Maintenance Manager / Engineering Coordinator

Maintenance Planner / Engineering Co-coordinator/ Maintenance Co-ordinator (Asset Management Professional) with required for exciting opportunity to be responsible for managing maintenance processes for the selection, repair and sourcing of engineering parts. Working for a world leader my client employ over 23,000 people globally and have a number of leading brands.

The purpose of this role is for you to provide a service to support the customer`s maintenance engineering teams with the following:

– Specifying engineering parts and components for new engineering projects. You will be providing technical advice to maintenance engineering

– Identifying those critical spares that are required for the production lines to run smoothly and ensuring that they are available to engineering and reducing maintenance part duplication and obsolescence.
– Identify maintenance efficiencies and areas to improve inventory and production issues
– Identifying suppliers where electrical parts and components can be sourced and obtaining quotes and presenting them to Maintenance Manager
– Providing technical advice for maintenance engineering team for any parts that cannot be fixed on site as to whether they should be repaired off site or new parts should be purchased
– Carry out survey of plant to identify which a critical parts that if failed would result in production being effected
– Once critical parts are identified assess risk to plant by working with stores to carry out inventory check and recommend where there is duplication or risk.
– To investigate supplier performance of spares and identify key requirements to deliver value for money
– Building relationships with maintenance engineers and other engineering departments so that you are a trusted and invaluable resource to help support plant efficiency by providing a single point of contact for maintenance repairs and asset tracking.
– Providing migration, rationalisation and standardisation strategies to drive down MRO inventory, asset value.
– Work with client departments including plant management, maintenance, engineering, purchasing and distributors to identify and formulate efficiency plans for maintenance.
– Proposing engineering solutions that provide a cost saving to the customer and presenting to senior stakeholders

My client are a world leader in industrial automation and plant efficiency, I have recruited for them since 2005 and they are a superb business to work for offering support and development. 

As an Asset Management Professional you are likely to be working as an Electrical Project Engineer, Electrical Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Supervisor or similar. This position will give you the opportunity to have an autonomous role where you be responsible for delivering cost savings to the customer whilst adding value to the plant. You will have commercial responsibilities and be responsible for the profitable running of the account.

The successful candidate will:

– Have a maintenance background with knowledge of stores, MRO repair processes 
– Be personable, enthusiastic and adaptable 
– Have commercial acumen or interest to develop it
– Excellent electrical knowledge