Maintenance Planner

Job Summary

• We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Planner to coordinate and optimise maintenance activities, ensuring equipment reliability, minimal downtime, efficient resource utilisation, and effective spare-parts management across our manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities.

• Develop and manage weekly, monthly and annual maintenance plans, including preventive and predictive maintenance, weekly care, TPMS and periodic overhauls.
• Coordinate maintenance schedules with Production, Operations, Utilities and Engineering teams to minimise unplanned downtime and production disruption.
• Develop detailed job plans, ensuring the availability of manpower, tools, permits, technical documentation and required spare parts.
• Manage maintenance work orders and backlog through CMMS/SAP PM, ensuring proper planning, execution and closure.
• Review maintenance-spares requisitions to validate technical specifications, quantities, stock availability and alignment with approved maintenance requirements.
• Monitor maintenance KPIs, including schedule compliance, PM completion, MTBF, MTTR and planned versus reactive maintenance.
• Support shutdown planning, equipment reliability improvement, maintenance budgeting and cost optimisation.
• Ensure compliance with HSE, GMP, food safety and statutory maintenance requirements.

Requirements

• B.Sc. or HND in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Mechatronics, Instrumentation Engineering or a related discipline.
• 5–7 years of maintenance experience in a high-speed FMCG or process-manufacturing environment, including at least 2 years in maintenance planning and scheduling.
• Practical exposure to production, process and packaging equipment, as well as industrial utilities.
• Strong working knowledge of CMMS/SAP PM, work-order management, maintenance scheduling and backlog control.
• Experience in spare-parts planning, inventory control and technical evaluation of maintenance requisitions.
• Knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance, asset criticality, RCA and reliability improvement techniques.
• Strong analytical, planning, coordination and cost-management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; experience with Power BI or project scheduling tools is an advantage.
• A recognised maintenance or reliability certification is an added advantage.