Planned Maintenance Coordinator needed at De Beers Group

Job Description:
Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Asset Care Strategy

• Facilitates a five year maintenance management strategy for the operation
• Assists in addressing all key elements of asset care strategy using KPIs.
• Facilitates cross functional engineering and production teams to minimize reactive maintenance
• Develops business processes, roles and responsibilities for the maintenance management function

Preventive Maintenance

• Establishes programs to minimise unplanned downtime on key equipment
• Establishes cross functional teams to address cleaning, lubrication and first line maintenance functions
• Develops RCM based task lists for all maintenance significant equipment

Analysis and Improvement

• Facilitates failure analysis techniques for cross functional teams
• Identifies significant recurring failure patterns by analyzing maintenance history.
• Ensures that preventative actions are implemented to ensure cost effective maintenance programs.
• Makes formalized recommendations to engineers.

Planning and Scheduling

• Ensures that maintenance schedules are agreed upon by production and engineering at formal weekly meetings
• Ensures that capacity planning is done on a daily basis, covering both preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Employs critical path analysis for shutdowns

Information Management

• Ensures that all work is controlled by works orders and information loops are closed
• Liaises with Planned Maintenance Officers and Foremen to confirm that all technical manuals and documents are up to date
• Verifies that KPIs and reports have been refined
• Ensures that the SAP PM, MM and CO systems are properly supported

Early Equipment Management

• Ensures, as far as possible, that maintenance personnel are involved in new equipment specifications
• Ensures that RCM exercises are done for all new equipment before commissioning
• Participate in Group wide RCM template development and review for primary production equipment

Training and Development

• Ensures that a skills matrix and training plans are in place for all maintenance personnel
• Actively manages the training program of planning personnel
• Focuses on technical skills, coaching and structured root cause analysis

Maintenance Material Management

• Develops critical spare parts lists through the use of a structured RCM methodology
• Ensures that a material management strategy is in place
• Actively supports the codification and bills of material initiatives

Maintenance Facilities and Tools

• Supports a housekeeping program
• Facilitates or manages a tool store function
• Determines, in conjunction with Foremen, that all facilities and tools are adequate for basic maintenance tasks
• Liaises with Foremen to ensure that workshops have been upgraded with regard to lighting, environmental control and material flow
• This role is at a  GBF6 level reporting to the  Section Engineering Manager

Qualifications:

• Matric (Maths + Science) / Technical N3
• National Higher Diploma in Engineering (BTech or Better) NQF Level 6
• Advantageous: N5 in Project Management (National Diploma: Project Management), Programme in Total Quality Management
• Advantageous: Pragma planner certification

Experience

• Experienced in managing a computerized planned maintenance system
• Three years’ experience as a planned maintenance officer

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated skill in managing people and resources
• Ability to plan and organize
• Working knowledge of client disciplines – Metallurgy, Mining, Engineering
• Advanced level computer skills for role including the SAP PM module
• Ability to schedule and manage maintenance activities

Closing Date:

• 11 June, 2025