Maintenance Planner - Jobs in Highfield

Job Description

The Maintenance Planner ensures maintenance activities are planned, scheduled, and executed in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining maintenance schedules and ensuring all necessary materials, tools, and equipment are available for maintenance activities.Additionally, the Maintenance Planner is responsible for identifying opportunities for process improvement and plays a critical role in ensuring that equipment and facilities are properly maintained to minimize downtime and maximize productivity.SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Develop and maintain maintenance activity schedule based on equipment needs, production schedules, and other factors
• Responsible for ensuring all necessary materials, tools, and equipment are available for maintenance activities, including ordering parts and supplies as needed
• Ensure maintenance activities align with overall business objectives
• Analyze maintenance data to identify trends, identify areas for improvement, and develop strategies for optimizing maintenance activities
• Plan and manage shutdown activities
• Ensure all assets have planned maintenance schedules
• The individual will share the overall responsibility of implementing and maintaining best in class strategies ensuring standardized and efficient operations
• Ensure budgeted items are expensed according to fiscal plan and where variances occur, identify and lead opportunities for improvement.
• Support productivity improvement initiatives using lean methodologies, finding better efficiencies, managing cost, labor, material etc.
• Investigate quality issues, define root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure accurate documentation of records and SAP entries
• Carry out other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3–5 years previous experience and knowledge of maintenance planning activities in a manufacturing environment.
• 3–5 years experience/competence in Operations, Process Control and Performance Measurement in a fast paced Consumer Goods (FMCG)/ Consumer Packaged Goods (CMG) preferably food or beverage manufacturing environment.
• Experience working in a unionized environment.
• Proficient in SAP – ERP, Microsoft Office.
• Data entry accuracy and ability to troubleshoot SAP is essential.
• Effective project management, time management and prioritization skills, and able to interpret engineering information and issue effective reports.
• Perform well in a dynamic change environment and manage conflicting priorities while multi-tasking
• Must be self-motivated, proactive with excellent verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to clearly present findings, and improvement ideas.
• Be highly detailed and possess excellent problem resolution skills.
• Has good interpersonal and communication skills and able to influence maintenance culture positively towards the site vision.
• Role will require that PPE be worn when on plant site.
• Compliance with standard operating procedures, legal and other requirements including health and safety, fire protection, environmental, quality, security and continuous improvement programs is a requirement of the job.

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