Maintenance Coordinator

5 months ago


Durban, South Africa Huhtamaki Group Full time

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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.

We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.

Summary of the Job: To improve work force productivity and work quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning and coordination of labour, parts and material, and equipment access.

Job Responsibilities:

- Planning and co-ordination of maintenance activities.
- Optimization of maintenance tasks.
- Assessment of Maintenance requirements, liaison with maintenance department and Production stakeholders to ensure that maintenance plans are realistic, adequately resourced and plant downtime is appropriately and effectively planned.
- Ensures that all Job Cards are reviewed with the following in mind:

- Effective scope identified_
- Resources appropriately allocated_
- Durations are realistic and accurate_
- Spares and specialist tools required are available_
- Drives outage and Shutdown planning activities
- Facilitates daily and weekly work planning meetings with Maintenance, Operations, Stores and other supporting departments.
- Plays an active role in maintaining legal registers and driving compliance.
- Serves as the custodian for all Work Planning & Control business processes.
- Implement CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) implementation, optimization and management
- Develop cost and time estimates of maintenance work
- Drive the tracking of actual versus budget spend, with the identification of high risk spend areas
- Conduct detailed analysis into the cost of maintenance shuts.
- Periodically reviews existing schedules and task lists.
- Manage preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, which will include condition monitoring and other practices.
- Updating job cards and maintenance schedules based on OEM manuals, input from Maintenance teams and historical performance.
- Analyze machinery and component life cycles by identifying failure trends and making recommendations to improve maintenance strategies.
- Maintains appropriate records to permit the meaningful analysis and reporting of results and compiles reports from the CMMS.
- Ensure the availability of required spares to prevent any unnecessary “idle” time.
- Management of Shut interventions
- Involvement in site Capital and R&M Projects
- Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans daily
- Management of engineering inventory

Qualification and Experience:

- Grade 12/N3
- Trade Test Certificate/National diploma in Engineering (mandatory)
- Valid Driver’s licence (mandatory)
- Computer packages (mandatory)
- Maintenance Planner Qualification (NQF Level 5) (advantageous)
- Qualification in Project management (advantageous)
- Minimum of 3 years experience as a Maintenance Planner

Behavioural Skills and Abilities:

- Teamwork
- Analytical & adaptability
- Decision making & problem solving
- Energetic and physically fit
- Planning & organizing
- Stress tolerance

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