Engineering Planner

At Syngenta our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers success. To support this mission Syngentas Hiring Team is seeking an Onsite Engineering Planner in Huddersfield UK. 

Role Overview

Responsible for planning scoping and delivering detailed work packages for routine maintenance and planned outages across electrical instrumentation mechanical and civil disciplines. The role requires regular attendance at the job face to gather accurate first-hand information that underpins well-defined and executable job scopes. Acting as the key link between engineering operations and contractors the post holder ensures all activities are fully scoped resourced ahead of scheduling scheduled and aligned with site safety and production requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Attend the job face across electrical instrumentation mechanical and civil disciplines to gather first-hand information and develop accurate complete job scopes.
• Prepare detailed work packages including task sequences resource plans materials drawings isolation plans risk assessments and permit requirements.
• Build and maintain master plan for routine maintenance (3-month rolling schedule) and planned outages identifying critical path activities and cross-functional dependencies.
• Coordinate with Asset Engineers Operations Project teams and Contractors to integrate maintenance cleanout and commissioning activities through to execution.
• Manage CMMS data (SAP) maintaining accurate work orders task lists equipment histories and resource requirements.
• Lead weekly scheduling meetings and report on schedule adherence critical paths and resource utilisation.
• Liaise with stores and procurement to ensure parts consumables and specialist tools are available ahead of scheduled work.
• Review job plans post-execution driving continuous improvement in planning quality and contributing to reliability programmes.

Qualifications :

• Minimum 5 years experience in maintenance planning or engineering within chemical manufacturing petrochemical oil & gas pharmaceutical or a heavy process industry.
• Proven experience planning across at least two of the following disciplines: electrical instrumentation mechanical or civil engineering.
• Demonstrated experience in shutdown turnaround or outage planning including the development of detailed job lists execution schedules and work packages.
• Proven proficiency in CMMS systems specifically SAP Plant Maintenance including work order management equipment history and task list maintenance.
• Strong working knowledge of scheduling methodologies and tools (e.g. Microsoft Project Primavera P6 Prometheus).
• Familiarity with engineering documentation such as P&IDs equipment drawings and specifications.
• Knowledge of permit-to-work systems risk assessment processes and site safety procedures.
• Experience in stakeholder management across multiple functions
• Highly organised able to manage multiple scopes simultaneously under time pressure.
• HNC/HND in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent demonstrable experience.

Additional Information :

At the Huddersfield Manufacturing Centre we make important Crop Protection products that are used in over 120 countries worldwide. These products help our growers to meet the ever-increasing demand for food feed and fuel and our talented & dedicated teams make this possible. The Huddersfield team is proactive driven and friendly with a strong emphasis on diversity equality and inclusion. We work cross functionally to get the job done!

What We Offer

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members.
• Extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme bonus scheme private medical & life insurance.
• Up to 31.5 days annual holiday plus 8 UK bank holidays.
• 36-hour working week.

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time