The rewards and benefits on offer:

• Good pension scheme (company matches up to 9% employee contributions)
• Medical insurance scheme (Westfield cash plan)
• EAP, including high street discounts, free counselling etc
• Free fruity Tuesdays (and Wed too usually)
• Group Life Assurance scheme (x7 death in service benefit)

MTrec’s New Opportunity

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious engineering client, based in Tyne & Wear, with their plans for growth and expansion, by recruiting a permanent Maintenance Planner to join their team. You will be joining a fast-paced, dynamic company, with an excellent team-based culture and huge opportunities to progress your career. Our client is a major international player in their specialist industry sector and supplies its quality products globally. You will be joining a very secure and expanding business, where you will enjoy a varied working environment, a great team culture and a great new career move. Please apply now for an immediate response.

The job you’ll do:

• The Maintenance Planner (MP) has the responsibility for administrating the Company’s Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Utilising the CMMS system, the MP has the responsibility for the planning and execution of all site wide planned maintenance and general planned maintenance activities in all areas of the site.
• Administer the Site CMMS including any system changes and upgrades
• Populate the CMMS with all relevant General and Planned Maintenance instructions, activities and data
• Issue Planned Maintenance Works Orders to all relevant stakeholders in a timely manner
• Liaising with key stakeholders onsite, raise relevant Works Orders via the CMMS system
• Be actively involved in all department spends tracking (Inc. Repair Costs, Tooling, etc.)
• Support the wider department in administrating the site Asset Management system
• Be actively involved in managing any obsolescence and critical spares control
• Drive continuous improvement of CMMS & PM work orders
• Support Reliability Engineers with Contractor administration control e.g. issue daily tracker,
• manage all documentation (permits, inductions, liability insurance, etc.)
• Administration of site-specific inspection reports
• Department Meetings timetable – arrange and administrate where required
• Always comply with company EHS policy and statutory requirements.
• Ensure that all activities are carried out in accordance with all applicable safety procedures.
• Completion of all mandatory EHS training and refreshers as required in a timely manner.
• Practice safe working techniques in all that you do.
• Effective waste management control within the relevant area of responsibility, to control, reduce and eliminate waste within anything that we do.
• Adhere to high levels of GMP and ensure 5S is always carried out.

About you:

• Maintenance or Engineering qualification desirable (minimum Level 3 NVQ)
• IOSH Managing Safely is desirable
• Minimum 2 years’ experience of working in a busy manufacturing maintenance department
• High level of engineering appreciation
• Organised, methodical approach to problems, able to achieve deadlines.