Maintenance Scheduler - Durban at Engen

Purpose of the Job

To lead the scheduling of multi-discipline maintenance activities across multiple areas by managing and integrating all activities into overall master integrated schedule and complying with established work processes & management systems, company rules, policies, guidelines and statutory requirements to ensure effective & efficient use of available resources and to establish a tracking mechanism that ensures the plant runs at optimum availability and reliability.

Who you are:

• You are passionate about problem-solving and decision-making.
• You are able to work independently and with a team.
• You possess sound planning and scheduling experience. 
• You use maintenance management tools to ensure effective maintenance of assets.
• You have excellent planning skills.
• You have a passion for asset maintenance.
• What you’ll have done before:

Baseline:

• NQF Level 6 (Diploma in Engineering: Mechanical/electrical/Instrumental/Industrial).
• Minimum 4 years’ maintenance experience in planning and scheduling within petrochemical environment.
• Familiar with planning and scheduling software packages (SAP PM, Primavera or others).
• Familiar with office tools (MS Word, MS Excel).

Advantageous:

• Trade test qualification.
• Planning and organizing Skills.
• Communication skills.
• Exciting Challenges you might face in the role:
• Coordinate maintenance activities within a technical environment.
• Develop detailed work packages from preventive maintenance routine (PMR) findings and corrective maintenance activities for all maintenance teams.
• You lead the scheduling of multi-discipline maintenance activities across multiple areas. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Proactively engaging maintenance and operation teams.
• Having effective communication skill, teamwork enthusiasm and team working.
• Develop and publish weekly schedule as per identified templates.
• Perform resource levelling and leveraging. 
• Develop and publish a master integrated schedule as per agreed scheduling occurrences.
• Forecast peak activities and scheduling conflicts.