Position Snapshot

Job Title - Maintenance Planner 

Business Unit - Nestlé Purina  

Location – Wisbech Factory (on site) 

Circa £45,000 (depending on experience) plus potential bonus + fantastic benefits 

Position Summary

We currently have a fantastic opportunity as a Maintenance Planner at our site in Wisbech Factory, Cambridgeshire. In the role you will ensure that all maintenance activities are planned and performed in an optimized way, considering all the potential constrains, like: available workforce, production schedule, severity of potential failure, safety, food safety, available tools and spare parts, as well as the corresponding prioritisation of activities.  

At Purina PetCare, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too.

Our Wisbech factory makes some of the UK’s most well-known and much loved brands, such as Felix, Winalot, Gourmet, and Purina ONE, and is constantly developing to meet the changing needs of our consumers. All this happens in a vibrant and historic market town known as the capital of the Fens. 

For a town with a rich history, it also has a strong vision for the future with continued investment planned to ensure Wisbech remains a great place to work, live and visit.
 
Manufacturing in Nestlé is all about ensuring the consumer receives a perfect quality product, at the right time and place whilst driving losses from our business in order to maximise efficiency & productivity.
This is particularly critical as we continue our journey towards being a LEAN Enterprise. This is the biggest change in the way we work that Nestlé have ever seen. It’s worldwide. It is exciting. You could play a key part in it.

A day in the life of a Maintenance Planner…

The Maintenance Planner will ensure that all maintenance activities are planned and performed in the most effective and efficient way, taking into consideration factors such as available resource, budget, production schedules, safety and available tools and spare parts. 

Other responsibilities will include: 

•    Execute the weekly maintenance planning routine. 
•    Coordinate maintenance team. 
•    Support technicians with breakdowns on a reactive basis. 
•    Be proactive and create the maintenance strategy for the future. 
•    Support the technical stores management. 
•    Build relationships across all levels of the factory. 
•    Focused improvement activities. 
•    Support with data in building the maintenance budget. 
•    Ensure sustainable safety practices. 
•    Support project implementation. 
•    Deliver breakdown reduction through BDAs and Work Order management. 
•    Be considered a SAP / Globe superuser.   

What will make you successful?

The person that is successful in this role will ideally have a background in Engineering and naturally drive improvement across engineering maintenance.    

Other attributes would include: 
•    Exposure to working within an Engineering environment would be preferred (e.g. mechanical) 
•    Ideally Degree / Diploma/ HNC in an Engineering discipline (Mechanical, E&A, Process, Industrial Engineering or similar). 
•    Manage and prioritise workload in a fast-paced environment. 
•    Ability to build and maintain relationships across all levels. 
•    A working knowledge of SAP would be advantageous but not essential. 
•    Can do attitude to work with a drive to improve. 
•    Exposure to TPM will be consistent part of the role so experience would be advantageous. 

This opportunity will provides to develop individually and as part of a highly skilled team as well as giving someone the opportunity to make a real impact. 

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 1st March 2024.  

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.  Be yourself, everyone else is taken!