Maintenance Planner

Knowledge and skills to create a job package from the work request
- Ensure the work package contains all 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, he obtains 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, and by issuing any orders for spares and other materials required on all planned maintenance activities.
- He obtains “quality feedback” from the execution group or from the Maintenance Work Co-ordinator to optimize his future planning.
- He archives the plans and data of repetitive jobs for future use.
- If required, attends 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 to execute the job in a safe manner. If required, he liaises with the SHE appointee.
- The Planner is responsible that, at the beginning of a year, a yearly maintenance schedule is drawn up. This schedule includes all planned (legal) maintenance inspections, planned production stops, planned maintenance shutdown, major (anticipated) maintenance repairs, etc.
- By compiling daily, weekly and monthly planned maintenance reports
- By monitoring and managing the balance between utilizing internal resources vs. labor hire and contractors, based on demand
- By monitoring, evaluating and analysing maintenance requests
- By being part of the team investigating breakdowns and major failures

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Knowledge and skills to create a job package from the work request
- Ensure the work package contains all 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, he obtains 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, and by issuing any orders for spares and other materials required on all planned maintenance activities.
- He obtains “quality feedback” from the execution group or from the Maintenance Work Co-ordinator to optimize his future planning.
- He archives the plans and data of repetitive jobs for future use.
- If required, attends 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 to execute the job in a safe manner. If required, he liaises with the SHE appointee.
- The Planner is responsible that, at the beginning of a year, a yearly maintenance schedule is drawn up. This schedule includes all planned (legal) maintenance inspections, planned production stops, planned maintenance shutdown, major (anticipated) maintenance repairs, etc.
- By compiling daily, weekly and monthly planned maintenance reports
- By monitoring and managing the balance between utilizing internal resources vs. labor hire and contractors, based on demand
- By monitoring, evaluating and analysing maintenance requests
- By being part of the team investigating breakdowns and major failures

**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)

**Competencies**:

- Proven planning & fault-finding ability.
- Must be computer literate
- Must be prepared to work overtime and standby duties with own transport as and when required
- Good communication skills
- Attention to detail