Job Description

Job Title: Maintenance Planner

Location: High Post, Salisbury

Salary: \xc2\xa332,000 to \xc2\xa338,000

Job Type: Full time \xe2\x80\x93 37.5 hour week (Mon to Fri \xe2\x80\x93 with Fri half day)

Chemring Countermeasures is a world leading and innovative company, designing and developing countermeasure solutions to armed forces throughout the world. We are part of the Chemring Group of companies and have a solid global infrastructure, which also helps us to thrive.

About the role:

We are currently looking for a Maintenance Planner to join our Maintenance Department. This opportunity will offer significant training and the ability to contribute to making a difference as we go through our site transformation plan.

The aim of the role:

To develop and maintain the planned maintenance system to ensure all building, plant, and equipment is maintained to a safe and reliable operating state.

Schedule and forecast resource availability against predicted workload for all routine maintenance tasks and shutdown periods

Continuous improvement of the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

Responsibilities of the role will include, but not limited to:

• To ensure their own health, safety and welfare and the safety of all other persons who may be affected by their activities.
• Lead maintenance planning meetings with customers and support functions.
• Track maintenance tasks and provide weekly reports on a suite of KPIs.
• Daily review of CMMS tasks, both reactive and proactive, and allocation to maintenance teams.
• Co-ordinate access to buildings, plant, and equipment in liaison with Production teams.
• Monitor conformance with regulatory compliance inspection schedule.
• Organise maintenance kits alongside planned maintenance requirements.
• Review maintenance activity and schedule follow-up work.
• Manage emerging Work Orders to prioritise alongside routine maintenance activity
• Conduct routine audits and process assurance of CMMS inputs and outputs

Person Specification:

• NVQ3 \xe2\x80\x93 An engineering discipline, preferably maintenance focussed
• Permitted to work in the UK
• Full driving licence
• 4 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in recognised trade
• Proven experience in CMMS software
• IT Skills (esp. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

About Chemring Countermeasures:

Chemring Countermeasures has a culture built on our values of Safety, Excellence and Innovation. We continue our investment in the very best people to contribute to our delivery of highly reliable solutions. We are seeking individuals who are not only of the highest calibre for today\xe2\x80\x99s business but have the capability to perform at even higher standards to meet the needs of tomorrow\xe2\x80\x99s threats facing our armed forces.

We have more than 50 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience at the forefront of Radio Frequency (RF) and Infrared (IR) expendable decoy research, design and manufacture, we operate at the leading edge of expendable countermeasure technology.

Armed Forces Covenant

We are proud to support the armed forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. We recognise the value that Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reserves, Veterans, Uniformed Cadet Instructors and Service Families contribute to our business and the United Kingdom.

Please Note:

Chemring CM is an Equal Opportunities and Age Positive Employer however candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to be considered for this role.

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