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Maintenance Planner

About Us

GKN Automotive is the market leader in conventional, all-wheel and electrified drive systems and solutions. With a comprehensive global footprint, we design, develop, manufacture, and integrate an extensive range of driveline technologies for over 90% of the world’s car manufacturers.

Summary Position

We are seeking a proactive and analytical **Maintenance Planner** to join our operations team. This role focuses on planning and optimizing preventive and corrective maintenance activities to ensure plant reliability and minimize production downtime. You will be responsible for:

+ Creating and adjusting maintenance schedules for equipment overhauls and inspections

+ Collaborating with engineering staff to adapt plans to changing conditions

+ Analyzing maintenance records and performance data to drive improvements

+ Managing maintenance documentation and ensuring accurate service history

+ Tracking the movement and status of capital equipment and components

+ Reporting maintenance performance visually for easy stakeholder access

This position blends technical insight with organizational skills and problem-solving to support operational excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Experience in offshore or industrial plant maintenance planning

+ Familiarity with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)

+ Knowledge of asset management and inventory tracking tools

+ Exposure to project assurance or quality review processes

Required Qualifications

+ Post-secondary technical education (non-tertiary)

+ 7 to 12 months of hands-on experience in maintenance planning or analysis

+ Ability to collect, organize, and analyze operational data

+ Understanding of health, safety, and environmental regulations and compliance

**Position Details** As a Maintenance Planner / Analyst, you will coordinate repair and construction activities across sites to meet time, cost, and quality standards. You'll interpret data, resolve internal queries, maintain documentation, and support project assurance activities. You'll play a key role in identifying non-compliance, troubleshooting equipment, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.

Success in this role relies on strong verbal communication, planning, and a drive to deliver with urgency and accountability. You should be comfortable navigating complex organizational dynamics, taking initiative, and building personal capability through training and self-development. Your actions will directly support asset reliability, efficient maintenance execution, and organizational goals.

GKN Automotive is the market leader in conventional, all-wheel and electrified drive systems and solutions. With a comprehensive global footprint, we design, develop, manufacture and integrate an extensive range of driveline technologies for over 90% of the world’s car manufacturers. As a global engineering company, innovation is what differentiates us from our competitors and is central to our success. A balance of cultures, ethnicities and genders help bring new ideas and creativity to GKN Automotive. We need people of different backgrounds, with different skills and perspectives to spark originality, imagination and creativeness in our teams around the world. GKN Automotive is an equal opportunity employer. We treat all our employees and applicants fairly and are committed to ensuring that there is no discrimination or harassment against any employee or qualified applicant on the grounds of age, race, creed, colour, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process. Please contact us to request any such accommodation.

GKN Driveline provides equal employment and affirmative action opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, pregnancy, or disability.