Maintenance Planner

Overview:

We are PepsiCo
PepsiCo is proud to be one of the world's leading food and beverage companies.

Every day, we are dedicated to bringing our mission to create more smiles with every sip and every bite to life.

Our products are enjoyed more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.

Our portfolio — including Lay's, Doritos, Gatorade, Pepsi and Quaker — consists of many iconic brands that generate more than US $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales, helping to deliver more than US $70 billion in net revenue in 2020.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive.

Through PepsiCo Positive, we are charting a new course to drive positive action for the planet and people.

PepsiCo Positive is an end-to-end strategic business transformation with sustainability at the centre of how we will create growth and value by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change.

In South Africa (SA), you will find our products across the region at breakfast, lunch or dinner. At the gym or on the field. In the office or on the go.

We refresh, restore and rejuvenate our consumers all day, every day with our key brands including Simba, Lay's, Liqui Fruit and Bokomo range of cereals.

PepsiCo SA employs more than 13, 000 people across our three business divisions:
Bakeries, Grains, Foods, Fruit, Snacks, Juice & Beverages.

Responsibilities:

What we're looking for:

• Develop and manage the preventive maintenance programme for the unit
• Optimise the technical resource utilization
• Prepare the weekly budget spread sheet/track spend daily
• Develops and update maintenance program
• Create, verify & update maintenance and inspection schedules
• Plans major breakdown repairs
• Release planned work orders from SAP
• Review the work list and prioritise the adhocs
• Create Maintenance Day Plan and assign tasks to team members and contractors
• Run the premaintenance day meeting, communicate the plan to team members and distribute the maintenance works orders and control sheets to team leaders
• Review spares required and equipment availability and reserve where required
• Plan the availability of necessary resources (lines "specialist" tools, equipment suppliers or outsourced services) to ensure that the work gets done on time
• Conduct spares criticality assessment process to identify and action changes to the spares requirements
• Communicate progress against plan and reprioritised work to line of authority hourly
• Assess and manage the corrective work arising on maintenance days in conjunction with the Senior Technicians
• Conduct planned job observations on schedule duration
• Monitors and responds to Asset Care Indicators
• Provide feedback on running schedules, back log status and feedback received on execution of autonomous maintenance schedules
• Validate the integrity of the job card data and ensure repairs done captured on SAP
• Plan machine audits to restore equipment to standard or specification requirements
• Plan condition monitoring activities
• Chair the post maintenance day meeting
• Plan all annual shutdown tasks

Qualifications:

What will qualify you for the role

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering
• Minimum 5 years in a manufacturing industry preferably in FMCG manufacturing environment, out of which at least 3 years working in maintenance planning Working knowledge and proficiency in

SAP:
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• Problemsolving and diagnostics competency
• Advanced level
• Good communications skills
• Strong analytical thinking skills
• Strong problemsolving abilities
• Practical thinker
• Basic knowledge on food safety, hygiene, HSSE&S
• Able to work and deliver under pressure and tight timelines
• Able and willing to identify gaps in self and others to work on
• Treats everyone equal and is trustworthy
• Works in collaboration with others, from within and outside her/his department
• Gives clarity about expectations and follows and controls tasks to completion
• Is flexible and can adapt to and influence change well
• Is proactive and focuses on elimination over fixing issues

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