Maintenance Planner

**GROW A GREAT CAREER WITH THE COMPANY THAT GROWS GREAT BRANDS**

**Why Join National Brands Limited (NBL)?**

- **Make an Impact**:Contribute to producing South Africa’s favourite Tea brands, influencing daily life.
- **Innovative Growth**:Be part of a forward-thinking environment that encourages product and process improvement.
- **Career Development**:Access a range of roles and growth opportunities at one of NBL’s 5 world-class facilities.
- **Collaborative Culture**:Work in a supportive, team-driven environment where your contributions matter.

**Unlock Your Potential** We’re looking for a passionate **Maintenance Planner** to join our **NBL Durban Tea** in **Durban, KwaZulu Natal**. This role serves as the hub from which all maintenance activities are planned, co-ordinated and executed. It is the custodian for the CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) and all work planning and control processes.

**Reporting Structure**:

- **Reports to**:Engineering Manager
- **Direct Reports**:1

**Key Areas of Impact**:

- Planning and co-ordination of maintenance activities
- Optimisation of maintenance tasks
- Assessment of Engineering workload requirements, liaison with Engineering 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 and Control business processes
- CMMS 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.
- Analyse 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 requisitioned spares to prevent any unnecessary “idle” time
- Involved in the periodic review of net working capital with input into the decision making to optimise
- Plays an active role in maintaining a satellite store
- Management of Shut interventions
- Involvement in site Capital, Repair and Maintenance Projects
- Manages and develop Data Capturer
- Oversee activities of Data Capturer or Artisans capturing information into the CMMS
- Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans on a daily basis

**What It Takes to Succeed**:
**Experience that set you up for success**:

- At least 10 years’ experience as Maintenance Planner
- Engineering Background as either a Mechanical, Electrical or Trade Tested Artisan

**Qualifications and Certifications that will contribute to your success**:

- Completed Tertiary qualification in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical or Electrical Trade Test
- NQF 5 Qualification in Maintenance Planning will be advantageous

**Additional Requirements that will enhance your impact for success**:

- Competency in Computerized Maintenance Management System (Shopware, Pragma, SAP, )
- MS Office package knowledge especially Projects is essential
- Plant Maintenance

**Take the Next Step with NBL