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  • Posted: Feb 12, 2026
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Sappi is a global company focused on providing dissolving wood pulp, paper-pulp and paper based solutions to its direct and indirect customer base across more than 100 countries. Our dissolving wood pulp is used worldwide by converters to create viscose fibre for clothing and textiles, acetate tow, pharmaceutical products as well as a wide range of consumer ...
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    Planning Superintendent

    Description

    We Are Hiring: Planning Superintendent

    • The Planning Superintendent is responsible for establishing and sustaining a robust maintenance planning, shutdown planning, failure analysis, and maintenance performance reporting infrastructure at Ngodwana Mill, supporting the mill’s journey toward becoming a World Class Business.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Shutdown Planning & Execution: Coordinate and maintain the mill shutdown schedule, ensuring effective forward planning and strict compliance with the Shutdown Business Process by managing planners and coaching engineers.
    • Work Management & Planning: Establish and sustain effective weekly and daily planning processes to ensure optimal control of work in progress.
    • Preventative Maintenance Management: Maintain and continuously improve preventative maintenance plans in SAP R/3 through regular audits and schedule optimisation.
    • Failure Analysis & Reliability Improvement: Implement and manage structured failure analysis frameworks, including documentation, flowcharts, and supporting tools.
    • Corrective Maintenance & Quality Control: Develop and manage repetitive task lists, Quality Control Procedures (QCPs), Bills of Materials (BOMs), and SAP R/3 master data to improve job quality and spares availability.
    • Performance Measurement & Reporting: Provide accurate weekly maintenance and engineering performance reports to Engineering, Maintenance, and Planning & Development management.
    • Training & Systems Coaching: Act as an SAP PM coach by training and advising users on best-practice system usage, including rotable control and the rotable repair cycle, and auditing compliance.
    • People Development & MDT Support: Build, develop, and maintain competent, motivated teams while providing effective support to multidisciplinary teams (MDTs).

    Essential Qualifications

    • Diploma (NQF Level 6)
    • Recognised Trade Certificate (Manpower/SETA accredited)

    Minimum Experience & Requirements

    • 5–8 years operational experience
    • Minimum of 3 years planning experience
    • Proficiency in MS Project
    • Strong SAP knowledge (PM, PS, and MM modules)
    • Valid driver’s licence
    • Pulp and Paper industry experience will be an advantage

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    Interested and qualified? Go to Sappi on www.sappi.com to apply

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