Maintenance Planner At International Breweries

The Key Purpose of this role is to manage the relevant maintenance systems, spares management, generation of routine and planned maintenance schedules, provide support to maintenance teams in the execution of maintenance and ensuring relevant Permit-to-Work are in place.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintenance Planning

• Facilitate and lead the planned maintenance pre-meeting with a focus on required work, problems to be addressed and resource requirements
• Plan all required work on the planned maintenance schedule
• Ad hoc tasks should be included and prioritised and relevant works requests generated
• Determine resource requirements to complete work and assign tasks to specific resources
• Interaction with departmental heads to obtain resources necessary for task completion
• Partake in planned maintenance period in support of the maintenance team, assisting with problem solving, work prioritisation and resource re-allocation
• Reschedule incomplete work to the next planned maintenance period and capture all required information from the planned maintenance period on the maintenance systems
• Facilitate and lead the maintenance postmortems and document any problems encountered, opportunities identified and lessons learned

Problem Solving

• Where problems have occurred during routine or planned maintenance activities, apply structured problem-solving approach to resolve
• Where required calls in additional resources to assist in problems solving or escalate to engineer for direction
• Assist fellow team members to resolve problems on request
• Take part, as a functional expert, in FFA's on request
• Ensure maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown programs are completed
• Ensure all required asset care work is carried out and complies with asset care standards
• Ensure spares needed to support asset care program are available on time and within costs
• Identify asset care training needs in the Machine Specialist's as well as in the shift teams and make recommendations
• Analyse SAP maintenance system to identify recurring problems and make recommendations to enhance the asset care schedules
• Co-ordinates resource allocation of process artisans and machine specialist on maintenance and cleaning day and annual shutdown
• Participate as a subject matter expert in asset care problem solving sessions

Key Attributes and Competencies:

• PC literate (Proficiency in Microsoft Office package)
• Understanding of Maintenance Processes and Practices
• In depth knowledge of Brewing and Utilities plant equipment and processes
• Assertive leadership, good people management
• Strong diagnostic ability

Minimum Requirements:

• Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical/Electrical) or equivalent
• 3 to 5 years production Engineering Experience
• Solid SAP experience