Maintenance Planner Job Vacancy

Job Title: Maintenance Planner
Company Profile: A multinational company that deals in the Manufacturing and Production of Nutritional and dairy products, coffee, tea, beverages, chocolate and confectionery
Reports to: Factory Eng. Or Maintenance Manager
Main Purpose of the Job
Ensure that all maintenance activities are planned and performed in an optimized way, taken into account all the potential constrains, like: available manpower, production schedule, severity of potential failure, safety, food safety, availabel tools and spare parts, as well as the corresponding prioritization of activites.

Key link with other departments (operational user) as well as the being the main person for all maintenance work orders KPI tracking and trending management
Main Responsibilities of the Job
·         Enable world class maintenance planning in Operations (including operators and technicians), providing assets’
·         Maintenance according to the Strategy
·         Support and contribute to have a proper technical store management
·         Support with data in building the maintenance budget (Zero base), supported with the foreseen planned maintenance in each asset, in line with Guidelines
·         Ensure that the maintenance activities in industrial services are planned properly (including extraordinary activies and special charges
·         Support the technical stores management through a proper link between the planned maintenance activities and the required spare parts, in advance, to help the whole technical store optimization process
·         Ensure the planning of all maintenance activities are performed taken into account constrains on safety, food safety, energy/water consumption at factory level by analyzing the potential impact of any variable (e.g. high risk activites, spare part quality, materials, etc)
Key Experience, Knowledge and Skills
·         3 years experience in a technical field, preferably food manufacturing or consumer good industry (as Technician, Engineering Supervisor, maintenance Engineer, or ther similar position)
·         Recommendation to have participated in a basic SHE and Food Safety training
·         Experiences as Maintenance Planner, including the planning and coordination of maintenance activities, taking into account production schedule and other standard activities related to maintenance planning (budget, safety permits, coordination with oether operational areas, tracking of maintenance KPI’s etc).
·         Participation in multi-disciplinary teams aiming to process or activity optimsation
·         Good understanding of SAM (Stoppage Analysis Module)
·         Technical intstructions and Guidelines Management System
·         Basics of Costing Guidelines and Finance & Accounting principles
·         Good communication skills. Ability to communicate with different areas within the factory (Production, quality, finance, operationsl buyer, storekeeper, etc) as well as teamwork oriented
·         Analytical and statistical skills (tracking and analyzing KPI’s)
To apply for this position send your CV to mycv@myjobseye.com quoting the position in the subject line.
Kindly also mention your current/ last salary and benefits
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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