Maintenance Planner

**Responsibilities**
- Development of appropriate routine maintenance schedules
- Main Custodian of all Engineering documentation and the Engineering Library to ensure accurate and efficient information retrieval.
- Communicate and train maintenance and production personnel in the maintenance procedures.
- Integration of maintenance activities with production plans.
- Integration of maintenance activities with production boil-outs.
- Forward planning of manpower and materials for planned work and ensuring that those resources are marshalled in readiness.
- Accurate estimation of maintenance work in relation to duration, priority, skills requirements, spares, special tools and equipment, specialist services, and identification of appropriate material requirements.
- Estimation and arranging of contract labour to supplement existing resources to meet maintenance loads.
- Monitoring of maintenance operating system KPI’s, and trends and define maintenance performance measures.
- Identification of critical equipment and spares.
- Implementation of an effective AIB maintenance program.
- Implementation of an effective safety and environmental maintenance program.
- Regular scheduled task reviews and update.
- Auditing of task completion.
- Analyse major equipment losses and breakdowns.
- Maintain plant Inventory records and machine histories and machine numbering
- Propose improvement recommendations.

**Qualifications**
- Qualified artisan with at least N5 qualification.
- Subject Matter Expert in CMMS Software, particularly SAP
- Minimum 5 years maintenance experience in the FMCG environment.
- Minimum 3 within Maintenance Planning
- Strong knowledge of engineering concepts, including electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems
- Ability to interpret blueprints, specifications and schematics
- Effective interpersonal and written communication skills
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task effectively
- Excellent organizational and prioritization skills
- Technical abilities to resolve complex engineering plant breakdowns
- Ability to read maintenance manuals and Engineering Drawings (P&IDs, SLDs, Isometric, etc)

**“PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer in line with the Employment Equity Act"