Business Area: Nestle UK Ltd
Location: York Factory

Salary up to/from £52,000 depending on experience.

Terms: Full time - Days Mon- Fri, Flexible Working

Some of our other fantastic benefits

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus
• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestle
• 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement
• 2 paid volunteering days
• A focus on personal development and growth (insert relevant detail on study support, etc)

Although this is a full-time opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs, don’t let this stop you from applying.

We have an exciting opportunity within or Maintenance Team for a forward thinking highly motivated individual as a Maintenance Planner, to join our team based at our Confectionery Factory in York.

We have a team consisting of 12 shift technicians, 2 day technicians and a days-based Maintenance (Reliability) Engineer.

The team's goals include continuously improving and developing our long-term maintenance strategy, increasing asset reliability and reducing breakdowns.

The Maintenance Planner Role is 80% of the role is based on creating and executing the maintenance plans for the current and coming weeks.  Alongside this there will often be other projects and improvements in the department which need the planner’s support and involvement. This is a a specialist role within the engineering management team and contributes to the long term goals and aspirations for the Factory.

Your Impact

• Manage planned maintenance for existing assets. Execute the weekly maintenance planning routine, including task prioritisation, collaboration with production and scheduling to agree downtime, ensuring spare parts availability, creation and communication of a weekly plan and working with the engineering team to ensure all planned work is completed to the correct standard.
• Parts kitting out for planned tasks
• Support of department with technical issues
• Support in safety and quality issue resolution
• Review, create and optimise maintenance plans using our CMMS (SAP PM) to improve the quality and effectiveness of our scheduled maintenance.
• Optimise the maintenance planning strategy, ensuring engineering and hygiene compliance, to allow efficient planning and completion of routine tasks.
• Contribute to the upkeep of all relevant technical documentation.
• Ensure all technicians are trained and competent in the use of SAP PM, provide refresher training as required, audit and provide feedback on SAP PM usage and ensure a high quality of data is maintained.
• Coordinate 3rd party maintenance service providers, ensuring high quality of service and safe completion of all scheduled work.
• Provide supporting data for maintenance budget planning and tracking.
• Reporting to facilitate review of maintenance indicators.
• Coordinate with the Technical Stores for the creation of spare parts documentation, procurement of parts and services required for maintenance and spare parts priority classification.
• Ensure all non-stock parts required are ordered on time and orders are compliant with Nestle processes.
• Participate in and positively contribute to site initiatives as requested to include HACCP, ISO9002, CDM, Management of Change etc.

Your Ingredients for Success

• Experienced in a maintenance role in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (preferably food)
• A vision to build a plan, and the resilience to see it through to completion
• Passion for Engineering solutions
• Enthusiasm for Engineering maintenance
• Wants to progress the role with their own insights and ideas
• Highly motivated
• Experienced SAP PM User
• Familiar with Microsoft Share Point
• Familiar with Power BI (or equivalent) – compliance monitoring system
• Engineering background (academic or otherwise), electrical or mechanical
• Educated to NVQ level 2 or higher

What you need to know

Advert closing date: 18/08/2028

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 and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.

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