Maintenance Planner

**Overview**
- Develop and execute maintenance plans that ensure safe and efficient execution of routine maintenance work
- Establish standard job plans for repetitive maintenance tasks
- Lead legal compliance of maintenance operations

**Requirements**:
**Background/experience**
- Trade Tested Artisan (Mechanical/ Electrical/ Instrumentation) with 2 to 4 years’ post Apprenticeship Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with 2 to 4 years’ related experience
- SAP PM Maintenance Planning experience
- Administrative and Quality Systems experience an advantage

**Specific job skills**
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of maintenance processes and proper use of the work order system, planning and scheduling
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, standards and compliance requirements
- Adequate craft knowledge and skill to accurately estimate resources
- Advanced technical background in Good Engineering Practices
- Ability to interpret and implement policies, processes and objectives

**Competencies**
- Interrogating Information
- Meeting Deadlines
- Finalising Outputs
- Maintaining Accuracy

**Responsibilities**

Planning and Operational Support
- Optimise and facilitate implementation of current processes
- Identify gaps in current policies and procedures
- Propose changes or improvements to processes, tools, techniques

Maintenance Planning
- Plan short term maintenance strategies
- Develop detailed job plans that insure safe and efficient execution of all maintenance jobs
- Manage maintenance work notifications and work order backlogs
- Cordinate with production to ensure job plans meet timing requirements
- Forward ready to schedule jobs to Maintenance Scheduler
- Manage and report on maintenance work and associated costs
- Recommend, review and implement new and existing PPM schedules
- Develop, maintain and update facility and equipment registers
- Document machine breakdown history and associated costs
- Analyse maintenance trends and machine/ equipment deviations, and recommend improvements to mitigate any risk
- Prepare shut-down plans for planned maintenance in collaboration with relevant departments
- Communicate deviations to shut-down plan on the day
- Analyse and report on spares for critical and/ or stores items
- Follow management of change process for new materials for job completion to ensure risks are properly controlled
- Create purchase orders for required components not in stock
- Set up planning system and reports
- Monitor condition of equipment and machines
- Plan statutory inspections as per regulatory requirements
- Audit PPM schedules and job cards to assess adherence
- Build job plan library especially for high frequency jobs
- Reporting and record-keeping
- Maintain records of asset care documentation
- Consolidate information for reports on weekly/ monthly basis
- Analyse consolidated data and provide recommendations
- Compile detailed and standardised reports
- Monitor and control access to and set-up of electronic databases
- Retrieve supporting documentation and records to facilitate and support query resolution

Aspen fully subscribes to the principles of Employment Equity and will make decisions in line with this ethos.

**Closing Date: 9 February 2023