Maintenance Planner - Sasolburg at AECI Limited

Job Description    

• Knowledge and skills to create a job package from the work request.
• Ensure the work package contains all relevant 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, obtain 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 before issuing work package.
• Obtain “quality feedback” from the execution group or from the maintenance work co-ordinator to optimize future planning.
• Archives the plans and data of repetitive jobs for future use.
• If required, attend 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 when planning a task. If required, liaise with the SHE appointee.
• The Planner is responsible for a yearly maintenance schedule. This schedule includes all planned (legal) maintenance inspections, planned production stops, planned maintenance shutdown, major (anticipated) maintenance repairs, etc.
• Compiling daily, weekly and monthly planned maintenance reports
• Monitoring and managing the balance between utilizing internal resources vs. labor hire and contractors, based on demand
• Monitoring, evaluating and analysing maintenance requests
• Being part of the team investigating breakdowns and major failures.
• Updating the plant maintenance resources and equipment schedule as a result of the failure investigations.
• Monitoring that the maintenance execution teams are adhering to the maintenance schedule.
• Managing the active list of work orders
• Any backlog should be recorded and also communicated to, Engineers, Maintenance Work Co-ordinator and Gatekeeper for action

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)
• Minimum 2 years’ experience is a relevant role.