Maintenance Planner

Overview

• The Maintenance Planner is fundamental to the asset management structure. The role will be responsible for the planning and scheduling of all maintenance work performed in all areas.
• Maintain liaison and coordination between the production and maintenance teams and maintain appropriate records to enable meaningful analysis and reporting of results or work done.
• The responsibilities further include forming part of the EHS and Food Safety team on site, ensuring all legal compliance actions is executed within a reasonable agreed timeframe and being a GEHMS Standard owner.
• Manage and maintain spare part inventory, ensuring highest quality standards is maintained. The secondary component of this role involves serving as a Production Planner, responsible for production scheduling and planning based on operational requirements, representing approximately 20% of the overall role responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the preventive maintenance programme for the unit
• Optimise the technical resource utilization
• Prepare the weekly budget spread sheet / track spend daily
• Develops and update maintenance program
• Create, verify & update maintenance and inspection schedules
• Plans major breakdown repairs
• Release planned work orders from SAP
• Review the work list and prioritise the adhocs
• Create Maintenance Day Plan and assign tasks to team members and contractors
• Run the pre-maintenance day meeting, communicate the plan to team members and distribute the maintenance works orders and control sheets to team leaders
• Review spares required and equipment availability and reserve where required
• Plan the availability of necessary resources (lines "specialist" tools, equipment suppliers or outsourced services) to ensure that the work gets done on time
• Build and maintain good relationships with all parties (including service providers, part suppliers, OEM's and contractors as well as internal departments)
• Conduct spares criticality assessment process to identify and action changes to the spare's requirements.
• Communicate progress against plan and reprioritised work to line of authority hourly
• Assess and manage the corrective work arising on maintenance days in conjunction with the Artisans
• Conduct planned job observations on schedule duration
• Monitors and responds to Asset Care Indicators
• Provide feedback on running schedules, back log status and feedback received on execution of autonomous maintenance schedules
• Validate the integrity of the job card data and ensure repairs done captured on SAP
• Plan machine audits to restore equipment to standard or specification requirements.
• Plans condition monitoring activities
• Plan all annual shutdown tasks
• Manage and control spare part and consumable inventory, ensuring quality standards are met and maintained
• Manage all financial controls (purchase requisitions; purchase orders & GRV's) off all maintenance parts needed for stores or maintenance activities in compliance with PepsiCo Global Procurement Policy.
• Perform monthly stock counts as per PepsiCo policy, investigate variances and capture the counts and differences.
• Documenting and planning of maintenance activities.
• Upkeep of maintenance processing on SAP.
• Integrating maintenance activities with production plans.
• Planning of personnel and materials for upcoming tasks, ensuring that these resources are organized and prepared.
• Responsible for pre- and post-maintenance meetings, for planning and allocation of maintenance period activities with relevant stakeholders.
• Leading of morning technical meetings.
• Precise assessment of maintenance tasks regarding duration, priority, skill requirements, spare parts, special tools and equipment, specialist services, and the identification of necessary materials.
• Sourcing and ordering of spares in line with monthly budgets.
• Requesting of new vendor applications for better prices on spare parts.
• Estimation and arranging of contract labour to supplement existing resources to meet maintenance requirements and deadlines.
• Issuing of permit to work for contractors and ensuring they adhere to site safety rules.
• Assist the maintenance manager in budget forecasting.
• Assist and support the maintenance manager, store controller and artisans where needed.
• Attend HOD meetings and providing feedback on maintenance related activities.
• Ensure accurate scheduling and on-time product delivery in full (OTIF).

Qualifications

• Education: Relevant Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering
• Experience: Minimum 5 years in a manufacturing industry preferably in FMCG manufacturing environment, out of which at least 3 years working in maintenance planning. Working knowledge and proficiency in SAP:PM & MM

Technical skills:

• Problem-solving and diagnostics competency- Advanced level
• good communications skills
• strong analytical thinking skills,
• strong problem-solving abilities,
• practical thinker
• basic knowledge on food safety, hygiene, HSSE&S

Leadership skills:

• able to work and deliver under pressure and tight timelines
• able and willing to identify gaps in self and others to work on
• treats everyone equal and is trustworthy
• Works in collaboration with others, from within and outside her/his department
• Gives clarity about expectations and follows and controls tasks to completion
• Is flexible and can adapt to and influence change well
• Is proactive and focuses on elimination over fixing issues