Current jobs related to Maintenance Planner - Potgietersrus - Epiroc AB

**About Epiroc**
Epiroc is a multinational company with a presence in 150 countries, which with innovative technology, develops and provides safe and state-of-the-art equipment, such as drilling machinery and construction tools for use in surface and underground mining. It also offers world-class after-sales services and solutions for automation, digitalization and electrification.

**Life at Epiroc**
By joining our team, you will be part of a group of knowledgeable and helpful colleagues who live by our core values: collaboration, commitment and innovation.
The work environment in the mining and construction industries presents unique and interesting challenges that you will not find in other industries.
Our culture is characterized by care for work-life balance, professional development, global professional opportunities, and an epic benefits package.

**Mission**:
To provide logistic support to the maintenance management of fixed plant mechanical and electrical equipment to ensure optimal plant availability and reliability, in order to achieve production targets.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Conducts inspections
- Maintains the safe work procedures register
- Creates team SHEC awareness
- Participates in the daily tool box meetings and monthly safety meetings to discuss and review mine wide SHE statistics, deviations, and general safety awareness issues within the department
- Undertakes own plant inspections and prepares reports, noting deviations, remedial action, completion dates, follow up etc., and submits to the Electrical and Maintenance Engineer.
- Coordinates the development of a common register for safe work procedures, maintains and updates the register, and disseminates controlled copies as part of the job package.
- Raises works orders to rectify any identified defects or takes necessary action to remedy defect
- Maintains an asset register, including the type and serial numbers, for the entire fixed plant, and updates as required
- Maintains a technical library of hard and soft copies of all OEM and other technical manuals and documents related to various fixed plant equipment.
- Creates a maintenance schedule and condition monitoring programme for all fixed plant equipment, based on OEM instructions, and adjusts maintenance schedules based on utilisation of a piece of equipment.
- Generates planned maintenance inspections and condition monitoring forms/job cards, specifying frequency (daily, weekly etc.) and what to check in each piece of equipment.
- Encourages innovations that add value to mining operation
- Generates maintenance schedules, including provisional shut down plan.
- Generates job cards for the shutdown plans and captures job card details into the system
- Verifies that inspections are undertaken as specified, by scrutinizing completed maintenance inspection forms, identifying deviations/errors, and following up with concerned party.
- Convenes provisional shut down meetings and advises on resource requirements and timing of the shut-down activities and all other pertinent issues, and issues finalised plan
- Oversees the shut-down with maintenance supervisors, and conducts a retrospect exercise, producing reports upon completion, specifying jobs completed and unfinished, with explanations for non-completion and discussing reports with concerned parties.
- Reviews the planned maintenance and condition monitoring system and documentation on an ongoing basis for appropriateness and effectiveness, recommends improvements to the Engineer, and updates the system accordingly
- Develops scheduled/provisional plant shut-down plans in conjunction with maintenance supervisors, considering outstanding work, user department needs, spares availability and other factors, and produces a schedule using computer software.
- Creates maintenance codes for the CMMS relating to specific activities equipment, trade discipline etc., and loads into the system.
- Provides input into the development of the plant maintenance budget, monitors and prepares weekly reports on expenditure and advises on various ways of reducing costs
- Accurately maintains the assets register.
- Maintains expenditure control and accounting
- Generates various reports relating to asset maintenance, availability, utilisation, PPM activities etc., and submits to Maintenance Superintendent and Maintenance Supervisors.
- Timely compilation and submission of maintenance reports
- Complies with Company policies, procedures, standard operating practices and Code of Conduct
- Seeks own development and learning opportunities
- Provides on-the-job training for subordinate staff, monitors behavior and takes necessary remedial action, including recommending disciplinary action, in line with laid down policies and procedures.
- Proposes and implements staff development and training programmers for the area of responsibility to ensure a competent, efficient and motivated staff.
- Provides technical guidance and coaching to s