Assistant Maintenance Planner

**AVI Ltd. **is known for its leading household brands across many categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.

**NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED** operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.

An exciting opportunity exists for a Assistant Maintenance Planner** **at **NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Westmead, Biscuits Factory**. The purpose of the role is to provide support to the Maintenance Planning function and ensure that all maintenance activities are effectively planned, coordinated and executed.

**Line Manager**: Maintenance Planner

**Job Specification**:
**Key Performance Areas**:

- Planning and coordinating daily maintenance activities, including adhoc tasks
- Assist with the generation and updating of the weekly maintenance plan
- Support Engineering team - Safety (LOTO, PTW, SOP’s) & Housekeeping
- Schedule and allocate PM schedules to resources on CMMS, then compile a pre-approved list and send it for approval
- Prepare, compile and update data for Weekly Score Card
- Perform master data - Updating of PM schedules as per management
- Follow up with completed projects, then add new components on the system
- Create PR’s for: Electrical, Services, Process, Safety, Mechanical, Stores & Projects department (SAP)
- Perform general maintenance related administrative tasks as stipulated by the Maintenance Planner
- Support maintenance activities, including assisting with allocation of resources for breakdown and planned activities
- Ensure ongoing communication with Engineering Team Leaders, Production Managers and Production Planners.
- Receive instructions for consumable orders from Foremen, complete order form/s and obtain approval of the Maintenance Planner or relevant other in his/her absence
- Ensures that all Job Cards are reviewed
- Assist with the development of cost and time estimates of maintenance work
- Assist with the tracking of actual versus budget spend, with the identification of high risk spend areas
- Assist with the analysis into the cost of maintenance shuts
- Support maintenance and budget control initiatives
- Provides support for CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) - implementation, optimization and management
- Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans on a daily basis.
- Update all GMP findings that need to be up-loaded to job cards
- Work closely with engineering stores personnel to control spares availability for planned work
- Report on the effective execution of weekly maintenance
- Analysis and interpretation of maintenance history and report findings to Maintenance Planner
- Generate weekly maintenance report per plant - Feedback on completion rates
- Attend to Audits with required reports on a yearly basis
- Condition monitoring reports that require PM schedules to be up loading or re structured
- Complete appropriate documentation relating to various maintenance job requests and spares requirements
- Prepare templates and upload new requirements discussed in the Production Meeting held every morning and accordingly discuss with the concerned supervisor relating to documents required
- Draft reports based on data compiled and computed following prescribed formats
- Report on schedule compliance, preventative and reactive
- Engineering contractor safety - compliance to NBL specifications
- Statutory maintenance compliance
- Ensure compliance to statutory and legal schedules by proper scheduling
- Adhere and comply with set SHE policies, programs, practices, safety standards and regulations
- Ensure Job cards have all the relevant safety requirements stipulated including conducting of a risk assessment prior to starting any job or task and take preventative measures
- Compile and record production data for purposes of quality control and other aspects of production

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Experience**:

- 3 years' experience in maintenance planning
- 3 years’ experience within a high speed manufacturing environment

**Qualifications**:

- Grade 12
- A completed course in maintenance planning practices would be an added advantage
- N6/T3/S4 diploma or equivalent in an Engineering field would be advantageous
- Engineering field is not a requirement, but would be an advantage
- In possession of a recognized trade test as a Fitter or Millwright with a recognised institution / something equivalent to BTech.

**Additional Requirements**:

- Further Courses, certifications, professional affiliations (Microsoft Projects)
- Competency in computerized maintenance management system (Shopware, Pragma, SAP, etc.).
- MS Projects is essent