Planner: Maintenance needed at Clover S.A. Proprietary Limited

Job Advert Summary    

• Manage the maintenance planning function at a production plant

Requirements    

• National Diploma
• 3 – 5 years relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level in a food manufacturing plant – FMCG
• 2 – 3 years’ experience in the Maintenance environment
• 2 – 3 years’ experience working with senior management
• Computer literacy (Intermediate)

Competencies    

• Proactive and action orientated 
• Solves problems through effective decision making 
• Clear and sound reasoning ability 
• Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective 
• Commitment and motivation 
• Administrative capabilities 
• Customer orientated 

Duties and Responsibilities    
Create new factories & equipment on EAM system  

• Create new locations for the new factory 
• Create all new Machine IDs for the factory 
• Create new cost centres for Process, Mixing & Fillings areas in Processed Cheese 
• Apply the correct General Ledger Account Codes to each asset. 
• Obtain new Stock numbers and put all the required Stock into Stores with relative Keywords 
• Label Machine ID’s and D-Bit numbers on assets 
• Update technical library  for completeness and controls 
• Ensure condition report of equipment, document, and record, liaise with sending branch on acceptance 
• Verify stock coordination from sending branches 

Coordinate maintenance planning (CPR379)  

• Liaise with Departments with respect to all maintenancetasks and ensure that all work carried out is planned and completed in a systematic and co-ordinated manner  
• Ensure that a schedule board exists and is used for planning and shutdowns (CPR860) 
• Set up a master plan for all planned maintenancework at branch and to follow up on the success of these plans  
• Plan and initiate all plant shutdowns 
• Ensure that all status codes are used correctly for planning 
• Carry out weekly planning meetings with maintenanceand production present  
• Issue schedule cards each week 
• Retain details of uncompleted job cards/requests 
• Plan work loading per Artisan per week, taking into consideration work priorities and available manpower 

Manage engineering stores  

• Manage engineering store ensuring that all controls e.g. stock levels, stock count, issues and purchases are maintained (CPR380, CPR853, CPR804, CPR805) 
• Ensure that all stock transactions are within the guidelines of the accountancy policies 
• Undertake parts adjustments 
• Undertake annual and quarterly stock usage analysis and take action e.g. change of minimum stock levels, identifications of slow moving parts and obsolete stock 
• Identify critical spares 
• Manage and control used spares store e.g. details of stock, bin numbers etc. 
• Ensure that lubricants are identified per equipment manual and capture details on EAM for equipment lubricant specifications 
• Ensure that cycle counts are done monthly and that an official quarterly stock count is carried out as per Clover policy (CPR804) 

Compile reports and ad-hoc activities  

• Identify performance standards and indicators for different mission success factors. 
• Identify the measurements and keep Plant Engineer updated. 
• Ensure the completeness and control of the technical library 
• Ensure the completeness and filing of all calibrations 
• Help with the maintenanceindex measurements  
• Carry out a self-audit as per the annual maintenanceaudit carried out by Head Office