Engineering Planner

A growing food manufacturer are seeking a Engineering Planner and Stores Administrator, to join their engineering team. In this non-technical, highly collaborative position within the engineering and maintenance sector, you'll help keep maintenance work moving smoothly, improve spare parts availability, and support better decision-making through clear reporting and continuous improvement.

What You Will Do:

- Review and refine PPM schedules and regimes to create an effective maintenance plan for planned work.

- Coordinate maintenance request reviews, ensuring tasks are prioritised, scheduled, and allocated with timely feedback to request originators.

- Develop and maintain robust spares stock management processes, including accurate records of quantities and value.

- Apply 5S principles to improve stock visibility, enabling easy put-away and quick retrieval of critical items.

- Support performance reporting using KPIs such as analysing maintenance and inventory trends to drive improvements.

- Manage maintenance spend requests by raising and tracking requests, ensuring pre-authorisation and accurate allocation to revenue or capital spend.

What You Will Bring:

- Proven experience in engineering or maintenance environments, ideally supporting maintenance planning or stores functions.

- Strong confidence using Microsoft Office, plus experience with systems such as SAP and Ariba (training support will be provided where needed).

- Excellent organisation and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.

- Strong communication skills to influence across teams, including maintenance, production, supply chain, and stakeholders at different levels.

- A data-minded approach, comfortable working with figures and using analysis to spot trends and recommend improvements.

This Engineering Planner and Stores Administrator role plays a vital part in optimising planned maintenance activity and keeping downtime as low as possible. By strengthening spare parts availability, improving maintenance planning quality, and delivering clear performance data, this company can support reliable bakery product operations and continuous operational improvement across the site.

Location:

This Engineering Planner and Stores Administrator role is based at the site in Worcester, with the day-to-day work centred on maintenance planning and stores support.

Interested?:

If you're ready to bring structure, accuracy, and continuous improvement to engineering maintenance planning, apply now for the Engineering Planner and Stores Administrator role and take the next step in your career.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
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