Depot Maintenance Planner (KZN) at Alstom

Job Purpose

• To plan, coordinate, monitor and report on all depot maintenance activities and serve as the interface between central planning and customer planning at the depot level.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, consolidate, schedule and manage all depot maintenance plans including corrective maintenance, field modifications, preventative maintenance and EMD with maximum priority given to depot maintenance activities.
• Update and report the status of all depot maintenance activities using relevant planning and reporting tools (GSI, QlikView, excel Planning sheets, etc).
• Attend and lead the daily maintenance planning meetings, manage the whiteboards and DLSB system to ensure scheduled maintenance slots are effectively utilised.
• Communicate updated planning information and allocate tasks to various workshop teams.
• Supervise, coordinate and monitor all train maintenance activities within the workshop according to the time slots allocated during planning meetings and minimise ad-hoc activities.
• Release and share preventive maintenance service orders with the customer.
• Report all cumulated delays, analyse root causes and recommend improvements to prevent future delays.
• Verify compliance with scheduled time slots for preventive maintenance activities (e.g. hand over/ hand back, maintenance, pre-service checks and hand over out).
• Check and ensure the availability of critical maintenance spare parts by engaging with the Supply Chain team through meetings and the SAP system.
• Monitor the status of the workshop infrastructure, especially special tools required for maintenance tasks.
• Escalate production and commercial service issues to the Depot Manager when required.
• Use industrial evaluation KPIs to assess and optimise the maintenance workload on shifts in line with planning schedules.
• Share the monthly maintenance schedule with the customer (Prasa) to ensure all the timeous removal of trains from service for maintenance.
• Track the removal of trains from service for preventive maintenance, leveraging these opportunities to perform additional repairs, inspections and retrofits.
• Add material required by the customer’s preventative maintenance teams during on-condition maintenance if applicable.
• Collect, verify and archive preventative maintenance Means of Proof (MoP) on the system after maintenance activities are completed..
• Verify the customer’s monthly maintenance plan and advise the Depot Manager if tolerances are not met.
• Request timeous train movements or shunting for all maintenance activities planned on a daily basis.
• Recommend and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance maintenance processes.
• Prepare and submit weekly and monthly reports comparing planned vs actual maintenance for both Gibela’s and PRASA’s scopes (Operations Say-Do KPIs) to the customer and central planning.

Minimum Requirements

• B Tech Degree or National Diploma in Industrial Engineering or Operations Management (NQF Level 7)
• 2 Years experience in Production maintenance planning and coordination experience in a process and production environment.
• 3 Years  Operations management experience

Closing Date

• 11 March 2026