Senior Planner: Maintenance at SWAKOP URANIUM

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

Responsible for the long term and short term maintenance planning in terms of planning, resourcing, scheduling and co-ordination of all maintenance work for maintaining and enhancing equipment reliability, using the most cost-effective methods to minimize risk and rework.

Key Performance Areas:

• Review and ensure implementation of required changes to work packages or master data for owner approval.
• Review and update work order layouts to ensure compliance to company SSHERQ requirements and maintenance and reliability guidelines.
• Report and review SAP PM work order management KRA’s on regular intervals.
• Establish and maintain sound long and short term maintenance plans and practices.
• Ensure completion of planning functional work to the highest standards for the various planning functions on site.
• Review and build new Reliability maintenance routines based on feedback from Reliability Engineers linked to basic maintenance reviews and RCA reviews considering equipment owner requests and approval.
• Support and review all compliance programs related to all relevant legislation, agreements, standards, codes of practice, statutory and other specified reporting requirements.
• Manage overall planning data control, including the accurate recording, storage, retrieval and management of a variety of information and records.
• Optimize usage of the information systems and database to ensure quality and integrity of maintenance management information reports.
• Provide a framework for a database of all tasks used to compile the weekly plan and long term plan, benchmark current work management standards and optimize work performance.
• Synchronize the Equipment Master data records with the relevant Asset Register.
• Co-ordinate and control spares, critical stock and component control requirements.
• Coordinate the identification and ordering of parts in advance to ensure long term BOM’s meet resourcing and work execution schedules.
• Monitor and coordinate warranty claims with Service receivers mine wide.
• Prepare forecast on major maintenance work, plant shutdown requirements, and mine wide resource coordination.
• Coordinate maintenance shutdown planning with operational departments and issue approval documents.

Requirements and experience:

• Grade 12 with N3 Trade Certificate in related Engineering discipline in a relevant field.
• SAP Maintenance planning certificate will be an added advantage.
• 10 years’ Post Trade Maintenance experience of which 3 years should have been in a supervisory capacity and 5 years should have been in Maintenance Planning.
• Recognized qualification in Asset Maintenance/Business/Project Management will be an added advantage.
• Significant experience and ability to work with integrated maintenance systems such as SAP PM.
• Valid Code B/BE Driver’s License.