Maintenance Planner at Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa

Job Description

• Ensure PMs/CMs/EMs are generated correctly with all relevant information and supporting documentation.
• Meet and implement MOS standards and processes and achieve output targets of JPH, TTT, MTTR, MTBF and PM/CM completion.
• Prepare work packages for every planned maintenance activity inclusive of repetitive maintenance.
• Order, receive and supervise required material to assist maintenance activities.
• Plan and arrange activities related to equipment maintenance to enhance equipment and plant accessibility and competence supporting site production supplies.
• Coordinate daily as well as weekly planning meetings with maintenance.
• Ensure to execute MPI techniques to improve overall efficiency.
• Coordinate to rebuild spare pieces of equipment with external suppliers.
• Collect drawings, manuals and other documents to assist contractor and maintenance repairs or modifications.
• Submit engineering drawings for any further required revisions or upgrades.
• Coordinate plant shutdowns to attain all essential schedules.
• Execute modification in maintenance records and key equipment with significant spares during setting apt reorder levels along with quantities
• Provide assistance for least amount production downtime.
• Support department’s compliance to any Lean Manufacturing goals and objectives.
• Assist with engineering for spare parts preparation and PM Lists for new equipment.
• Provide technical assistance for supporting entire on-site maintenance activities.
• Proactively support all EH&S procedures and policies.
• Develop weekend work plans and ensure spares and consumables are available to complete scheduled tasks in responsible areas.
• Basic administration of maintenance documents for corrective actions resolution
• Ensure Integrity in work tasks undertaken and identify improvement opportunities.

Responsibilities

• PM completion ratio of = 100%
• No Open Work Orders > Three months
• Develop and implement short, medium and long-term improvement plans for implementation within the automated systems and equipment
• Undertake root cause analysis and implemented Permanent Corrective Actions (PCA’s) correctly and efficiently.
• Ensure spares and maintenance consumables availability
• Drive min/max levels with production stores
• Undertake asset verification and tagging in line with fixture and tooling verification.
• Ensure PM scrubbing is completed timeously, and opportunities identified to improve production cost and machine availability.

Qualifications

• National Diploma or degree: Mechanical/Mechatronics/Electrical/ Automation Engineering
• 5 - 10 Years Automation and Maintenance Experience preferably in Conveyor Systems, EMS systems and Filling Equipment.
• Maintenance planning and execution knowledge with experience in factory maintenance systems (Maximo / SAP)
• Experience in IT field will be an advantage.