Maintenance Planner

PepsiCo Inc.; Klerksdorp; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

PepsiCo Inc. in Klerksdorp, South Africa, seeks a Maintenance Planner to design and manage preventive maintenance for all units. You will coordinate between production and maintenance teams, maintain records and use SAP to plan, schedule and track work orders, spares, and budgets.

The role requires minimum 5 years in manufacturing with 3 years in maintenance planning, and hands-on experience with SAP PM & MM. You will contribute to EHS compliance and drive continuous improvement on asset care.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in manufacturing with 3 years in maintenance planning.
• Working knowledge of SAP: PM & MM.
• Experience in FMCG environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the preventive maintenance programme for the unit.
• Optimise the technical resource utilisation.
• Prepare the weekly budget spread sheet / track spend daily.
• Develops and update maintenance programme.
• 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 to ensure on-time completion.
• Build and maintain good relationships with all parties (service providers, suppliers, OEMs and contractors).
• Conduct spares criticality assessment to identify and action changes to spare requirements.
• Communicate progress against plan and reprioritised work hourly.
• Assess and manage corrective work arising on maintenance days with Artisans.
• Conduct planned job observations on schedule duration.
• Monitor Asset Care Indicators and respond.
• Provide feedback on running schedules and backlog status.
• Validate the integrity of job card data and SAP captures of repairs.
• Plan machine audits to restore equipment to standard/specs.
• Plan all annual shutdown tasks.
• Manage and control spare parts and consumables inventory per PepsiCo policy.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering

Tools

SAP PM

SAP MM

Job 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

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the preventive maintenance programme for the unit
• Optimise the technical resource utilisation
• Prepare the weekly budget spread sheet / track spend daily
• Develops and update maintenance programme
• 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.

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