Maintenance Planner

Maintenance Planner

Salary: TT$8,000

Location: Arouca

Employment Type: Permanent

MAINTENANCE PLANNER JOB DESCRIPTION REPORTS TO: Maintenance Team Lead RESPONSIBLE FOR:

Support to the Preventative Maintenance system and Maintenance Team Leader in Identifying, Prioritizing, Planning and Scheduling maintenance work to keep Plant Equipment operating as required.

LIAISES WITH:

Maintenance Team Lead, Production Team Lead, Production Supervisor, Maintenance Technicians and

Electrical Technicians.

DUTIES:

1. Planning:

• Specific work to be performed.
• Procedures to ensure work are done safely and effectively.
• Skills needed to ensure work can be completed successfully.
• Tools required ensuring work is done efficiently.
• Spare parts and materials required to be replaced or installed

2. Collection of data: Organization and archiving of information related to equipment failures and performance by each item of equipment in order to:

• Improve maintenance plans and schedules for the equipment.
• Improve corrective action responses to minimize repair time when failures occur.
• Improve spare parts usage to minimize wasteful consumption of spares and lubricants.
• Provide training and teaching histories for Technicians on the equipment.
• Enable economic decisions regarding repair or rebuild versus capital replacement of equipment.

3. Prioritization:

• Ensuring that preventative work is performed regularly on equipment critical to production before non-critical equipment.

4. Scheduling:

• Setting dates and times for work that minimize impact on production but still ensure successful completion of work.
• Co-ordination and communication with production supervisors and managers about work to be performed.
• Assignment of personnel to do work in accordance with skills required and rosters.

5. Support: Support to Maintenance Team Leader and co-ordination with Stores Supervisor in ensuring that spare parts inventory is optimized to ensure:

• No lost production time due to unavailability of parts.
• No excessive inventory of spares or excessive spares obsolescence.
• Least cost purchasing of spares that meet quality specifications for performance through open vendor competition.
• Sound economic decisions regarding spares performance and life versus cost.

6. Reporting: Report daily and monthly on plant status and make recommendations regarding the operations of the plant and equipment

7. Safety: Ensure proper safety and housekeeping practices while executing duties to achieve 0% loss time due to accidents.

8. Flexibility: To perform other related duties as may, from time to time, be allocated to him by his

Supervisor or the person in charge.