Maintenance Planner - Pretoria at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

About the job:

The CSIR has a temporary vacancy for a Maintenance Planner in the Facilities Management and Security Services(FM&SS)Portfolio. The incumbent is responsible to plan maintenance and technical services work through job scoping, resource allocation, procurement of materials and services and ensure implementation of works timeously.To use the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), asset register and maintenance tasks to ensure all equipment is maintained to requirements. To monitor and generate reports on maintenance performance for presentation during planning and scheduling meetings with maintenance supervisors and Management. The position is based in Pretoria.

Key responsibilities:

• Implementation of maintenance strategies and developing maintenance procedures
• Utilize latest Maintenance Management tools to ensure effective maintenance of all assets.
• Proactively manage communication and relationships with all customers. Act as liaison between customers and FM&SS staff on FM&SS related issues
• Apply the latest maintenance safety technologies to ensure best-in-class maintenance safety performance and statutory compliance.
• Develop detailed work packages from preventive maintenance routine (PMR) findings and corrective maintenance activities for all maintenance teams.
• Analyse and screen corrective maintenance (CM) job cards and burning maintenance issues for opportunities to perform root cause failure analysis to prevent future failures. Coordinate root cause analysis.
• Attend to procedural and equipment issues that arise and require engineering evaluation and direction to improve specific maintenance procedures.
• Analyse spare parts inventory requirements and continuously improve inventory control.
• Compiling of weekly reports for presentation and discussion at planning and scheduling meetings to assist supervisors with backlog management.
• Implement FM&SS’s procurement requirements for spares, materials, and outsourced work.
• Update maintenance tasks per asset to capture any changes and improvements and ensure job cards from the CMMS always have current information.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• National Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering with at least three years Maintenance Planning experience.
• Supervision of skilled maintenance trades,
• Good organizational skills,
• Experience in analysing trends in performance parameters, 
• Computer literacy, and
• Knowledge and experience in use of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) will be advantageous.

Closing date: 11 July 2023