Job Title: Planner - Maintenance
Function: Distilling - Engineering
Location: Invergordon Distillery, Invergordon
Job Level: (Internal Reference Only) 3
Contract: Full Time / Maintenance - Monday to Thursday, 08:00am – 4:30pm & Friday, 08:00 – 14:00 (38 hours p/w) Flexible approach to this work pattern is required.
Travel within the UK will be required.
Date vacancy will close: 6th June 2025. Where we receive high numbers of applications we may close vacancies early. If you think this is the right opportunity for you please don't delay in applying!
Who we are:
Born in Glasgow, made in Scotland and enjoyed around the world. Whyte and Mackay is home to a collection of multi-award-winning global whisky brands led by The Dalmore, Fettercairn, Jura and Tamnavulin. Our mission is to be a driving force in whisky, renowned for building brands that stand-out. Enabled by our brilliant community of 700 colleagues, reaching across 16 countries and counting. We're led by our values, continuing to grow and invest and looking for great talent to join our brilliant community. Ready to hear more?
What the opportunity looks like:
Plan, schedule, prioritise, and coordinate maintenance activities across our 5 distilling sites. Develop and manage maintenance schedules, track work orders, and ensure that all maintenance tasks are completed efficiently and on time. Responsible for maintaining accurate records of maintenance activities, managing spare parts inventory, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards. Preparation and monitoring of project plans to assist the PM in ensuring they remain on schedule and budget.
- Liaise with Maintenance and Operations personnel and lead weekly scheduling meetings and produce detailed ‘this week - next week’ plan schedules for each site taking account of available resource.
- Review work tasks and liaise with maintenance and operational teams to determine durations and resources required.
- Ensure that all Safety and Environmentally Critical tasks are planned and executed to maintain 100% compliance.
- Ensure that ‘This week – Next week’ maintenance schedules are distributed in a timely manner to allow maintenance team to prepare.
- Maintain accurate records and ensure that they are stored on a logical manner and accessible to those who require access.
Skills and experience that will help you be a success:
For this role we're looking for:
- Maintenance planning experience required, preferably in a production or manufacturing role.
- Relevant professional experience in Engineering or Supply Chain, preferably Drinks, FMCG or Oil & Gas industry.
- Experience of dealing with multiple stakeholders and able to communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly analytical and numerate with first-rate attention to detail.
- Ability to work on many pressing priorities at the same time with calm and resolution.
We believe that everyone has the potential for growth in our roles! You may feel you don't tick every box for this role, but if you believe you have relevant experiences that could help you succeed we'd much rather you apply rather than rule yourself out based on any self-limiting beliefs!
Why join us:
We offer a competitive salary, bonus package, life assurance, competitive pension, excellent product allowance, 35 days annual leave, plus enhanced family friendly policies.
Our application process:
If you like what you’ve read and want to explore this opportunity further, please apply before the closing date listed at the top of the advert.
Our team read each and every application, therefore you'll hear back from us in due course.
Should you require any adjustments to our recruitment process to help you be at your best then please contact us at
[email protected] and we'll do what we can to support.
