Maintenance Planner - Epping Rice at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for a seasoned Maintenance Planner to join our dynamic team. The role is physically located in Epping, in the Western Cape. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Develop and manage the preventive maintenance programme for the unit
• Optimise the technical resource utilization
• Prepare the weekly budget spread sheet/track spend daily
• Develops and update maintenance program
• Create, verify & update maintenance and inspection schedules
• Plans major breakdown repairs
• Release planned work orders from SAP
• Review the work list and prioritise the adhocs
• Create Maintenance Day Plan and assign tasks to team members and contractors
• Run the pre-maintenance day meeting, communicate the plan to team members and distribute the maintenance works orders and control sheets to team leaders
• Review spares required and equipment availability and reserve where required
• Plan the availability of necessary resources (lines “specialist” tools, equipment suppliers or outsourced services) to ensure that the work gets done on time
• Conduct spares criticality assessment process to identify and action changes to the spares requirements
• Communicate progress against plan and reprioritised work to line of authority hourly
• Assess and manage the corrective work arising on maintenance days in conjunction with the Senior Technicians
• Conduct planned job observations on schedule duration
• Monitors and responds to Asset Care Indicators
• Provide feedback on running schedules, back log status and feedback received on execution of autonomous maintenance schedules
• Validate the integrity of the job card data and ensure repairs done captured on SAP
• Plan machine audits to restore equipment to standard or specification requirements
• Plan condition monitoring activities
• Chair the post maintenance day meeting
• Plan all annual shutdown tasks

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering  
• Minimum 5 years in a manufacturing industry preferably in FMCG manufacturing environment, out of which at least 3 years working in maintenance planning Working knowledge and proficiency in SAP:PM
• Problem-solving and diagnostics competency- Advanced level
• Good communications skills
• Strong analytical thinking skills
• Strong problem-solving abilities
• Practical thinker
• Basic knowledge on food safety, hygiene, HSSE&S
• Able to work and deliver under pressure and tight timelines
• Able and willing to identify gaps in self and others to work on
• Treats everyone equal and is trustworthy
• Works in collaboration with others, from within and outside her/his department
• Gives clarity about expectations and follows and controls tasks to completion
• Is flexible and can adapt to and influence change well
• Is proactive and focuses on elimination over fixing issues