Strategic Maintenance Planner | SAP PM/MM Scheduling

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

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.