SAP Planner

Position: SAP Planner - 2 roles

Duration: 12 months

Hours per week: 40 hours per week

Start Date: 11/2

Job Title: GMP Maintenance Planner – SAP PM & Calibration

Job Description: Our client is seeking an experienced Maintenance Planner with strong hands-on expertise in SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM), GMP maintenance planning, and calibration/metrology coordination to support maintenance activities across GMP and non-GMP manufacturing assets.

This role requires someone who can independently review maintenance requests, develop detailed work plans, and create fully defined, execution-ready work orders within SAP. The consultant will be responsible for planning preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance activities, preparing comprehensive job packages, and coordinating labor, materials, spare parts, equipment access, and contractor resources.

Responsibilities will also include supporting calibration and metrology activities, developing standardized maintenance task lists, and ensuring compliance with GMP requirements, SOPs, change control, LOTO, and safety procedures.

The ideal candidate will have experience supporting pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment, critical utilities, facilities, and infrastructure systems while collaborating closely with Maintenance, Engineering, Operations, Quality, Metrology, and Reliability teams.

Additional responsibilities include participating in equipment walkdowns, supporting shutdown and turnaround planning, maintaining accurate SAP maintenance records, and providing maintenance history to support equipment investigations, CAPAs, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Candidates with proven experience in GMP-regulated pharmaceutical or biotechnology environments who can independently manage maintenance planning activities and ensure work packages are technically accurate and execution-ready are strongly preferred.

Skills: SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM), SAP S/4HANA, GMP Maintenance Planning, CMMS, Work Order Planning, Preventive Maintenance (PM), Predictive Maintenance (PdM), Corrective Maintenance, Calibration Planning, Metrology, Equipment Maintenance, Asset Management, Maintenance Scheduling, Job Package Development, Task Lists, Spare Parts Management, Materials Planning, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, GMP Utilities, HVAC, P&IDs, SOPs, LOTO, Change Control, CAPA, Deviation Investigations, Root Cause Analysis, Reliability Engineering, Shutdown/Turnaround Planning, Maintenance Master Data, Equipment Walkdowns

Education: Experience outweighs degree; relevant experience in GMP maintenance planning, SAP PM, and pharmaceutical or biotechnology manufacturing is strongly preferred.