Job Post: Maintenance Planner

Situated in the Piet Retief/Panbult area, ± 55 km from Piet Retief, Kangra Coal (Pty) Ltd. is a modern, mechanized mine.

The ideal applicant will meet the following requirements:

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Grade 12 / N2 certificate

  • Valid trade certificate

  • Advance Microsoft office training word, excel, PowerPoint, MS projects

  • Computer literacy

  • A planning certificate will be advantageous

Experience:

  • At least five years post trade experience

  • At least five years’ experience as a Maintenance Planner

Skills & Responsibilities:

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

  • Ability to work under pressure, analytical thinking, self-motivated

Duties and Responsibilities will include:

  • Will be liaison principal contact and liaison person between maintenance, operations, and other support departments.

  • Manage the CMM system

    • Maintenance scheduling, generate requests for new functional objects, revise and creating the new task list

    • Revise and creating of new separate PM actions, review credibility of data in the CMM system

    • Generate planned job cards, asset care plans, capture feedback on the system & generate reports

  • Manage a filling system

    • Create/design a filing system, ensure the quality of the filing execution & ensure the safekeeping of documentation

  • Relationship expectations

    • Operations - reduce the cost of maintenance while improving service

    • Minimize downtime and interruptions to operate, provide orderly procedures for processing work

    • Provide expert maintenance advice to operations through maintenance planning

  • Maintenance

    • Permit advanced determination of labour resources needed and time required to complete each job

    • Provide an overall plan for the supervisor on which to base his /her pre-thinking and pre-planning for day-to-day work

    • Provide a central source of information concerning maintenance work, equipment, and equipment repair

  • Management

    • Permit accurate forecasting of labour and material needs

    • Permit immediate recognition of labour shortages and excesses

    • Provide factual data required for evaluation of performance and corrective action as needed

    • Provide full productive work for each tradesperson (capacity planning) and thus increasing productivity through the elimination of delays

    • Permit more accurate collection and analysis of cost and assure an economic level of maintenance with less interruption of production

Interested parties should send a C.V. and copies of certificates to:

The Human Resources Department

E-mail: recruitment@kangracoal.co.za

NOTE: CVs WITHOUT A COVERING LETTER WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

Kangra Coal (Pty) Ltd is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and reserves the right not to make an appointment.

A shortlist will be compiled and selected applicants will be invited for an interview. If no response is received within one month, applicants may assume their applications to be unsuccessful. All original certificates and proof of experience must be produced at the interview.  

Closing date: 16 March 2021