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 **MAINTENANCE PLANNER **at **NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Durban Tea, in Dubran, KwaZulu Natal**.

**Line Manager**: Engineering Manager

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

- 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 & Control business processes
- CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) 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 req’d 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 preventing Satellite Store
- Management of Shut interventions
- Involvement in site Capital and R&M 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

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

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

**Qualifications**:

- NQF 5 Qualification in Maintenance Planning
- BTech in Mechanical or Electrical will be advantageous
- Mechanical, Electrical or Trade Tested Artisan

**Additional Requirements**:

- Intermediate skills using Microsoft excel, word, outlook and MS projects
- Competency in Computerized Maintenance Management System (Shopware, Pragma, SAP, etc.)
- MS Office package knowledge especially Projects is essential
- Plant Maintenance

**Competencies**:

- Thinking Rationally
- Influencing Others
- Building Relationships
- Making Decisions
- Developing Strategies
- Setting Directions
- Minimising Risks
- Embracing Change