Maintenance Planner at Highlands Drinks Limited

About the Job

Detailed responsibilities include:

Planning and scheduling:

• Create and update preventive maintenance schedules based on equipment usage, manufacturer recommendations, and historical data.
• Together with assistant Engineer, prioritize and assign maintenance tasks to technicians based on urgency and impact on production.

Spare parts management:

• Monitor and manage inventory levels of critical spare parts to ensure timely availability for repairs.
• Monitor consumption rates for spares and report and/or perform root causes for abnormal trends.
• Coordinate with procurement department to procure necessary spare parts in good time.

Collaboration and communication:

• Collaborate with production teams to identify potential maintenance needs and schedule maintenance activities with minimal disruption.
• Communicate maintenance plans clearly to all stakeholders and ensure alignment.

Performance analysis and Continuous improvement:

• Analyse maintenance data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Continuously improve preventive maintenance programs, ensuring that day to day experience in maintenance is used to optimize the preventive maintenance programs.
• Continuously gather improvement ideas from all equipment and facilities stakeholders and plan for necessary equipment upgrades and modifications.
• Identify knowledge gaps on operators, technical operators and technicians and recommend suitable trainings

Maintenance Documentation and reporting:

• Generate reports on equipment reliability, maintenance costs, and other agreed maintenance performance metrics.
• Ensure that all preventive maintenance forms and reports are done within the same day of maintenance and are filed appropriately.
• Ensure all RCA reports are done accurately and filed appropriately

Minimum Academic Qualification and Experience

• Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, mechatronic or any related field.
• At least 5 years experience working as a maintenance planner or supervising a major engineering function in a busy factory.
• Technical knowledge - Strong understanding of industrial machinery, mechanical systems, electrical components, and basic troubleshooting.
• Possession of substantial maintenance hands on experience will be an added advantage.