Job Description

AVI Ltd. is known for its leading household brands across many categories including: hot beverages, sweet and savory 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 an Assistant Maintenance Planner at NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Westmead, Biscuits. A challenging position has arisen for an Assistant Maintenance Planner to join our team at the Westmead Biscuit Factory. The purpose of the role is to provide support to the Maintenance Planning function and ensure that all maintenance activities are effectively planned, coordinated and executed.Line Manager: Maintenance PlannerJob Specification:Key Performance Areas:

• Planning and coordinating daily maintenance activities, including Adhoc tasks
• Assist with the generation and updating of the weekly maintenance plan
• Support Engineering team - Safety (LOTO, PTW, SOP's) & Housekeeping
• Schedule and allocate PM schedules to resources on CMMS, then compile a pre-approved list and send it for approval
• Prepare, compile and update data for Weekly Score Card
• Perform master data - Updating of PM schedules as per management
• Follow up with completed projects, then add new components on the system
• Create PR's for: Electrical, Services, Process, Safety and Mechanical on SAP
• Perform general tasks related to administration and reporting as stipulated by the Maintenance Planner
• Support maintenance activities, including assisting with the allocation of resources for planned activities
• Ensure ongoing communication with Engineering Team Leaders, Production Managers and Production Planners.
• Receive instructions for consumable orders from Foremen, complete order form/s and obtain approval of the Maintenance Planner or relevant other in his/her absence
• Ensures that all Job Cards are reviewed
• Assist with the development of cost and time estimates of maintenance work
• Assist with the tracking of actual versus budget spend, with the identification of high-risk spend areas
• Assist with the analysis into the cost of maintenance shuts
• Support maintenance and budget control initiatives
• Provides support for CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) - implementation, optimization and management
• Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans daily.
• Work closely with engineering stores personnel to control spares availability for planned work
• Report on the effective execution of weekly maintenance
• Analysis and interpretation of maintenance history and report findings to the Maintenance Planner
• Generate weekly maintenance report per plant - Feedback on completion rates
• Attend to Audits with required reports every year
• Condition monitoring reports that require PM schedules to be uploaded or re-structured
• Complete appropriate documentation relating to various maintenance job requests and spare requirements
• Prepare templates and upload new requirements discussed in the Production Meeting held every morning and accordingly discuss with the concerned supervisor relating to documents required
• Draft reports based on data compiled and computed following prescribed formats
• Report on schedule compliance, preventative and reactive
• Engineering contractor safety - compliance to NBL specifications
• Statutory maintenance compliance
• Ensure compliance to statutory and legal schedules by proper scheduling
• Adhere and comply with set SHE policies, programs, practices, safety standards and regulations
• Ensure Job cards have all the relevant safety requirements stipulated including conducting of a risk assessment before starting any job or task and take preventative measures
• Compile and record production data for purposes of quality control and other aspects of production

• 1 year experience in maintenance planning
• 1 year experience within a manufacturing environment

• Grade 12
• N6/T3/S4/ BTech Diploma or equivalent in an Engineering field would be advantageous
• A completed course in maintenance planning practices would be an added advantage
• Engineering field is not a requirement, but would be an advantage
• In possession of a recognized trade test as a Fitter or Millwright would be an added advantage

• Further Courses, certifications, professional affiliations (Microsoft Projects)
• Competency in computerized maintenance management system (Shopware, Pragma, SAP, etc.).
• MS Projects is essential

• Thinking Analytically
• Documenting Facts
• Building Relationships
• Articulating Information
• Meeting Deadlines
• Attention to Detail
• Planning & Organising
• Keeping Commitments

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