Maintenance Planner at Unilever

Main Job Purpose

• Collaborate with the operations department, assistant engineer, foreman, and artisans to ensure an effective maintenance operation. Accountable for maintaining plant parts system that ensures the necessary parts are on hand to minimize production downtime and maintenance repair time while controlling the spare parts inventory value. In addition to working with vendors and entering purchase orders and all other parts transactions, this includes learning systems, developing procedures, and training related personnel. Also works with the foreman and operations group (Artisan’s) to manage the work order and notification log. Specifically, the Maintenance Planner enters the work orders and provides the necessary reports to enable the efficient completion of all work orders/maintenance schedule. The planner will be responsible for budget control and develop saving projects.

Job Summary
Plant Support

• Responsible for developing and managing the engineering maintenance schedules for the factory.
• Inputs and maintains the engineering master data on SAP PM
• Identifies and implements improvements to the maintenance processes on site.
• Coaches and develops the SAP and engineering planning skills of the engineering staff.
• Implement and define with Assistance Engineering and Foreman the right PM implementation.
• Manage the parts inventory system, includes entering or supervising the entry of all parts transactions such as purchase orders, issues, returns, and inventory adjustments. This also includes managing blocked invoices.
• Maintain accurate inventory records and perform or manage periodic cycle counts and physical inventories.
• Provide management with the required reports.
• Work with maintenance group and vendors to ensure necessary parts are on hand while minimizing overall inventory value.
• Help develop and maintain procedures for parts and work orders and ensure plant compliance with these procedures.
• Manage the work order system. This includes entering or supervising the entry of all work order transactions and providing the required reports to management and maintenance.
• Utilises TPM/ WCM to deliver the maintenance initiatives on site
• Assist and recommend new projects and methods to minimize costs while ensuring accurate systems
• Responsible for maintenance data capture (losses, cost, breakdown analysis, tag resolution.)

Skills/Experience

• National Diploma in Engineering or an N4 (or equivalent) AND a valid Trade Test in Mechanical/ Electrical/ Engineering
• Working knowledge and experience in FMCG/ Manufacturing environment will be an advantage
• 3-5 years working knowledge and experience in managing maintenance schedules, maintenance budgets, improvements of maintenance plans and must have route cause analysis technical know how
• Solid management, leadership, decision making and influential skills and experience is critical
• In-depth working knowledge and experience in maintenance optimization and cost saving
• SAP (Planned Maintenance, Cost Control and Professional Maintenance model) experience
• Proficient TPM (PM Pillar)/ Lean/ WCM and MS Project experience will be an advantage.