Fleet Maintenance Planner

Your future role:

The purpose of the Planning Manager role is to oversee the strategic development and execution of maintenance and planning schedules for a large fleet of Aventra Units. This position is pivotal in ensuring that all maintenance activities are meticulously scheduled, thereby guaranteeing optimal fleet performance and compliance with maintenance mileage tolerances.

We’ll look to you for:

Schedule Development: Produce a comprehensive daily maintenance schedule that encompasses all aspects of maintenance, including Exams, UAT, Wheel Turning, Defects, Modifications, and Overhauls for a 14-day outlook. Ensure all stakeholders have clear visibility into Alstom’s maintenance requirements.
Fleet Monitoring: Closely monitor the mileage and condition status of the fleet, proactively identifying defects and potential issues to mitigate downtime and optimize performance.
Resource and Material Planning: Strategically plan resources and materials to enhance depot efficiencies, ensuring all necessary components for overhaul and maintenance are available and well-managed.
Performance Review: Systematically review maintenance performance and processes, driving continuous improvement in service execution by fostering a culture of accountability and ownership within the team.
Stakeholder Liaison: Collaborate with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure that all planning initiatives align with organizational objectives, and deliver outcomes on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
Development of Tools and Processes: Establish and refine the governance processes, tools, and techniques needed to create a robust planning function, ensuring all elements driving fleet availability are captured, maintained, and utilized effectively.
Condition Status Reporting: Compile and maintain a comprehensive condition status of the fleet, utilizing this information to proactively manage workload, enhance planning execution, and provide insightful reports to customers.
Outstation and Train Diagram Management: Manage the planning and workload for outstation operations efficiently, ensuring the timely delivery of units to required locations as per train diagrams.

All about you:

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

Experience of complex planning roles on large projects.
Experience of use on various planning tools.
Experience of working to tight timescales.

Reward:

Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
Contribute to innovative projects
Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension).

What we offer:

We offer a highly competitive remuneration package, 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday. Contributed healthcare, life assurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local law.

As a ‘Disability Confident’ employer, we will interview all disabled job applicants who match the essential criteria of the job description or specification. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Apply by: 13th August.

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