Maintenance Planner at Diageo

About the role: 

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance activities to ensure plant equipment and assets operate reliably and efficiently
• Work at T1 & T2 level to effectively manage Work Planning & Control business process 
• Effectively manage and optimise internal and external maintenance resources, time, and material. 
• Interpret and analyse data and action to improve asset care practice and performance  
• Coach and engage operational teams across business areas of responsibility in order that Asset Care is prioritised and owned by Operations  
• Ensure Work planning and scheduling key performance indicators are managed and communicated, and improvement actions agreed. 
• Ensures maintenance work orders are properly planned, prioritized, and executed with minimal disruption to operations using systems such as SAP ERP.

Role Responsibilities: 

• Ensure adherence to Health & Safety, Environmental & Quality Standards. 
• Ensure compliance to maintenance regulatory standards within the area. 
• Work with Maintenance Leaders and Craft teams to identify areas of plant under performance and support improvement plans   
• Responsible for management of SAP data integrity with respect to plant and equipment structures, maintenance plans, task lists and work orders for business area(s) of responsibility in accordance with Diageo Work Planning and Scheduling standards 
• Work with Asset Care Leaders and Asset Care Technicians to ensure work requests undergo adequate technical assessment and planning prior to scheduling work  
• Engage and coach stores teams to support effective and efficient planning through use of job kitting in accordance with Diageo Work Planning and Scheduling standards 
• Support & energise deployment of the MMS Asset Care strategy and practice at business area(s) of responsibility with Equipment Owners, Asset Care Technicians and operators  
• Lead weekly Asset Care integrated planning meeting providing scheduled maintenance requirements, performance reporting and agree improvement actions with stakeholders  
• Support Daily Operational Review meetings to report Asset Care performance and support actions to improve compliance and performance. 
• Action any non-completion of scheduled work to prioritise and reschedule 
• Continuously follow leader standard work and ensure weekly maintenance schedules optimise use of resource time and materials  
• Continuously drive for the next level of performance. Be bold on action planning and delivery  
• Develop team morale, recognise great performance and take timely action to address under performance where necessary 
• Ensure safety compliance Have appropriate behavioural safety conversations - comfortable challenging each other and visitors  
• Demonstrate self-awareness and own development plan  
• Commit to grow own capability and experience to the benefit of self, your team and Diageo.  
• Prepare and complete own P4G documentation. Be receptive to feedback and willing to learn from mistakes 
• Standard working hours are Monday to Friday, [07:00 – 16:00].
• The role may require occasional overtime, weekend work, or extended hours to support maintenance shutdowns, urgent repairs, or operational requirements.

Experience / skills required: 

Qualifications 

• City & Guilds / ONC / Polytechnic level qualification in either manufacturing, electrical, mechanical or instrumentation- Trade test.
• 3–5 years’ experience in maintenance planning or scheduling in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Experience using maintenance management systems such as SAP ERP/ S/4HANA.
• Strong planning, coordination, and communication skills.

Essential 

• Experienced in data analysis, use of applications (excel, word, etc.) and business systems (SAP, Harford, etc.) 
• Experienced in a manufacturing /maintenance environment, good communication skills both written and verbal, root cause analyses problems solving skills.
• Proficiency in maintenance management systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Excellence in Supply Chain 
• Understands and uses MMS principles tools and techniques.
• Understand ManEx and continues improvement tools.

Critical Skills Required

• Functional Skills
• Emergency preparedness and awareness
• Incident reporting and investigation
• Run The Business (RTB)
• ITF Governance
• 3 Tiers of Problem Solving
• Loss and Waste Analysis
• Team Work Fundamentals
• AM Principles

Technical Skills

• SAP PM scheduling and planning management
• Asset Management
• Procurement & Inventory Management
• People management
• Project Management
• Asset Care Best Practice
• Analyse SAP data input and output