Title: Maintenance Specialist & Planner (Mechanical)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Grangemouth
Salary: Dependent on skills, qualifications and experience
Contract type: Permanent
ABOUT US
Are you in?
A truly global company, INEOS comprises of 36 businesses with 194 sites in 29 countries throughout the world. We also encompass a range of consumer brands and sports interests.
INEOS O&P UK Grangemouth is a petrochemicals centre of excellence. We are the largest manufacturing site in Scotland. We pride ourselves in offering a working environment that is friendly and welcoming, that offers employees true autonomy and empowerment and that enables everyone to achieve their goals and to have a fulfilling professional career with us.
Our aim, as always, is to find new, improved ways of doing things. Whether that’s through improving the energy efficiency of our plants, developing new ways of working or delivering on our net zero promises, we like to push boundaries and overcome challenges.
If you share our vision for a sustainable future; if you possess the skills and competencies to help deliver our net zero road map; if you want to play your part in the remarkable next step in the UK petrochemical sector, we’d like to hear from you.
ABOUT OUR OPPORTUNITY
The role of Maintenance Specialist & Planner (Mechanical) involves coordinating and planning maintenance and turnaround (TAR) activities across the Polymers asset.
Key responsibilities include delivering safe, efficient maintenance plans to meet site KPIs for safety, health, environment (SHE), costs, availability, reliability, and quality.
The role requires interaction with contractors, workshop supervisors, craftsmen, and Control of Work Teams, and includes supervising contractor on-site activities.
Key accountabilities
- Coordinate a 3-month rolling maintenance schedule and deliver a fully engineered 2-week plan optimized for safety, productivity, and cost-effectiveness.
- Plan and pre-engineer all maintenance tasks, ensuring risk assessments, method statements, work packs, materials, tools and SIPs resources are ready.
- Monitor progress against the schedule, address issues affecting scope, progress, quality, or cost, and maintain compliance with statutory and integrity requirements.
- Maintain accurate asset and work history data in Maximo for effective planning and reporting.
- Coach team members on Maximo and maintenance workflow processes.
- Input asset 3rd party requirements into the site-wide planning/scheduling network to optimize resource loading.
- Manage the weekly maintenance budget for services and materials, with monthly input into cost reports.
- Scope and estimate work, ensuring it is cost-effective and authorized according to agreed processes.
- Ensure full compliance with KPIs and timely completion of any statutory work.
ABOUT YOU
Required:
- A time-served maintenance background with strong communication, organizational, and networking skills.
- Be educated to HNC level in an engineering discipline or similar. In lieu of formal qualifications suitable relevant experience is required in a similar environment
- Proficient in Maximo, Primavera, and other scheduling tools, with a detailed understanding of maintenance workflows.
- Strong budgeting and cost-control knowledge, with a track record of successfully delivering projects such as plant outages and TARs.
- Ability to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, work under pressure, and take initiative in leading tasks beyond defined responsibilities.
- Flexible and willing to accommodate personal inconvenience to support both planned and unplanned work.
WHAT WE OFFER
- 34 days holiday (optional salary sacrifice to purchase up to 5 extra days)
- Benefits Platform – access to discounts on high street stores etc., Discounted Private Medical Insurance, Travel Insurance etc.
- Up to 20% Discretionary Bonus Opportunity
- Scottish Widows Contributory Pension including employer contributions
- Free On-site Gym
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced Maternity Leave
- Salary Sacrifice Car and Cycle to Work Scheme
- Ongoing Career Development
HOW TO APPLY
Application Process
Interested candidates should submit their CV via our website.
Pre-screen (If applicable)
Applicants with a successful CV may be invited to an online MS Teams or telephone call to further discuss the role, the organisation and your suitability.
Formal Interview
Successful applicants will then be invited to interview which will consist of behavioural and technical questions. For some roles the recruitment process may also include technical testing, behaviour questionnaires and/ or a delivering a presentation.
Provisional Offer
If you are selected as the preferred candidate you will receive a provisional offer which will be subject to a medical assessment and reference checks. Some roles may also require a criminality check.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during application, assessment and on-boarding stages. If you would like to discuss any adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process please contact opportunities.uk@ineos.com.
If you were referred by a permanent member of staff that currently works at INEOS O&P UK Grangemouth please email opportunities.uk@ineos.com confirming the position you applied for and the name of the employee that referred you. Please note the employee referral scheme is only applicable for permanent vacancies.