Inspection Maintenance Planner
Full Tim, Permanent
Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
We’re looking for an Inspection Maintenance Planner to join the INEOS Acetyls team based in Hull.We need highly motivated individuals who want to be part of our growing business.
INEOS Acetyls is a global chemicals business producing acetic acid and a range of derivatives across Europe, Asia and America. We’re part of INEOS - one of the largest petrochemical companies in the world, employing around 26,000 people across 194 sites in 29 countries.
You will be based at the Hull site, which is the largest producer of acetic acid, acetic anhydride and ethyl acetate in Europe. The products we produce are essential building blocks used in almost every industry, including renewable power, automotive, pharmaceuticals, coatings and textiles.
Hull is also home to the business's global Technology Development and Support Team and is based on the 370-acre Saltend Chemicals Park - a cluster of world-class chemicals and renewable energy businesses at the heart of the UK's energy estuary.
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The opportunity
As the Inspection Maintenance Planner, you will ensure successful completion of maintenance activities through in-depth planning of maintenance activities. Focussing on critical jobs steps, checking of spares and estimation of durations for Inspection specific maintenance activities.
If you thrive on a challenge and are prepared to push yourself, then INEOS’ open and non-hierarchical approach to business will give you the opportunity to quickly develop your career. We value daily collaboration and teamwork, reaping the benefits of working on site/office based.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary annual bonus plan
- Generous contributory pension
- Life assurance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays with option to buy extra annual leave and flex 5 of these bank holidays
- Ongoing career development
- Wide range of benefits including discounted private medical insurance, health cash plans and high street discounts
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Online health and fitness hub for employees, plus friends and family
- Onsite Gym
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a wide range of support services including counselling, financial support, legal services – for employees and family.
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Volunteering opportunities
Key accountabilities
- Ensuring compliance with HSSE standards and expectations set through the INEOS Life Saving Rules and 20 Safety Principles.
- Set example on HSSE responsibilities with all teams with which they interact.
- Deliver work in line with the agreed maintenance planning processes / workflow, developing cross discipline team capability to deliver appropriate quality work specifications into the schedule, and ultimately the field.
- Work with Operations, Asset teams, Engineering Integrity and Projects to ensure high quality work identification and specification and assigning the correct priority to the work to be completed.
- Specify safe and appropriate maintenance within the bounds set by the various budget holders and maintenance strategies.
- Monitor, manage and prioritise action on the list of notifications requiring review in their area of responsibility, including manually raised notifications but pre-dominantly system generated inspection recommendations.
- Plan all repair and maintenance work in SAP to allow failure reporting and maintenance costs to be targeted at the appropriate level.
- Engage with the TAR and If-Down-Do work processes to ensure the appropriate management of all work requests.
- Generate the Permit Request for complex or significant multi-trade tasks, since the SAP Maintenance Order operations form the initial part of the Method Statement and Risk Assessment.
- Identify the necessary permit requirements and other approvals (specialist lift plans etc) as discrete operations in the Maintenance Order, to allow visibility of required work to all teams.
- Identify, specify and create purchase requisition of spares necessary to carry out the job.
- Ensure any changes to spares requirements are reviewed with the Asset Team Discipline Engineers, following Management of Change where necessary.
- Escalate technical support, if required, through the line (from Technician to Supervisor, to Maintenance Planner and to Asset Engineer if necessary).
- Define hold points, punch out requirements and post-commissioning checks in the Maintenance Order operations, and carry our punch out activities where required.
- Monitor work raised by their planner group requiring TECO, through engagement with the schedule.
- Identify repeatable work and common templates which would assist with efficient generation of Maintenance Order planning tasks. Draft these in an excel template and work with the Systems Engineers to have them added to the SAP libraries. Communicate the addition of these task lists with their teams and ensure duplicates are not requested.
- Support the key cross-team interactions in the areas of CoW, safety, and maintenance systems, to ensure all development work and CI opportunities are aligned in support of the maintenance model.
- Delegate for the Maintenance Supervisors as required to cover holidays or sickness leave.
About you
We are looking for someone with a Level 3 Apprenticeship in the Mechanical Engineering Disciplines, inclusive of Fabrication and/or HNC in Mechanical Engineering discipline.
The successful candidate will be experienced in using SAP to plan Maintenance activities and will have experience with equipment typically used in the Petrochemical/ Oil and Gas industries.
You will also have experience working in a Maintenance, Turnaround or Projects planning process and will have experience with the safety requirements of work working on a COMAH regulated site.
An understanding of the statutory requirements of inspection tasks and inspection recommendations is essential and you will be comfortable with a strong safety-first/ speak-up culture.
Strong attention to detail when planning activities is also key to this role as well as being a good communicator and collaborative worker with the ability to lead teams in maintenance activities.