Maintenance Planner at Unilever

• Collaborate with the operations department, engineers, foreman, stores and artisans to ensure an effective maintenance operation. You will be accountable for maintaining plant parts system that ensures the necessary parts are on hand to minimize production downtime and maintenance repair time.  In addition to working with vendors, entering purchase orders and all other transactions, this role includes learning systems, developing procedures, and training related personnel. You will work with the foreman and operations group (Artisan’s) to manage the work order and notification log. Specifically, the Maintenance Planner tracks 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 developing saving projects.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Responsible for developing and managing the engineering maintenance schedules for the factory
• Inputs and maintains the engineering master data on the CMMS (buildApp, SAP)
• Identifies and implements improvements to the maintenance processes on site
• Coaches and develops the CMMS and engineering planning skills of the engineering staff
• Implement and define with Assistance Engineering and Foreman with 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.
• Liase with Engineering Storeman to maintain accurate inventory records & have the necessary critical spares matrix.
• Provide management with the required reports
• 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 UMS 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.)

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• A minimum of a National Diploma or degree in Engineering (Mech or Elec) / or an N6 with a valid Trade Test in Mechanical/ Electrical/ Engineering.
• Working knowledge and experience in FMCG/ Manufacturing environment will be an advantage
• At least 2-5 years working knowledge and experience in managing maintenance schedules, maintenance budgets, improvements of maintenance plans and must have route cause analysis technical know how
• In-depth working knowledge and experience in maintenance optimization and cost saving
• CMMS (Planned Maintenance, Cost Control and Professional Maintenance model) experience, SAP knowledge is advantageous.
• Proficient TPM (PM Pillar)/ Lean/ UMS and MS Project experience will be an advantage

Skills

• Solid management, leadership, decision making and influential skills and experience is critical
• Analytical & Problem Solving
• Communication & Facilitation
• Good planning and Time Management
• Customer/ Vendor Service Orientation