Maintenance Planner at Aspen Pharma Group

Job Summary

Develop and execute maintenance plans that ensure safe and efficient execution of routine maintenance work, establish standard job plans for repetitive maintenance tasks as well as lead legal compliance of maintenance operations. 

Responsibilities

Planning and Operational Support

• Act as a lead technical expert/ subject matter resource
• Optimise and facilitate implementation of current processes
• Identify gaps in current policies and procedures
• Propose changes or improvements to processes, tools, techniques

Maintenance Planning

• Plan short term maintenance strategies
• Develop detailed job plans that insure safe and efficient execution of all maintenance jobs
• Manage maintenance work notifications and work order backlogs
• Coordinate with production to ensure job plans meet timing requirements
• Forward ready to schedule jobs to Maintenance Scheduler
• Manage and report on maintenance work and associated costs
• Recommend, review and implement new and existing PPM schedules
• Develop, maintain and update facility and equipment registers
• Document machine breakdown history and associated costs
• Analyse maintenance trends and machine/ equipment deviations, and recommend improvements to mitigate any risk
• Prepare shut-down plans for planned maintenance in collaboration with relevant departments
• Communicate deviations to shut-down plan on the day
• Analyse and report on spares for critical and/ or stores items
• Follow management of change process for new materials for job completion to ensure risks are properly controlled
• Create purchase orders for required components not in stock
• Set up planning system and reports
• Monitor condition of equipment and machines
• Plan statutory inspections as per regulatory requirements
• Audit PPM schedules and job cards to assess adherence
• Build job plan library especially for high frequency jobs

Reporting and record-keeping

• Maintain records of asset care documentation
• Consolidate information for reports on weekly/ monthly basis
• Analyse consolidated data and provide recommendations
• Compile detailed and standardised reports
• Monitor and control access to and set-up of electronic databases
• Retrieve supporting documentation and records to facilitate and support query resolution

Requirements

• Grade: 9

Background/experience

• Trade Tested Artisan (Mechanical/ Electrical/ Instrumentation) with 2 to 4 years’ post Apprenticeship experience; or National Diploma in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with 2 to 4 years’ related experience
• SAP PM Maintenance Planning experience

Specific job skills

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of maintenance processes and proper use of the work order system, planning and scheduling
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, standards and compliance requirements
• Adequate craft knowledge and skill to accurately estimate resources
• Advanced technical background in Good Engineering Practices
• Ability to interpret and implement policies, processes and objectives

Competencies

• Interrogating Information
• Meeting Deadlines
• Finalising Outputs
• Maintaining Accuracy