Maintenance Planner (Gamsberg Mine) at TAU Mining (Pty) Ltd.

Job purpose: 

• to administer and manage the planned maintenance function on all Mining Equipment of the organization effectively and efficiently, within the required budget and scheduled intervals.

Key performance areas:
Planning Duties:

• Compile, develop and implement maintenance schedules for each machine type.
• Obtain and facilitate information from role players in order to compile maintenance budget.
• Plan and control maintenance schedule according to budget.
• Submit maintenance budget for approval to Engineering manager.
• Provide weekly maintenance schedules to the Engineering Superintendents to enable execution of maintenance activities.
• Follow up and monitor progress on execution of scheduled maintenance (planned vs actual).
• Reschedule and update all uncompleted and new maintenance tasks and align with budgetary requirements.
• Monitor the trends of all oil analysis done.
• Monitor and record the life expectancy, of all major components to timely order such components to guarantee availability of equipment.
• Maintain effective planned maintenance system to ensure data integrity of all maintenance schedules.
• Generate maintenance schedule forecasts and reports, as required.
• Facilitate and coordinate planned maintenance schedules with reference to components availability and sub-contractors maintenance activities.
• Analyse maintenance schedule data to identify areas of concern, opportunities, and excellence.
• Perform any other ad hoc request that management delegate to this position.
• Ongoing progress reporting of status of maintenance schedules.

Communication:

• Coordinate effective schedules with OEM’s.
• Report on progress achieved versus planned maintenance schedules.
• Provide information to maintenance and production teams as required.
• Provide weekly and monthly feedback to the management regarding planned maintenance.
• Proactively alert management on cost deviations.

Administrative duties:

• Ensure that parts are available to perform maintenance schedules.
• Monitor maintenance and procurement activities related to maintenance schedules.
• Review and report potential deviations that may affect the execution of the schedule.
• Ensure that all maintenance activities are recorded, and records are kept.

Minimum Job requirements:

• National Diploma Mechanical Engineering, or
• Qualified artisan (Trade Certificate), plus:
• 3-5 Years’ experience on planned maintenance systems in supervisory capacity.
• Maintenance planning and scheduling certificate advantageous.
• Valid code EB Drivers license
• Clean Criminal record

Knowledge, Attitude, Skills & Abilities:

• Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment and Control Training (HIRAC)
• Comprehensive knowledge of planned maintenance systems. (Experience with Pragma system will be highly advantageous)
• Excellent knowledge of Earthmoving Equipment.
• High level of computer literacy (MS Word).
• Presentation skills.
• Planning and organizing skills.
• Sound decision making abilities.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Effective time management skills.
• Must be assertive and able to function under pressure.
• High level of energy deadline driven.
• Budgetary experience.
• Strong technical aptitude