Maintenance Planner

Company: DMW Recruitment
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Location: Osmotherley
Job Description:

Maintenance Planner – Middlesbrough

Responsibilities

  • Preparing, optimizing and controlling planned maintenance work to maximise safe plant availability and minimise reactive maintenance.
  • Ensuring all maintenance activities are fully planned, resourced and scheduled using a structured look‑ahead process, enabling efficient execution by technicians and contractors.
  • Driving maintenance predictability, backlog control and continuous improvement through effective use of CMMS and scheduling tools, supporting regulatory compliance within a high‑hazard COMAH environment.
  • Developing 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.
  • Optimizing allocation of internal and contractor resources using forward scheduling and resource leveling to maximise productive maintenance hours.
  • Liaising with third parties and other departments for planning of maintenance activities.
  • Collaborating with maintenance and operations teams to identify and prioritise maintenance.
  • Working with procurement to source and create purchase orders for consumables, spares and equipment.

Qualifications

  • 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 DOELocation: Middlesbrough

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Posted: May 22nd, 2026