Maintenance Planner

Job Title Maintenance Planner | Location Forest Gate

As our next Maintenance Planner, you'll need to be intelligent and resourceful as you’ll be playing a significant part in the planning and scheduling of maintenance activities, working in-toe with the maintenance manager and reliability manager to ensure the smooth running of the factory machinery, keeping downtime to a minimum.

To excel in this role, you must have the capability to working with a team of engineers, you’ll be responsible for planning and scheduling of maintenance and promoting a Continuous Improvement culture.

You’re not the type to be unadaptable. The role isn’t for someone who lacks a creative instinct. In this role you will have the understanding that positive planned maintenance activities will save time and money.

As a Maintenance Planner, you are quality-focused and trust in strong processes and procedures to reduce downtime. Your remit is to lead all planned maintenance activities and improvements within the engineering department.

The Key Requirements...

• Having worked in a maintenance planner role previously within a fast-paced, hazardous or challenge manufacturing environment

• To have had previous experience as a hands-on maintenance engineer earlier in your career

At Hovis, we’re proud of the quality of our culture.

Here at Hovis, our mission is to put a smile on people's faces by expert baking and investing in our people. We make and deliver bakery products. Our goal is to continue to grow into different areas and create more opportunities.

Joining Hovis, you’ll be part of a business giving back to the local communities and foodbanks. There is an opportunity to progress higher within the business.

This is an opportunity for further opportunities here at Hovis are always open to all. People stay with our business because of the quality of our culture.

Benefits baked in

All colleagues can choose from a wide range of benefits, here’s a top crust taster of what we offer:

• Competitive annual leave and flexibility where possible for a healthy work-life balance and recharge your batteries.

• Three levels of pension schemes to suit your needs.

• Aviva DigiCare+ Workplace App includes annual health checks, digital GP consultations, nutritional advice, and much more.

• Hovis Choice benefits platform for everyday savings, cashback and much more.

• Free on-site parking.

At Hovis, we believe in embracing diversity and creating a welcoming workplace for everyone. Whether you're applying for a job or already part of our team, we promise to treat you with fairness, respect, and dignity. You will be valued and included here at Hovis. Does this sound like the right environment for you? If so, we would love to hear from you.

To find out more about Hovis please visit our website and social media channels hovis.co.uk