- Bonus scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Wellbeing Scheme, provided through Health Shield, giving every colleague – and their dependents – unlimited access to GPs and counselling, as well as cash back on a wide range of health and wellbeing treatment
- Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
- 24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support – access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
- Online savings- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more!
We're looking for an experienced Maintenance Planner to join our Engineering team at our Newmarket site. This is a key role responsible for coordinating and optimising maintenance activities across fixed and mobile plant, equipment, and facilities. You'll be instrumental in driving operational efficiency by developing and maintaining systems that support planned preventative maintenance (PPM), improving uptime, and ensuring legal and safety compliance.
This is a great opportunity to work in a fast-paced, hands-on manufacturing environment where continuous improvement, reliability, and safety are at the heart of everything we do.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Coordinating and planning all maintenance activities across the site to ensure minimal downtime and full compliance with H&S and engineering regulations.
- Developing and improving our Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to enhance scheduling, resource planning, and documentation.
- Supporting the Maintenance Manager and Assistant Manager with the execution of PPM strategies, shutdown planning, and work order management.
- Tracking and reporting key performance indicators including completed work orders, delays, breakdowns, and expenditures.
- Communicating effectively across departments to ensure machinery faults, spares requirements, and maintenance updates are shared promptly.
- Raising and monitoring purchase requisitions for spare parts and liaising with the Engineering Stores to ensure stock availability.
- Working closely with Operations and Engineering teams to identify and support opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Deputising for the Assistant Maintenance Manager or Stores & Purchasing Coordinator when required.
- Collaborating with external contractors and issuing permits to work as per company procedures.
You’ll be an organised, hands-on professional with solid experience in maintenance planning in a manufacturing or processing environment. You are proactive, technically minded, and thrive in a role that combines strategic planning with practical execution.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Proven maintenance planning experience, ideally in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Experience with Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) systems and CMMS platforms.
- Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines.
- A proactive and analytical mindset with a keen eye for problem-solving and process improvement.
- A confident, approachable attitude with the ability to work cross-functionally and build strong working relationships.
- Good attention to detail and document control practices.
- A flexible approach and willingness to take on varied tasks as needed.
- A strong sense of responsibility and work ethic.
- The drive to deliver high standards and continuous improvement.
- Confidence in decision-making and learning from setbacks.
- Loyalty to the team and business, always willing to support others.
Apply today and become a valued part of our maintenance and engineering team.
Who we are:
Our purpose is to create a future where the materials we use don’t need to be extracted from the planet.’
At EMR, we give new life to unwanted materials. Every year, we recycle 10 million tonnes of metals and plastics, saving 19 million tonnes of carbon from entering the Earth’s atmosphere, diverting waste from landfill and protecting resources and habitats.
We couldn’t do any of this without our team members. In return for all they do, we do everything we can to create an environment of belonging, value, support and growth.
We’re proud to have achieved Great Place To Work status, but it’s about so much more than a badge. It’s about being recognised by our people for the continuous work we do to do better for them:
‘The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected.’
‘I’m encouraged to keep a healthy work-life balance so that I can be performing at my best.’
‘I’ve been supported every step of the way in my career progression.’
‘‘EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work.’
We couldn’t do any of this without our team members. In return for all they do, we do everything we can to create an environment of belonging, value, support and growth, underpinned by our Company values of We Care and We Do.
- We Care
- Integrity – our people are Respectful and Honest
- Trust – our people are Collaborative and Genuine
- We Do
- Accountable – our people are Determined and Responsible
- Innovative – our people have a Growth Mind-set and are Progressive
Recruitment Agencies
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