I&e Maintenance Planner

Description:

I&E Maintenance Planner

CF Fertilisers UK Limited, a subsidiary of the multinational group CF Holdings, a leading Fortune 500 Company, and recognised in 2024 by Forbes in the World’s Best Employer directory; We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic I&E Maintenance Planner. This is an exceptional opportunity to join our dynamic Maintenance team where you will take on a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our site facilities and equipment through strategic planning and scheduling of maintenance activities.

At CF Industries, our mission is to provide clean energy to feed and fuel the world sustainably. Our employees are focused on safe and reliable operations, environmental stewardship, and disciplined capital and corporate management. By joining CF, you will be part of a team that brings their varied experiences, wide-ranging knowledge, and diverse talents together to deliver important work and you’ll be able to pursue complex, exciting opportunities that help you continue to grow and achieve your potential in different areas. You’ll take pride in working for a company that lives its values and where you can be yourself at work, as part of an authentic team that encourages you to share your views and opinions.

Here at CF Fertilisers UK Limited we are proud to be recognised as the Best Place to Work at the North East Business Awards 2025. This prestigious honour reflects our ongoing commitment to fostering an inclusive, supportive engaging workforce culture. From apprenticeships and training programmes to career development, employee engagement, and equal opportunity initiatives, we are dedicated to helping our people thrive both personally and professionally.

As I&E Maintenance Planner you will play a critical role in coordinating and scheduling maintenance activities to ensure optimal equipment performance and minimal production downtime. Accountabilities include developing preventive maintenance plans, managing work orders, tracking equipment history, and ensuring compliance with safety and operational standards; whilst collaboratively working with maintenance technicians and production teams to allocate resources efficiently and prioritise tasks based on urgency and impact.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes, bonus scheme, exceptional pension scheme contribution and life assurance, employee assistance programme and multiple high quality health care schemes.

CF Fertilisers UK Limited is an Equal Opportunities, Affirmative Action employer. We support and enable each other to deliver and succeed placing equal value on all individual perspectives. Embracing a diverse and inclusive culture are at the forefront of our company values.

We Do It Right - We Do It Well - We Execute as a Team, and We Take a Long-Term View.

In this role you are accountable for

EHSQ
 

• Ensuring all maintenance tasks are planned in accordance with company and statutory, environmental, health and safety standards to ensure provision of a safe working environment including the Company’s obligations under COMAH legislation.
   

Planning
 

• Diagnosing the cause of equipment problems as described in work requests.
• Scoping of maintenance activities and production of job packs, (in iplan), including but not limited to:
• Task sequence.
• Labour and resource requirements.
• Isolation requirements.
• Access arrangements e.g. scaffolding, MEWP etc.
• Lifting arrangements e.g. crane lifting plan etc.
• Risk assessment, Method statement (RAMS) including Specific hazard information such as confined space, vessel entry, first line break etc.
• Permit to Work request.
• Checking materials, spares, tools and equipment are available, and work orders are ready to execute.
• Managing the backlog of outstanding, unplanned work.
• To utilise the computerised maintenance management system in accordance with business maintenance policy.
• To prepare, collate, review and file reports of work done, equipment technical drawings, data and settings, spares descriptions and hierarchy in electronic and paper filing systems so that historical data is retained, recommendations for the future are made and evidence of work done is available for audit.
• To update job packs with feedback from the Maintenance Execution team of improvements in work task preparation (spares, tools, requirements etc.) and execution (methods, time estimates etc.) as a means to continuously improve.
• Identify opportunistic/self-plan defects which don’t require input from the planning team. Effectively allowing work to go straight to schedule execution.