County Fair, a Division of Astral Operations Limited, has this opportunity for a Maintenance Planner based at County Fair, within the Commercial Division in the Western Cape.
The purpose of this position is to ensure the implementation, maintenance, and integrity of plant asset care management principles by effectively utilizing resourcing through daily planning, scheduling, and execution of maintenance plans.
To capture, complete, costing and analyze all service orders as well as correct all problems on engineering service orders. To create, schedule and offer service maintenance and issuing service orders for preventative maintenance. To analyze all historic proposals regarding expenditure and life of equipment, including the 20 Keys.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for:
FACILITATE PROBLEM SOLVING
- Identify problems or potential problems
- Facilitate problem solving
- Administer a gap list
- Identify equipment eligible for design out maintenance
PLAN MAINTENANCE & PROJECTS
- Plan scheduled maintenance
- Plan shutdowns and projects and feedback on progress
- Review shutdowns / projects
- Participate in job observations
- Identify the required follow-on work and raise the relevant work orders
DEVELOP ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN
- Capture data, analyze and generate asset management reports
- Analyze the equipment to identify failure causes
- Identify the maintenance tasks
- Optimize schedules
MAINTAIN SYSTEM INTEGRITY
- Ensure correct system usage by team – auditing and coaching
- Publish plant standard reports, Thermal inspection, Repairs & Maintenance cost, Maintenance resource planning report, formal failure analysis, downtime, and asset care reports.
- Analyze all service orders/planned maintenance service orders and give feedback of abnormalities of relevant foreman and maintenance manager for action
- Generating service orders for planned maintenance and projects
- Costing of all planned maintenance and project job cards
- Create, schedule and issue service orders for planned maintenance
- Analyze history and proposals regarding expenditure and life of equipment
- Logging of SGA Plant Modifications and filing
- Capturing of purchase requisitions for the Maintenance Manager
- Capturing of purchase requisitions for planned maintenance and contractors
- Reviewing of maintenance documentation
- Filing updating of all engineering checklists
- Writing of CAPEX’s for maintenance or projects.
- Generating “Management of change” documents when required
- Developing maintenance documents
- Weekly and monthly reporting on maintenance activities
OPERATIONAL/FUNCTIONAL
- Generating reports on monthly basis regarding the status of various maintenance activities and projects to Engineering Manager
- Establish and implement the necessary management information systems (PC)
- Oversee and file all the startup inspection forms registers and log them for 20 keys and report all outstanding forms
- Establish and implement necessary management systems
- Liaising with contractors and suppliers regarding quotations, consultations and parts
- Liaising with production and management regarding machine shutdowns
- Liaising with internal and external auditors regarding maintenance documentation
- Contacting suppliers for parts and stock deliveries
- Issuing work permits for contractors and maintenance staff
- Verification of maintenance jobs
- Verification of contractor jobs
- Regular machine and plant inspections and generating reports when required
- Assisting with maintenance tasks and projects over weekends (when required)
- Assisting maintenance staff and foremen with technical problems
The requirements for the position are:
- Grade 12
- N6/National Diploma/BTech Electrical/Mechanical
- Qualified Artisan (Electrical or Mechanical)
- 5 years post-trade experience and minimum 3 years planning experience
- Have knowledge of mechanical and electrical engineering practices
- Have sound knowledge of computers and MS Office (MS Projects, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Explorer & Ms Outlook)
- Have knowledge in Planned maintenance programs
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- To keep abreast of trends and new developments of HACCP, 20 keys and od computer programs
- Able to solve problems related to Microsoft systems, HACCP and 20 keys
- Highly aware and cognizant of safety, health and hygiene stipulations and vigilant to reduce errors
- Due to the nature of the job, extra hours will be required from time to time, which may necessitate working into the evening, public holidays or on weekends.
- If the Line Manager has an operational requirement on a specific task outside the scope of position, it is reasonably expected of the Planner to comply and action such requests for the company.