Planner: Field

Description

• Responsible for the short term maintenance planning in terms of planning, resourcing, scheduling and co-ordination of maintenance work for maintaining and enhancing equipment reliability, using the most cost-effective methods to minimize risk and rework in the area of responsibility

Duties

• Coordinate and execute technical details of various production or service aspects including testing, planning, and execution phases
• Ensure that all safety and quality standards are adhered to at all times
• Set technical standards and specifications for maintainers, contractors and suppliers, including the management of contractors
• Develop Standard Work Procedures and technical work instructions
• Carry out equipment inspections, draw up short term (weekly) maintenance requirement in order to optimize engineering down time
• Coordinate the maintenance, inspection and repair of related equipment in area of responsibility under repair with service providers
• Review weekly maintenance performance reports and equipment repair history and recommend and implement technical corrective action to optimize plant reliability in support of production throughput ratio
• Coordinate and order spares, tools and required components in conjunction with the Maintenance Planner, suppliers and contractors, in order to optimize downtime
• Control and record the receipt of new parts, components and equipment, by checking for compliance to specifications
• Perform troubleshooting, and fault finding on various technical equipment to ensure corrective action is implemented and related continuous improvement documentation is driven
• Ensure adequate knowledge transfer from training done or vendors to affect future maintenance in compliance with OEM or better standards
• Monitor and coordinates the activities of all subsystems, and is responsible for the overall technical performance, of week ZERO maintenance execution in terms of planned and unplanned maintenance
• Liaise with all Team Leaders and other stakeholders regarding job progress
• Perform downtime analysis to ensure continuous improvements
• Review new installations, alternative requirement analysis if needed and base compatibility review and reports compliance to Reliability section

Requisites

• Grade 12 with 20 points over 5 subjects
• Recognized N3 Trade Certificate in relevant field
• Minimum 5 years post trade maintenance experience in the mining industry, of which 2 years should be in the short term maintenance planning environment
• Sound knowledge and experience in Standard Work Procedures and technical work instructions
• Basic CMMS experience and SAP Maintenance or maintenance related systems
• Good understanding of standards and specifications for equipment and spares
• Valid Code B/BE Driver’s License

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted