Job Description

AVI Ltd. is known for its leading household brands across many categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.

NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.

An exciting opportunity exists for a MAINTENANCE PLANNER at NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Durban Tea, in Dubran, KwaZulu Natal.

Line Manager: Engineering Manager

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

• Planning and co-ordination of maintenance activities
• Optimisation of maintenance tasks
• Assessment of Engineering workload requirements, liaison with Engineering and Production stakeholders to ensure that maintenance plans are realistic, adequately resourced and plant downtime is appropriately and effectively planned
• Ensures that all Job Cards are reviewed with the following in mind:

• Effective scope identified
• Resources appropriately allocated
• Durations are realistic and accurate
• Spares and specialist tools required are available
• Drives outage and Shutdown planning activities
• Facilitates daily and weekly work planning meetings with Maintenance, Operations, Stores and other supporting departments
• Plays an active role in maintaining legal registers and driving compliance
• Serves as the custodian for all Work Planning & Control business processes
• CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) implementation, optimization and management
• Develop cost and time estimates of maintenance work
• Drive the tracking of actual versus budget spend, with the identification of high risk spend areas
• Conduct detailed analysis into the cost of maintenance shuts
• Periodically reviews existing schedules and task lists
• Manage preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, which will include condition monitoring and other practices.
• Updating job cards and maintenance schedules based on OEM manuals, input from Maintenance teams and historical performance.
• Analyse machinery and component life cycles by identifying failure trends and making recommendations to improve maintenance strategies
• Maintains appropriate records to permit the meaningful analysis and reporting of results and compiles reports from the CMMS
• Ensure the availability of reqd spares to prevent any unnecessary idle time
• Involved in the periodic review of net working capital with input into the decision making to optimise
• Plays an active role in preventing Satellite Store
• Management of Shut interventions
• Involvement in site Capital and R&M Projects
• Manages and develop Data Capturer
• Oversee activities of Data Capturer or Artisans capturing information into the CMMS
• Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans on a daily basis

• At least 3 years experience as Maintenance Planner
• Engineering Background as either a Mechanical, Electrical or Trade Tested Artisan

• NQF 5 Qualification in Maintenance Planning or
• BTech in Mechanical or Electrical will be advantageous or
• Mechanical, Electrical or Trade Tested Artisan (Preferred)

• Intermediate skills using Microsoft excel, word, outlook and MS projects
• Competency in Computerized Maintenance Management System (Shopware, Pragma, SAP, etc.)
• MS Office package knowledge especially Projects is essential
• Plant Maintenance

• Thinking Rationally
• Influencing Others
• Building Relationships
• Making Decisions
• Developing Strategies
• Setting Directions
• Minimising Risks
• Embracing Change

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