Maintenance Planner Job at PepsiCo
Job role overview
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Date posted
September 30, 2026
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Closing date
October 30, 2026
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Hiring location
Western Cape
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Experience
5 years
Description
Overview
- The Maintenance Planner is fundamental to the asset management structure. The role will be responsible for the planning and scheduling of all maintenance work performed in all areas.
- Maintain liaison and coordination between the production and maintenance teams and maintain appropriate records to enable meaningful analysis and reporting of results or work done.
- The responsibilities further include forming part of the EHS and Food Safety team on site, ensuring all legal compliance actions is executed within a reasonable agreed timeframe and being a GEHMS Standard owner.
- Manage and maintain spare part inventory, ensuring highest quality standards is maintained. The secondary component of this role involves serving as a Production Planner, responsible for production scheduling and planning based on operational requirements, representing approximately 20% of the overall role responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage the preventive maintenance programme for the unit
- Optimise the technical resource utilization
- Prepare the weekly budget spread sheet / track spend daily
- Develops and update maintenance program
- Create, verify & update maintenance and inspection schedules
- Plans major breakdown repairs
- Release planned work orders from SAP
- Review the work list and prioritise the adhocs
- Create Maintenance Day Plan and assign tasks to team members and contractors
- Run the pre-maintenance day meeting, communicate the plan to team members and distribute the maintenance works orders and control sheets to team leaders
- Review spares required and equipment availability and reserve where required
- Plan the availability of necessary resources (lines “specialist” tools, equipment suppliers or outsourced services) to ensure that the work gets done on time
- Build and maintain good relationships with all parties (including service providers, part suppliers, OEM’s and contractors as well as internal departments)
- Conduct spares criticality assessment process to identify and action changes to the spare’s requirements.
- Communicate progress against plan and reprioritised work to line of authority hourly
- Assess and manage the corrective work arising on maintenance days in conjunction with the Artisans
- Conduct planned job observations on schedule duration
- Monitors and responds to Asset Care Indicators
- Provide feedback on running schedules, back log status and feedback received on execution of autonomous maintenance schedules
- Validate the integrity of the job card data and ensure repairs done captured on SAP
- Plan machine audits to restore equipment to standard or specification requirements.
- Plans condition monitoring activities
- Plan all annual shutdown tasks
- Manage and control spare part and consumable inventory, ensuring quality standards are met and maintained
- Manage all financial controls (purchase requisitions; purchase orders & GRV’s) off all maintenance parts needed for stores or maintenance activities in compliance with PepsiCo Global Procurement Policy.
- Perform monthly stock counts as per PepsiCo policy, investigate variances and capture the counts and differences.
- Documenting and planning of maintenance activities.
- Upkeep of maintenance processing on SAP.
- Integrating maintenance activities with production plans.
- Planning of personnel and materials for upcoming tasks, ensuring that these resources are organized and prepared.
- Responsible for pre- and post-maintenance meetings, for planning and allocation of maintenance period activities with relevant stakeholders.
- Leading of morning technical meetings.
- Precise assessment of maintenance tasks regarding duration, priority, skill requirements, spare parts, special tools and equipment, specialist services, and the identification of necessary materials.
- Sourcing and ordering of spares in line with monthly budgets.
- Requesting of new vendor applications for better prices on spare parts.
- Estimation and arranging of contract labour to supplement existing resources to meet maintenance requirements and deadlines.
- Issuing of permit to work for contractors and ensuring they adhere to site safety rules.
- Assist the maintenance manager in budget forecasting.
- Assist and support the maintenance manager, store controller and artisans where needed.
- Attend HOD meetings and providing feedback on maintenance related activities.
- Ensure accurate scheduling and on-time product delivery in full (OTIF).
Qualifications
- Education: Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering
- Experience: Minimum 5 years in a manufacturing industry preferably in FMCG manufacturing environment, out of which at least 3 years working in maintenance planning. Working knowledge and proficiency in SAP:PM & MM
Technical skills:
- Problem-solving and diagnostics competency- Advanced level
- good communications skills
- strong analytical thinking skills,
- strong problem-solving abilities,
- practical thinker
- basic knowledge on food safety, hygiene, HSSE&S
Leadership skills:
- able to work and deliver under pressure and tight timelines
- able and willing to identify gaps in self and others to work on
- treats everyone equal and is trustworthy
- Works in collaboration with others, from within and outside her/his department
- Gives clarity about expectations and follows and controls tasks to completion
- Is flexible and can adapt to and influence change well
- Is proactive and focuses on elimination over fixing issues
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