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 **Vacancy Name **at **NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED NBL Isando Biscuits, NBL Rosslyn Snacks, or NBL Westmead Biscuits**.

**Line Manager**: Engineering Manager

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

- Planning maintenance activities and co-ordination of maintenance activities including annual shutdown and daily adhoc work.
- Analyse machinery and component life cycles by identifying failure trends.
- Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans on a daily basis.
- Updating job cards and maintenance schedules based on OEM manuals and historical performance.
- Develop cost and time estimates of planned maintenance work.
- Manage preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, which will include condition monitoring and other practices.
- Monitor job completion rates and report trends to the Engineering management team.
- CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) - implementation, optimization and management of the Shopware Asset Care system.
- Planning and optimising the most appropriate maintenance tasks for relevant equipment
- Analysis and interpretation of maintenance history and feedback report preparation.
- Ensure ongoing communication with Engineering Team Leaders, Production Managers and Production Planner.
- Work closely with engineering stores personnel to control spares and stock levels.
- Projects - work closely with the project team to ensure efficient delivery of tasks involving engineering input

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

- At least 8 years' experience in maintenance planning gained within the FMCG/ Food manufacturing environment.
- Experience in a high-speed packaging environment advantageous.
- Shopware experience is essential

**Qualifications**:

- Completed a trade test as a Fitter, Millwright and Electrical with a recognized institution ideal.
- National Diploma/B.Tech or equivalent qualification in Mechanical
- or Electrical Engineering (N6/T3/S4).

**Additional Requirements**:

- Knowledge of Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) e.g. SAP, Shopware and/or Pragma experience.
- Experience with CMMS preferably Pragma Shopware, will be a distinct advantage.
- Knowledge of TPM and RCM concepts and principles.
- Knowledge of MS Projects and MS Excel.

**Competencies**:

- Meeting Deadlines
- Attention to Detail
- Working Together
- Thinking Analytically
- Interpreting Data
- Planning & Organising
- Articulating Information
- Documenting Facts