Job Summary
Maintenance Planner – Lucky Star Operations (LSO)
Purpose of the role:
Maintenance planner will be responsible for drawing up maintenance plan and scheduling the job cards, tracking the breakdown for cannery department. currently cannery department depend on fish meal planner to do maintenance planning.
Key Job Outputs:
- Implement maintenance strategies and develop maintenance procedures.
- Utilize latest maintenance management tools to ensure effective maintenance of all assets.
- Proactively manage communication and relationships with all customers.
- Act as liaison between Technical, Procurement and Management staff.
- Apply the latest maintenance safety technologies to ensure best-in-class maintenance safety performance and statutory compliance.
- Develop detailed work packages from preventive maintenance routine (PMR) findings and corrective maintenance activities for all maintenance teams.
- Analyse and screen corrective maintenance (CM) job cards and burning maintenance issues for opportunities to perform root cause failure analysis to prevent future failures.
- Coordinate root cause analysis.
- Attend to procedural and equipment issues that arise and require engineering evaluation and direction to improve specific maintenance procedures.
- Assist Maintenance supervisors with technical problems as may be required from time to time.
- Analyse spare parts inventory requirements and continuously improve inventory control.
- Compile periodic reports (weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually) to ensure Facilities Management Leadership has up to date information for decision making.
- Implement Facilities Management’s procurement requirements for spares, materials, and outsourced work.
- Coordinate the drawing of detailed maintenance tasks per asset.
Qualifications and Experience:
- BTech Degree or trade test certificate qualification will be advantageous
- A National Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering with a minimum of three years’ planning experience or at least five years' practical experience as an artisan
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes & Essential Competencies:
- Computer skills
- Route cause analyses
- Problem solving
- SAP knowledge will be an advantage
- Analytical ability
- Strong decision-making skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Assertiveness
In support of the company’s Employment Equity Plan, applicants from designated groups will be given preference for this position.