Maintenance Planner, R500k p.a.

Top Employer 2025 has an opportunity for a maintenance planner within the engineering department.

Purpose of the role :

To manage the maintenance and technical services function, develop and implement maintenance management systems and monitor maintenance performance to ensure efficient operation of equipment and facilities across the group.

Responsibilities :

• Maintenance management
• Develop and implement maintenance strategies and procedures
• Utilize the latest management tools to ensure effective maintenance of all assets.
• Apply the latest maintenance safety technologies to ensure best-in-class maintenance safety performance and statutory compliance.
• Develop detailed systems from preventive maintenance routine (PMR) findings and corrective maintenance activities for all maintenance teams.
• Analyse and revise screen corrective maintenance (CM) job cards and burning maintenance issues for opportunities to perform root cause failure analysis to prevent future failures.
• Coordinate root cause analysis.
• Attend to procedural and equipment issues.
• Analyse spare parts inventory requirements
• Implement managements procurement requirements for spares, materials and outsourced work.
• Coordinate the drawing of detailed maintenance tasks per asset. Assist with planning of new projects, including progress tracking reports and critical spares lists.
• Assist with shutdown planning.
• Identify, assess and propose new ways of managing maintenance.
• Compile accurate periodic reports (weekly / monthly / quarterly / annually).
• Proactively manage communication and relationships with stakeholders.

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