Maintenance Planner at Astral Foods Ltd

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.