completed schedules and work orders are returned at the proper time. Carefully reviews completed schedules and corresponding work orders submitted and monitors work order progress for any reports necessary.
- Works closely with the operation and maintenance leaders, consulting them regarding facilities or equipment to be maintained and provides recommendations concerning long-range maintenance needs and, in collaboration with production, prepares a weekly forecast of all jobs expected to be scheduled for the following week. Where justified, solicits work orders for relatively minor corrective maintenance in order to avoid major repairs at a later date.
- Maintains an open package of schedulable work orders, which require equipment to be shut down so that some or all of them can be performed in the event of an unscheduled shutdown of that equipment. These unscheduled shutdown lists are prepared, reviewed and updated weekly.
- Keeps the maintenance management team properly informed on all abnormal or critical situations.

**About you**
- ** **Time served in one of the engineering disciplines e.g mechanical (preferred), electrical/automation.
- Previous experience in a similar role is desirable.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent administrative and mathematical skills together with a willingness and ability to organise and process paperwork
- Possess a thorough understanding of the proper use of work orders, priorities, scheduling techniques.
- Possess the ability to keep multiple jobs in controlled motion simultaneously.
- Have a mind-set and commitment to customer service.
- Possess a personal style and level of capability that will command respect within both maintenance and operating organisations.

**In return AAK offer**:

- 10% non-contribution pension.
- Bonus scheme.
- UK Healthcare scheme.
- 25 days holidays plus bank holidays.
- Group life cover.