Maintenance Planner

Overview

• Coordinate and control all planned and corrective maintenance activities across the raisin manufacturing site, ensuring seamless executionand minimal disruption to operations.
• Plan, sequence, and schedule preventative, predictive, and statutory maintenance across processing, drying, packing, and utility areas tomaximize asset reliability and plant availability.
• Drive compliance with food safety standards and engineering best practices while maintaining strict cost control and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Engineering, and Stores to ensure alignment of maintenance plans with operational priorities.
• Ensure readiness of all maintenance activities by verifying work orders, labour allocation, tools, and material availability in advance.
• Maintain and govern CMMS SAP by ensuring accurate work order creation, execution tracking, and closure, enabling reliable data integrity.
• Capture and analyze maintenance data to support root cause analysis, performance tracking, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Produce clear and actionable reports to support decision-making, improve equipment performance, and optimize maintenance strategies.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of maintenance strategies to achieve best-in-class plant reliability and availability, aligning with industry benchmarks.
• Develop and optimise maintenance work plans by implementing structured processes, incorporating root cause analysis RCA and lifecyclemanagement principles.
• Design and implement equipment-specific maintenance schedules aligned with Food Safety, EHS requirements, sector best practices, andPEMM methodology.
• Monitor, analyze, and report on maintenance KPIs, trends, and the full engineering scorecard to support performance improvement.
• Contribute to maintenance budgeting by analyzing historical data and applying zero-based budgeting principles to improve cost control.
• Ensure CMMS SAP data integrity by validating work orders, verifying artisan inputs, and maintaining strict document control standards.
• Manage and optimise the maintenance backlog, ensuring timely execution and closure of all work orders and job cards.
• Support reliability engineering initiatives by conducting and contributing to analysis such as RCA, and translating findings into actionableimprovement plans.
• Train and support maintenance and production teams on maintenance procedures and effective utilisation of the CMMS system.
• Integrate maintenance plans with production schedules to minimise downtime and maximise operational efficiency.
• Lead forward planning activities weekly, monthly, annual for maintenance tasks, labour, and materials to ensure consistent and effectiveexecution.
• Accurately scope and estimate maintenance work, including duration, priority, resource requirements, spares, tools, specialist services, andmaterials.
• Plan and coordinate contract labour to supplement internal resources and meet maintenance workload demands.
• Identify and manage critical equipment and spares through structured criticality assessments.
• Continuously review and improve maintenance strategies and tasks based on team feedback, plant changes, and evolving industry bestpractices.
• Maintain ≥95% SAP CMMS work order closure compliance by actively monitoring, managing, and driving timely completion and close-outof all maintenance job cards.

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

• Develop, update, and optimize preventive and predictive maintenance programmes across production, packing, and utilities to ensuremaximum equipment reliability.
• Build and execute detailed weekly and daily maintenance plans, including Maintenance Day Plans with defined scope, resources,durations, and lockout requirements.
• Lead pre-maintenance planning meetings to align Engineering, Production, and Contractors on scope, priorities, and execution strategy.
• Plan and coordinate major shutdowns, breakdown repairs, and seasonal maintenance activities, integrating maintenance withproduction schedules and cleaning cycles.
• Prioritize and release work orders in SAP PM, ensuring effective response to corrective and ad hoc maintenance based on risk, safety,food safety, and operational impact.Materials, Spares & Services Coordination
• Determine and manage spares requirements through criticality assessments, ensuring availability of critical parts, tools, and equipment.
• Coordinate external service providers and statutory inspections e.g., boilers, lifting equipment to ensure compliance and operationalreadiness.
• Accurately estimate maintenance work scope, including labour, duration, skills, spares, tools, and specialist services.
• Plan and deploy contract labour to supplement internal resources during peak workloads and shutdown periods.Execution Readiness & Governance
• Ensure execution readiness by defining clear job scopes, safety procedures, permit requirements, LOTO compliance, and food safetycontrols for all work orders.
• Govern work order quality in SAP CMMS by validating job card inputs, including time confirmations, materials usage, and technicalcompletion notes.
• Chair post-maintenance reviews to assess execution quality, identify gaps, and track deferred or incomplete work.
• Maintain ≥95% SAP CMMS work order closure compliance, driving discipline in timely completion and accurate system updates.Performance, Reliability & Continuous Improvement
• Monitor and report on maintenance KPIs, Asset Care indicators, backlog, and schedule adherence to drive performance improvements.
• Analyse equipment failures and losses using RCA, methodologies, translating insights into actionable reliability improvement plans.
• Continuously improve maintenance strategies by incorporating lifecycle management principles, audit findings, and industry bestpractices.
• Plan and track condition monitoring activities e.g., vibration analysis, thermography to proactively identify and mitigate equipmentrisks.
• Maintain engineering documentation and asset records, including drawings, P&IDs, OEM manuals, SOPs, and equipment history foraudit and traceability purposes.Stakeholder Management & Integration
• Collaborate daily with Engineering Managers, Technicians, Production Supervisors, Stores, and external vendors to align maintenanceactivities with operational priorities.
• Integrate maintenance plans with production schedules to minimize downtime and maximize plant efficiency.
• Train and support teams on maintenance procedures and effective use of SAP CMMS to strengthen process adherence and data quality.Financial & Strategic Contribution
• Support maintenance budgeting and cost control through analysis of historical data and application of zero-based budgeting principles.
• Drive best-in-class plant reliability and availability, benchmarking performance against industry standards and continuously improvingmaintenance effectiveness.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Certificate or Diploma Engineering Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial or equivalent.
• Trade Test qualification advantageous.
• SAP PM / CMMS certification or formal training advantageous.

Experience

• Minimum 3–5 years' experience in maintenance planning, maintenance coordination, or engineering maintenance within a manufacturing or FMCG environment.
• Proven experience in maintenance planning and scheduling, including preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance.
• Experience working with CMMS systems preferably SAP PM for work order management, planning, and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience in shutdown planning, backlog management, and resource coordination.
• Exposure to food safety, EHS standards, and statutory compliance within a plant environment.
• Experience in working with automated production systems and modern plant equipment. Technical Knowledge
• Strong understanding of:
• Maintenance planning and scheduling principles
• Root Cause Analysis RCA methodologies
• Reliability concepts MTBF