Maintenance Planner

2 weeks ago


Durban, South Africa Tower Group Full time

**MAINTENANCE PLANNER**
- FIXED TERM CONTRACT - 4 MONTHS (MAY - AUGUST 2024)_

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**MAIN JOB PURPOSE**

The main objective of this position is to provide expertise in the Production facility to ensure the daily operations of this department to achieve the targets of safety, quality, on time delivery, cost and morale as set out by the company.

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED**

National certificate/diploma in Engineering or maintenance related field.

**MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**

Preferably 3 or more years Planner Experience

**COMPETENCIES**

Good communication skills, technical knowledge of moulding plant and paint plant

**KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Principle contact and liaison between the maintenance department and operation planning. They ensure the area, department, or facility in which they are assigned receive professional maintenance service in a timely manner to ensure high equipment availability and performance.
- Review all planned work requests from assigned areas and determine validity and accuracy of information and engage the appropriate resources to set a preliminary priority.
- Reviews work request for accuracy and clarity: clear scope of work, realistic completion date, proper lead times, correct equipment identification, proper authorization, and discuss details with originator of the work.
- Identifies work requiring engineering design and reviews it with Maintenance Manager.
- Escalates issues to the Maintenance Manager for work which does not appear to be valid or costly.
- Review the work to be performed and determine the best way to accomplish the work. They will consult with Supervisors, Originator, Production Supervisors, Planner and Stores as necessary.
- Obtain and organize all information required for the crafts to perform the work: drawings, vendor manual, supplemental instructional materials, special procedures, and other file material which is appropriate. Supplement this information by preparing any additional sketches, drawings, diagrams, notes, or any instructional material which will clarify the work to be performed.
- Identifies and secures all parts and material required to complete the work by providing stores with a Bill of Material for the work order and any special kitting instructions.
- Work with Stores to manage spare part usage to maximize turns but minimize risk of using critical spares.
- Approach all aspect of the work being performed with safety as the highest priority.
- Provide job estimates based on craft or skills required, sequence required, and number required.
- Determine and identify any vendor delivered service for the work order. (i.e., contract vibration service or alignment service)
- Provide a total cost estimate for the work to be performed: labour, material, and outside.
- Manage the status of work control and backlog for work order submission to work order completion. Status may include waiting for planning, waiting parts, ready to schedule, scheduled, etc.
- Verifies all material, information, tools, and Labour are available prior to scheduling.
- Works with Maintenance Manager, Shift Managers, Supervisors to determine resource availability and work to level the work force.
- Develops a preliminary workforce schedule by crew ensuring all skills requirement and
- resource availability is met.
- Actively participate in scheduling meetings with operation partners to finalize priority of work orders, optimum downtime windows, and necessary lead times.
- Finalize the Maintenance resource schedule based on agreed plan with production.
- Follow up and communicates schedule to all resources: maintenance, production, outside services, stores, and engineering.
- Issue scheduled work orders with job plan packets to Shift Managers.
- Follow up with Shift Managers to ensure that completed work turned in with improvement comments in a timely fashion.
- Updates all schedules as required for the files.
- Manage a backlog of work orders which require major or significant portion of the facility to be shutdown.
- Continuously improves the job estimate, planning and scheduling by receiving feedback from maintenance supervisors, maintenance leads, production supervisors, engineers, and production planners.
- Keep accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provide timely reports.
- Maintenance technical training, evaluation, and support
- TPM implementation and training of production and maintenance personnel
- Spares inventory, optimization and minimize obsolescence.
- Equipment history / data analysis / root cause analysis and improve production processes.
- MTBR, MTTR, MTBF, OEE, Plant Availability reports
- Maintenance Management reports, reporting, presentations
- SHE Management
- Maintenance budget reporting highlighting


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