Job role overview

  • Date posted

    September 30, 2026

  • Closing date

    October 30, 2026

  • Hiring location

    Western Cape

  • 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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