Maintenance Planner at AECI Limited

Job Description

• Knowledge and skills to create a job package from the work request
• Ensure the work package contains all information about the required resources, i.e. labour, materials, equipment availability, services and works instructions to ensure that the work can be executed in a safe, effective and efficient manner
• If required, he obtains technical input from the Engineering Manager or SME, i.e. technical advice, inspection plan, isometric-drawings(s), etc.
• Ensuring that spares and materials are always available, and by issuing any orders for spares and other materials required on all planned maintenance activities.
• He obtains “quality feedback” from the execution group or from the Maintenance Work Co-ordinator to optimize his future planning.
• He archives the plans and data of repetitive jobs for future use.
• If required, attends daily maintenance schedule update meeting with Engineers, Gatekeeper and Maintenance Work Co-ordinator.  Decides together as a team which jobs to be included in the daily/weekly schedule
• Ensures that all SHE aspects are taken into account to execute the job in a safe manner.  If required, he liaises with the SHE appointee.
• The Planner is responsible that, at the beginning of a year, a yearly maintenance schedule is drawn up.  This schedule includes all planned (legal) maintenance inspections, planned production stops, planned maintenance shutdown, major (anticipated) maintenance repairs, etc.
• By compiling daily, weekly and monthly planned maintenance reports
• By monitoring and managing the balance between utilizing internal resources vs. labor hire and contractors, based on demand
• By monitoring, evaluating and analysing maintenance requests
• By being part of the team investigating breakdowns and major failures

Duties & Responsibilities

• Knowledge and skills to create a job package from the work request
• Ensure the work package contains all information about the required resources, i.e. labour, materials, equipment availability, services and works instructions to ensure that the work can be executed in a safe, effective and efficient manner
• If required, he obtains technical input from the Engineering Manager or SME, i.e. technical advice, inspection plan, isometric-drawings(s), etc.
• Ensuring that spares and materials are always available, and by issuing any orders for spares and other materials required on all planned maintenance activities.
• He obtains “quality feedback” from the execution group or from the Maintenance Work Co-ordinator to optimize his future planning.
• He archives the plans and data of repetitive jobs for future use.
• If required, attends daily maintenance schedule update meeting with Engineers, Gatekeeper and Maintenance Work Co-ordinator. Decides together as a team which jobs to be included in the daily/weekly schedule
• Ensures that all SHE aspects are taken into account to execute the job in a safe manner. If required, he liaises with the SHE appointee.
• The Planner is responsible that, at the beginning of a year, a yearly maintenance schedule is drawn up. This schedule includes all planned (legal) maintenance inspections, planned production stops, planned maintenance shutdown, major (anticipated) maintenance repairs, etc.
• By compiling daily, weekly and monthly planned maintenance reports
• By monitoring and managing the balance between utilizing internal resources vs. labor hire and contractors, based on demand
• By monitoring, evaluating and analysing maintenance requests
• By being part of the team investigating breakdowns and major failures

Qualifications & Experience

• Matric
• N3 Technical qualification with trade test (essential)
• SAP PM and MM (desirable)
• Forklift, Overhead crane (desirable)
• Knowledge of technical spares (essential)
• Shutdown and ad hoc maintenance planning (essential)
• Experience in Shutdown and Maintenance planning (essential)
• Spares identification and planning (essential)
• MS Project (desirable)

Competencies

• Proven planning & fault-finding ability.
• Must be computer literate
• Must be prepared to work overtime and standby duties with own transport as and when required
• Good communication skills
• Attention to detail