Maintenance Planner at Grand Cereals Limited (GCL)

Grand Cereals Limited (GCL), a subsidiary of UAC of Nigeria PLC, is an integrated foods company whose primary activity is the creation of superior value from local raw materials to produce and deliver superior quality brands in the animal feed, edible oils, breakfast cereals, pet food and other intermediate and consumer cereals products to Nigeria and West Africa markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Maintenance Planner

Location: Jos, Plateau
Function: Supply Chain
Job Class: JC 12
Reports To: Engineering Manager

Purpose of Job

  • Responsible for managing the maintenance process across the factory, reducing breakdowns and ensuring equipment reliability and maintainability.
  • The role also ensures that maintenance related data that guarantees equipment reliability are kept up to date.

Key Accountabilities
Work Order Management:

  • Responsible for reviewing notifications from various sources, converting to work orders and assigning same to relevant maintenance personnel responsible for resolution.
  • Follow up the work order system to ensure that work orders are completed on schedule. Responsible for generating data that measures compliance to work order system.
  • Drive the system that ensures that all work done in the factory are accomplished using work orders.

Tag System Management:

  • Responsible for managing the tagging system to ensure that all identified equipment issues are tagged.
  • Follow up with Maintenance personnel to confirm that the tag record and analysis register is updated at all times.
  • Co-ordinate resolution of all tagged issues in good time.
  • Manage the process that integrates the tag system with SAP notification systems.

Maintenance Cost Management:

  • Generate monthly reports to track cost of maintenance across the plants.
  • Work with Maintenance Engineers to drive down the cost of maintenance by rolling out best in class maintenance practices.

Work Preparation and Maintenance:

  • Participates in Planned Maintenance preparation by coordinating the pre-maintenance inspection, pre-maintenance meeting, the maintenance process and post-maintenance inspection/meeting. Ensures that all processes are documented accordingly.
  • Follow up on maintenance planning and feedback and ensure files are properly documented on the server.

Maintenance Planning and Control:

  • Manage the planning and execution of maintenance by designing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to guide the planning and execution of maintenance.
  • Manage the execution of all 5why deliberations to ensure quality of the process and follow up on execution and documentation of all countermeasures generated from the RCA.
  • Manages and updates the Planned Maintenance System on SAP to ensure that task lists are updated and used during maintenance.
  • Manage weekly maintenance-related meetings and follow up to ensure that resulting activities are carried out to reduce breakdowns to the barest minimum.

Equipment and Plant Reliability:

  • Manages reliability metrics of MTBF, MTTR and number of breakdowns. Generate reports to track reliability of equipment and liaise with maintenance personnel to stem downtrends.

Workplace Organization:

  • Ensures workplace is 5S Compliant to enhance maintenance activities, safety and general working condition within the area where maintenance is being carried out.
  • Maintains files appropriate to the activities of maintenance structure.
  • Prepares reports and composes correspondence relative to the work.
  • Cleanliness and orderliness of work areas
  • Ensures that the workplace is organized according to extant 5S standards

Health, Safety and Environment:

  • Reports near misses, unsafe conditions and unsafe behaviour within and outside work area
  • Participate in period hazards identification and detailed risk assessment in work area as applicable
  • Participate in investigation of safety events (Incidents, accidents etc) in work area.

Education and Experience

  • A minimum of an Ordinary National Diploma in any Engineering related discipline
  • A minimum of five (5) years relevant work experience with at least three (3) years in a role as technician.

Knowledge, Skills & Attitude:

  • Excellent knowledge of SAP PM and Work Order Management techniques
  • Basic knowledge of spare parts and relationship with equipment
  • Analytical and Numerate Skills
  • Effective communication skills
  • Multitasking and Time Management Skills
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Physical and mental alertness

Deadline: 24th November, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online


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