Astute's Power Team are supporting a leading Waste Management Company to recruit a Maintenance Planner for a large Energy from Wate plant located in Bedfordshire.

The facility, which is now in its third full year of operations, provides a vital outlet for the sustainable disposal of over 545,000 tonnes of residual waste per year and generates over 60 megawatts of low carbon energy - enough electricity to meet the needs of over 112,500 homes.

As a Maintenance Planner you will oversee the safe planning & coordination of all reactive & preventative maintenance activities on the plant as well as supporting the planning & delivery of outages / shutdowns and plant improvement projects.

If you have the right skills & experience and want to find out more, please get in touch!

Responsibilities and duties of the Maintenance Planner role
Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for:

Developing, maintaining and implementing the sites CMMS to plan and schedule maintenance for both short term and long-term maintenance work to ensure maximum plant availability
Improve efficiency by implementing new processes for maintenance scheduling and reporting focusing on continuous improvement methods
Assist with the planning of outages & shutdowns, allocating appropriate resource across multiple departments ensuring compliance with CDM requirements
Publishing work orders and creating weekly reports for site management
Ensure all work adheres to the sites code of practice, safety rules and maintenance strategy
Entering defects into the schedules in order to help maintain plant availability
Lead plant investigations utilising RCA / Root Cause Analysis and other maintenance strategies to improve availability & reliability
Attend daily meetings with the Operations & Maintenance Departments to discuss outstanding and future maintenance activities
Liaising with stores personnel & procurement to ensure parts are ordered from external suppliers
Manage the stores catalogue, ensuring stock is ordered in a timely manner
Run daily/weekly meetings as required to monitor and ensure successful completion of scheduled work
Professional qualifications
We are looking for someone with the following:

A minimum level 3 relevant engineering / technical qualification
Significant experience using a CMMS system such as SAP, Maximo
MS Project experience, or similar such as Primavera P6
Personal skills
The Maintenance Planner role would suit someone who has:

Previous experience in a heavy process engineering environment, this may have been gained in a Power Station (Energy from Waste, Coal, CCGT, Biomass, CHP, Nuclear etc), Chemical Plant, Steelworks, Refinery etc.
Ability to coordinate & allocate resource accordingly to business needs.
An understanding of Engineering issues on a large industrial plant
Salary and benefits of the Maintenance Planner role

Salary of up to £50,000
Bonus Opportunity
Overtime (1.5x)
Other benefits

INDPOW

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