Maintenance Planner

Knowledge and skills to create a job package from the work request.
- Ensure the work package contains all relevant information about the required resources, i.e. labour, materials, equipment availability, services and works instructions to ensure that the work can be executed in a safe, effective and efficient manner
- If required, obtain technical input from the Engineering Manager or SME, i.e. technical advice, inspection plan, isometric-drawings(s), etc.
- Ensuring that spares and materials are always available before issuing work package.
- Obtain “quality feedback” from the execution group or from the maintenance work co-ordinator to optimize future planning.
- Archives the plans and data of repetitive jobs for future use.
- If required, attend daily maintenance schedule update meeting with engineers, gatekeeper and maintenance work co-ordinator. Decides together as a team which jobs to be included in the daily/weekly schedule
- Ensures that all SHE aspects are taken into account when planning a task. If required, liaise with the SHE appointee.
- The Planner is responsible for a yearly maintenance schedule. This schedule includes all planned (legal) maintenance inspections, planned production stops, planned maintenance shutdown, major (anticipated) maintenance repairs, etc.
- Compiling daily, weekly and monthly planned maintenance reports
- Monitoring and managing the balance between utilizing internal resources vs. labor hire and contractors, based on demand
- Monitoring, evaluating and analysing maintenance requests
- Being part of the team investigating breakdowns and major failures.
- Updating the plant maintenance resources and equipment schedule as a result of the failure investigations.
- Monitoring that the maintenance execution teams are adhering to the maintenance schedule.
- Managing the active list of work orders
- Any backlog should be recorded and also communicated to, Engineers, Maintenance Work Co-ordinator and Gatekeeper for action

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Matric
- N3 Technical qualification with trade test (essential)
- SAP PM and MM (desirable)
- Forklift, Overhead crane (desirable)
- Knowledge of technical spares (essential)
- Shutdown and ad hoc maintenance planning (essential)
- Experience in Shutdown and Maintenance planning (essential)
- Spares identification and planning (essential)
- MS Project (desirable)
- Minimum 2 years’ experience is a relevant role.