Maintenance Planner (m/f)

Description

• Komatsu is a leading company within the mining and construction earth moving equipment industry. We are currently seeking a Officer: Maintenance Planner with B-Tech at Oranjemund and at least 4 years’ working experience

Duties

Safety,Health & Environment

• Remains up-to-date with Safety procedures
• Plans for safety events and campaigns
• Takes SHE into account in the planning of work output
• Execute Implement the Komatsu Way 5Ss - sorting, organizing, cleaning, ordering and training
• Adheres to SHE policies and procedures
• Instructs/imparts knowledge and procedures to colleagues
• Checks that subordinate staff have understood safety instructions
• Complies with and Instructs colleagues and subordinate staff in the wearing of protective gear and clothing
• Participates in workplace safety events
• Stays informed about emergency first aid kits/fire extinguishers and evacuation procedures
• Operates any company vehicle (truck, car, forklift) within safety standards and procedures, even when not supervised
• Monitor & Control Implements safety awareness in all activities
• Checks that safety signs and signals are in place
• Report Reports hazardous situations, incidents or accidents
• Provides feedback on the effectiveness of safety events
• Reports equipment that is not in good working order

Repairs and Maintenance Scheduling & Planning

• Determining Benchmark maintenance tasks and highlighting trends
• Scoping the full extent of maintenance work needed to be conducted for the relevant repair/preventive/predictive/design-out activities
• Staying abreast of contractual and Service Level requirements and planning within these parameters
• Staying abreast with Warranty conditions, policies and procedures and taking this into account when planning
• Within the guidelines of Policies & Procedures, SHE- and quality principles , planning performance targets, deadlines, outcomes, responsibilities and authorities identified for every stage and every resource involved in the process
• Collaborating with all stakeholders in order to establish needs and assess scope of work
• Obtaining inputs and gathering data from systems history in order to plan
• Forecasting of parts usage (BOM and optimize inventory holding, by liaising with internal stakeholders related to parts and inventory, pricing, availability, sourcing, product support, vetted suppliers, etc.
• Calculating base lines in terms of budget, time and human resources and stock usage
• Documenting risks and any other relevant issues, which may impact the plan
• In conjunction with process stakeholders, determining and finalizing prioritization of tasks
• Obtaining authorization for the Repair and Maintenance
• Assumes responsibility for the backup and update of all planning systems and manual data files
• Monitor & Control Flags deviations from plan and communicates with Service Management timeously
• Monitors costs and efficiencies
• Following-up on deadlines
• Assisting Service Management (Foreman, Depot
• Manager, Operations Manager) in the monitoring and allocation of resources as the approved plan rolls out (implementation)
• Report Develops and disseminates templates for use by Service lines of business in order to streamline their work
• Transfers planning and scheduling skills and knowledge to Service lines of business
• Prints reports on Maintenance Metrics, costs, efficiencies, downtime and trends
• Analyses report information, correlates information with other systems, (such as SAP and Komtrax) in order to propose changes/continuous improvement initiatives

Requisites

• B tech diploma
• 4-6 years work experience
• Valid Drivers license
• Computer literate
• OHSA

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted