Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner - Middlesbrough Role: * Responsible for preparing, optimising and controlling planned maintenance work to maximise safe plant availability and minimise reactive maintenance. * Ensure all maintenance activities are fully planned, resourced and scheduled using a structured look-ahead process, enabling efficient execution by technicians and contractors. * Drives maintenance predictability, backlog control and continuous improvement through effective use of cmms and scheduling tools, supporting regulatory compliance within a high-hazard COMAH environment. * Develop fully detailed job plans and work packs that allow technicians to execute work without further clarification, reducing delays and reactive decision-making in the field. * Optimise allocation of internal and contractor resources using forward scheduling and resource levelling to maximise productive maintenance hours. * Liaise with third parties and other departments for planning of maintenance activities. * Collaborate with maintenance and operations teams to identify and prioritise maintenance. * Working with the procurement to source and create purchase orders for consumables, spares and equipment. Requirements: * 2-3 years’ experience in maintenance planning within COMAH, O&G, chemical or heavy industrial environments. * Experience using maintenance scheduling or project planning tools (e.g. Primavera P6, MS Project, or equivalent). * Experience building resource-loaded schedules and maintenance look-ahead plans. Salary: £40-45k DOE Location: Middlesbrough If you would like to be considered, please apply to the position by sending an up to date CV with references. DMW recruitment provides staffing solutions across the UK and internationally. Our aim is to provide a targeted approach to recruitment from project inception to completion within industries which will impact current and future generations