Maintenance Planner

Welcome to Hovis. We are the proud guardians of over 130 years of baking experience that make up our iconic and much-loved brand. We produce bread and bakery products created with Hovis goodness at the heart of each. We deliver around 1.3million loaves, every day of the week throughout the UK and Ireland, where we also make Mothers Pride and Ormo products. 

We are 2,800 people working within 8 bakeries, 1 flour mill, and 2 regional distribution centres across the UK. Our success is a result of the hard work of our people; they are experts in their field whether it’s baking, manufacturing, logistics, engineering, or the many departments within the central functions team based in our head office in High Wycombe. We are a values-led business and expect our colleagues to live, breathe, and embed Quality, Accountability, and Trust into their ways of working.

The Maintenance Coordinator at our Mitcham site ensures the safe and reliable operation of site plant and equipment by applying strong technical engineering knowledge to plan, prioritise, and coordinate all maintenance activities. The role builds and manages maintenance schedules, develops technically accurate work packs, and ensures that preventative, corrective, and regulatory tasks are fully prepared and executed to the required engineering standards. Acting as the central link between Engineering, Reliability, Operations, and contractors, the Maintenance Coordinator ensures maintenance work is properly scoped, risk assessed, resourced, and recorded driving equipment uptime, regulatory compliance, and long-term asset reliability.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience 

• Time served Engineer 
• SME for CMMS systems (IDhammar, SAP, Shire)
• Considerable knowledge and experience in manufacturing engineering
•  Experience in regulated maintenance environment
• NVQ level 2 in Engineering discipline
• Effective verbal & written communication skills
• Demonstrated experience of Permit to work systemsContractor Management
• Must be flexible with hours when required to meet the needs of the business
• Able to self-manage and prioritise own workload to satisfy commitments and meet agreed deadlines 

Why work for us and our benefits:

At Hovis, we understand the importance of looking after our colleagues, so we provide a variety of benefits in addition to their salaries. The benefits we provide at Hovis are as varied as the people who receive them but they are offered with the intention of creating value to them personally over and above their salaries

• There is a range of colleague benefits available, which individuals can select based on their needs.

• Our benefits scheme is called Hovis Choice, which offers a variety of savings and cashback offers on day to day living and much more including eyecare vouchers, and a healthcare scheme to suit everyone. It also includes our Cycle to Work scheme where you can obtain a brand new bike at a significant saving

• We offer competitive annual leave entitlement and flexibility where possible in order to create a healthy work-life balance

• We celebrate loyalty with our generous long service and colleague recognition schemes

• We offer three levels of pensions

Hovis values diversity and is committed to promoting equal opportunities in the workplace. Every job applicant, employee or worker will be treated fairly and equally with dignity and respect regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, social class, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, union membership, political opinion, sex, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.