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Engineering Planning Manager

Bolton
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At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. 

Are you a Maintenance Manager or Engineering Planner, seeking a 6 month Fixed Term contract?

Working as an Engineering Planning Manager as part of a highly skilled and established engineering team, you’ll maximise plant reliability and performance to ensure our high standards of quality are achieved and to meet customers’ expectations. Managing the preventative maintenance system you’ll ensure overall equipment efficiency reducing downtime and damage.

The Recipe As our Engineering Planning Manager, you’ll ensure the delivery of effective maintenance support to the site. You’ll work collaboratively with Reliability Managers and Engineering site leads to plan and schedule all maintenance activity including backlog, spares and materials. In addition, you’ll support plant criticality reviews, review maintenance plans, establishing critical spares, and be the key user for the site SAP PM maintenance system and reporting.

You’ll ensure stock is available for planned maintenance and ensure contractors work safely in line with risk assessments.

The Role
Planning and scheduling of a risk-based maintenance strategy
Planning shutdowns and follow on works
Ensure data integrity within the CMMS system (SAP). 
Materials for work orders are anticipated and available for scheduled works
CI – evaluate the effectiveness of Planned performance maintenance tasks based on KPIs
Ensure service contracts/external supplier relationships are maintained and supplier effectiveness is reviewed. 
Contractor Control - RAMS Essential Ingredients
Experienced Engineering Planner
Experience of Contractor and stores management
IT knowledge – able to use widespread functions within relevant software inc. Microsoft Office and SAP
Analysing and problem-solving skills – anticipates problems before they occur, takes steps to deal with them/correctly & swiftly identifies the underlying problem & appropriate solutions, based on analysis of data.
H&S knowledge e.g. IOSH – able to ensure a safe working environment.
Communication skills – articulate/develops effective, long-term relationships with key people. Extra Dough  

And last but by no means least, you'll want to know what your breads worth.

A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share)
Family time is important to us so as well as your holiday entitlement, we'll give you the opportunity to purchase up to an extra weeks annual leave
Award winning pension scheme with company contributions
Life assurance
Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website
Continued investment in your personal development
Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew!
Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice and a comprehensive occupational health service  

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do

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