Maintenance Planner

Job Introduction

Maintenance Planner

Location: Kinsale, Co. Cork
 Salary: €60,000 - €66,000 plus Sodexo Benefits and Health Care
 Contract Type: Full-Time | Permanent

About the Role
 We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Maintenance Planner to join our Technical Services team at the Eli Lilly Kinsale site. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the planning, coordination, and delivery of technical maintenance activities within a highly regulated environment.

As a Maintenance Planner, you’ll support the asset management strategy and ensure efficient service delivery for building and equipment maintenance. You’ll work closely with internal teams, contractors, and suppliers to ensure all work is carried out safely, efficiently, and in compliance with site, company, and statutory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate all technical maintenance activities using the Maximo/GMARS CMMS system.
• Ensure compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) standards, including Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) and supplier RAMS.
• Liaise with suppliers and contractors, ensuring site access, permits, and safety documentation are in place.
• Review and assess technical reports, identifying required remedial actions and raising quotations where necessary.
• Maintain structured records including POs, qualification documents, service level agreements, and maintenance reports.
• Support asset lifecycle management and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Assist with budget control, risk management, and performance monitoring.
• Drive compliance with HSE, GxP, and client standards through proactive site engagement and audit readiness.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in maintenance planning or technical service coordination, ideally within a regulated industry.
• Strong understanding of HSE and risk management principles.
• Proficiency in Maximo or similar CMMS software.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Customer-focused mindset with the ability to build effective relationships across teams.
• Knowledge of facilities or asset management in a pharmaceutical or industrial setting (desirable).

Why Sodexo?:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater. 

Belong in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive in your own way. 

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support 
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo:

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater?

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