Maintenance Planner

Barry Callebaut; Pasir Gudang; On-site; MYR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company is looking for a Maintenance Planner in Johor, Malaysia. The candidate will manage maintenance activities, ensuring equipment reliability and minimal business disruptions. Applicants should possess a diploma in a technical field or a degree in engineering, with at least 5 years of relevant experience. Strong skills in planning, scheduling, and maintenance management are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of industry maintenance experience in food or process industry.
• Understand planning and scheduling indicators such as plan compliance, planning ratio, backlog, and maintenance cost.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prioritize, and manage maintenance activities to minimize disruptions.
• Evaluate equipment and maintenance history to develop preventive maintenance requirements.
• Ensure stock levels for critical spare parts align with maintenance strategy.

Skills

Technical planning skills

Project management skills

Structured and analytical approach

Proficient in MS-Office applications

Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

Planning and Scheduling

Maintenance strategy

Education

Diploma in a technical profession

Bachelor degree in Engineering

Job description

Overview

About the role

The maintenance planner is responsible to plan, prioritize, schedule, and manage maintenance activities to maximize the uptime and efficiency of the equipment within the stream. Create and review the maintenance plan based on the maintenance strategy that align with plant target including production delivery, maintenance cost, reliability of equipment, extension of equipment lifespan, MTBF, MTTR and so on. Improve the work performance and quality by anticipating or eliminating potential delays through planning and scheduling the manpower, spare parts, materials and equipment access.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, prioritize, schedule, and manage maintenance activities (including planned maintenance programs, shut-downs, or emergency repairs) to minimize business disruptions.
• Evaluate equipment and maintenance history to determine, develop, and implement appropriate preventive maintenance requirements to ensure optimizing effectiveness of maintenance procedures and maximizing equipment reliability and runtime. Ensure preventive maintenance plan reviewed and updated timely regularly, at least annually
• Plan calibration and verification of all field instruments, especially CCP related.
• Evaluate stock level for critical spare parts and materials. Ensure reasonable stock level that align with maintenance strategy and equipment criticality. Ensure stock level reviewed and updated timely regularly, at least annually
• Align with scheduling optimizers of both streams to ensure maximum uptime of assets.
• Contributes in effective execution and coordination of maintenance activities, in cooperation with Maintenance coordinator.
• Solve technical non-compliances regarding safety and GMP.

Qualifications

• Diploma in a technical profession with minimum 5 years of industry maintenance experience (preferably food or process industry), or:
• Bachelor degree in Engineering or similar.
• Technical planning skills or Project management skills
• Proficient in MS-Office applications and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Structured and analytical approach
• Understand planning and scheduling indicators such as plan compliance, planning ratio, backlog, stock-out, lead time, maintenance cost and so on
• Familiar with processing equipment such as presses, mills, packing line, chiller system, hydraulic & pneumatic system, steam system, blower, screw conveyor, rotary feeder and so on.
• Electrical/PLC system knowledge is an asset
• English - basic level
• Planning and Scheduling
• Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
• Maintenance strategy