Site Maintenance Planner

Sandvik Mining & Rock Technology, is looking for a

Site Maintenance Planner

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a leading global supplier of equipment, tools, service, and technical solutions for the mining industry. The product offering covers rock drilling, rock cutting, rock crushing, loading and hauling and materials handling.

Scope

The Maintenance Planner works alongside the Central Maintenance Planner, Site Manager, Assistant Site Manager to manage the maintenance planning processes on site to achieve customer satisfaction internally and externally and ensure compliance with contractual requirements. The Planner must ensure good preventative maintenance practices and achieve a high level of customer satisfaction whilst ensuring Site and Sandvik Safety and Environmental guidelines are adhered to.

Key performance areas:

EHS

• Ensuring that all reasonable steps are taken to ensure a safe and healthy working environment.
  
  

Manage Maintenance Planning Processes

• Service scheduling
• Stores/Stock holding requirements to meet plan
• Production of job plans including JSA and MSDS requirements
• CMMS upkeep
• Manage condition monitoring
  
  

Manage Fleet Planning

• 3 months in advance
• Liase with Site Manager and Mine Department to ensure plan optimisation
• Ensure CMMS processes are followed on time
• Resource planning to tie in with fleet schedule
• Defect analysis and ensuring maintenance envelope is constantly being reviewed for improvement
  
  

Financial Management

• Ensure all costs are recovered to the CMMS
• Preparation of quotes for major work
• Assist Site Manager develop site budget
• Ensure Site Manager has a budget maintenance plan for each financial year
• Assist Site Manager with site Invoicing
• Assist Site Manager with monthly reporting and analysis of information
  
  

Product

• Sandvik product knowledge ie. Loaders, trucks, drills and consumables
• Tailor the CMMS system to your site & maintain the equipment register.
• Ensure that all components & maintenance are tracked through the CMMS system.
• An understanding of oil sampling techniques and analysis.
• An understanding of tyres and tyre reporting procedures.
• Ensure all resources are available for each & every Work Order.
• Assisting the warehouse personnel manage the resources necessary to efficiently complete all maintenance work on a just in time basis with necessary long lead-time insurance spares.
• Managing all backlog files and WIP.
• Assist warehouse personnel to learn the various parts of each piece of equipment thereby ensuring care of parts (including receiving & shelf life rotation standards).
• Ensuring the direct linking of Condition monitoring to the CMMS.
• Ensure the development of mechanical maintenance plans for all site equipment in accordance with contract requirements.
• Review the maintenance costs regularly in close liaison with the Project Manager with a view to continually improve cost efficiencies for the contract.
  
  

Behavioural & Technical Competencies –

• Must be flexible, self -motivated and demonstrate initiative;
• An in depth understanding of customer business processes;
• Superior customer relations skills;
• Highly developed time management and organisational skills;
• An understanding of the mining industry;
• Provide technical advice and procedural detail to service technicians as required;
• High level of initiative, drive and determination to achieve goals and targets set for customer satisfaction.
  
  

Critical Success Factors

• Building relations and learning the Sandvik Parts & Service organization, Sandvik business and the Sandvik way of working.
• Hard working, well organized and able to manage numerous tasks simultaneously under deadline pressure.
  
  

Your profile

• BE/Diploma in Engineering is a minimum requirement.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in heavy earthmoving equipment maintenance planning is a must.
  
  

Relationships

Reports to: Central Maintenance Planner

Liases with:

Site Manager, Supervisor / Leading Hand ,Service Technicians

Benefits

Sandvik offers a competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits. In addition, we provide opportunities for professional competence development and training, as well as opportunities for career advancement.