Maintenance Planner

PepsiCo
Klerksdorp, North West
Full-time
Posted 1 hour ago
Full-time Engineering
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Job Description

Overview

  • The Maintenance Planner is fundamental to the asset management structure. The role will be responsible for the planning and scheduling of all maintenance work performed in all areas. Maintain liaison and coordination between the production and maintenance teams and maintain appropriate records to enable meaningful analysis and reporting of results or work done.
  • The responsibilities further include forming part of the EHS and Food Safety team on site, ensuring all legal compliance actions is executed within a reasonable agreed timeframe and being a GEHMS Standard owner. Manage and maintain spare part inventory, ensuring highest quality standards is maintained

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage the preventive maintenance programme for the unit
  • Optimise the technical resource utilization
  • Prepare the weekly budget spread sheet / track spend daily
  • Develops and update maintenance program
  • 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 (lines “specialist” tools, equipment suppliers or outsourced services) to ensure that the work gets done on time
  • Build and maintain good relationships with all parties (including service providers, part suppliers, OEM’s and contractors as well as internal departments)
  • Conduct spares criticality assessment process to identify and action changes to the spare’s requirements.
  • Communicate progress against plan and reprioritised work to line of authority hourly
  • Assess and manage the corrective work arising on maintenance days in conjunction with the Artisans
  • Conduct planned job observations on schedule duration
  • Monitors and responds to Asset Care Indicators
  • Provide feedback on running schedules, back log status and feedback received on execution of autonomous maintenance schedules
  • Validate the integrity of the job card data and ensure repairs done captured on SAP
  • Plan machine audits to restore equipment to standard or specification requirements.
  • Plans condition monitoring activities
  • Plan all annual shutdown tasks
  • Manage and control spare part and consumable inventory, ensuring quality standards are met and maintained
  • Manage all financial controls (purchase requisitions; purchase orders & GRV’s) off all maintenance parts needed for stores or maintenance activities in compliance with PepsiCo Global Procurement Policy.
  • Perform monthly stock counts as per PepsiCo policy, investigate variances and capture the counts and differences.

Qualifications

  • Education: Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in mechanical, industrial, or electrical engineering
  • Experience: Minimum 5 years in a manufacturing industry preferably in FMCG manufacturing environment, out of which at least 3 years working in maintenance planning. Working knowledge and proficiency in SAP:PM & MM

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Job details
Job TypeFull-time
LocationKlerksdorp, North West
CategoryEngineering
Experience5+ years
Posted3 November 2026
Closing Date3 December 2026
PepsiCo
Klerksdorp, North West

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