Maintenance Planner

Job Summary We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Planner to coordinate and optimise maintenance activities, ensuring equipment reliability, minimal downtime, efficient resource utilisation, and effective spare-parts management across our manufacturing operations. Key Responsibilities. Develop and manage weekly, monthly and annual maintenance plans, including preventive and predictive maintenance, weekly care, TPMS and periodic overhauls. Coordinate maintenance schedules with Production, Operations, Utilities and Engineering teams to minimise unplanned downtime and production disruption. Develop detailed job plans, ensuring the availability of manpower, tools, permits, technical documentation and required spare parts. Manage maintenance work orders and backlog through CMMS/SAP PM, ensuring proper planning, execution and closure. Review maintenance-spares requisitions to validate technical specifications, quantities, stock availability and alignment with approved maintenance requirements. Monitor maintenance KPIs, including schedule compliance, PM completion, MTBF, MTTR and planned versus reactive maintenance. Support shutdown planning, equipment reliability improvement, maintenance budgeting and cost optimisation. Ensure compliance with HSE, GMP, food safety and statutory maintenance requirements. Requirements B.Sc. or HND in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Mechatronics, Instrumentation Engineering or a related discipline. 5 - 7 years of maintenance experience in a high-speed FMCG or process-manufacturing environment, including at least 2 years in maintenance planning and scheduling. Practical exposure to production, process and packaging equipment, as well as industrial utilities. Strong working knowledge of CMMS/SAP PM, work-order management, maintenance scheduling and backlog control. Experience in spare-parts planning, inventory control and technical evaluation of maintenance requisitions. Knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, asset criticality, RCA and reliability improvement techniques. Strong analytical, planning, coordination and cost-management skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI or project scheduling tools is an advantage. A recognised maintenance or reliability certification is an added advantage.