Maintenance Planner

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Supply

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities to maximize equipment reliability, minimize downtime, and ensure efficient utilization of maintenance resources. This role works closely with Production, Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance teams to develop detailed work plans, manage spare parts availability, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Your responsibilities

• Develop and maintain weekly, monthly, and annual maintenance schedules.
• Create detailed work orders, including labor requirements, materials, tools, permits, and safety requirements.
• Plan preventive maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance (PdM), corrective maintenance, and shutdown activities.
• Prioritize maintenance work based on equipment criticality, business impact, and operational requirements.
• Coordinate maintenance schedules with Production to minimize disruptions.
• Review and validate maintenance work requests.
• Ensure work orders contain complete technical information and standardized job plans.
• Monitor work order backlog and optimize work execution priorities.
• Track work completion status and ensure proper documentation in the CMMS.

The experience we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• Diploma holders with significant maintenance planning experience may also be considered.
• 3-5 years of experience in maintenance planning, maintenance supervision, reliability engineering, or related roles.
• Experience using CMMS systems such as SAP PM, Maximo, Infor EAM, or similar platforms.
• Basic to intermediate English communication skills.

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business Acumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Planning, Logistics Management.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.