Maintenance Planner
Listing reference: tship_000076
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 2 November 2026
Position summary
Industry: Mining & Quarrying
Job category: Engineering, Technical, Production and Manufacturing
Location: Kathu
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: No
Introduction
The Engineering Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing, coordinating, and managing maintenance plans and schedules to maximise equipment availability and reliability. The incumbent co-ordinates the operation and administration of planned maintenance systems and activities of maintenance data capturers; controls statutory inspections and keeps all legal records in connection with machinery; communicates, coordinates and manages all maintenance events at the mine; and is responsible for the total materials management functions through forecasting and managing the maintenance budget as well as coordinating resources.
Job description
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling:
- Minimisation of downtime through innovative planning and the compilation of planned maintenance tasks.
- Development of detailed short, medium, and long-term maintenance plans for mobile and fixed plant assets.
- Creation of weekly and shutdown maintenance schedules based on equipment strategies and operational requirements.
- Planning of preventative, predictive, corrective, and condition-based maintenance activities.
- Establishing work packages and job plans for recurring maintenance activities and maintaining rolling maintenance schedules with optimised resource utilisation.
Work Management:
- Management of the end-to-end work management process within the CMMS (On-Key System).
- Review of maintenance notifications and conversion of approved work requests into executable work orders.
- Prioritisation of work based on risk, operational impact, statutory requirements, and maintenance strategies.
- Routine work management (RWM), monitoring of the work order backlog, and driving backlog reduction initiatives.
- Facilitation of weekly planning and scheduling meetings; tracking of schedule compliance and planning effectiveness.
- Accurate closure of completed work orders and capture of maintenance history, including component history and logbook management.
Asset Reliability and Improvement:
- Support of reliability improvement initiatives aimed at reducing unplanned equipment failures.
- Analysis of maintenance history, breakdown data, and equipment performance trends.
- Performance of root cause analysis (RCA) on recurring breakdowns or unplanned stops of machinery
- Identification of opportunities to improve equipment availability, utilisation, and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).
Materials and Resource Coordination:
- Ensuring materials availability for all maintenance (acquisition and availability), including coordination with Stores and Procurement for critical spares.
- Compilation of long-term material and component forecasts; review and maintenance of Bills of Materials (BOMs).
- Total materials management functions (budget quotes and orders), including reconditionable spares management and support of the audit process.
- Coordination of resources, liaising with foremen and artisans, and ensuring contractor resources are planned and available for scheduled work.
Shutdown Planning:
- Compilation of shutdown planned networks (activities, resources, and time) and supporting the team during shutdowns
- Leading planning activities for major equipment shutdowns and annual maintenance campaigns.
- Monitoring of shutdown performance against scope, budget, and schedule, and conducting post-shutdown reviews.
Compliance, Safety, and Risk Management:
- Ensuring maintenance planning activities complies with the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA), environmental legislation, and Company SHEQ standards.
- Verifying that required permits, lockout procedures, and isolation requirements are incorporated into planned work.
- Participation in risk assessments and safety planning activities, and promotion of a zero-harm culture within the Engineering Department.
Reporting and Budget Management:
- Extraction of information and component forecasts; compilation and management of maintenance budgets.
- Financial, maintenance, and production performance reporting and trending.
- Generation of daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance performance reports, including schedule compliance, work order backlog, equipment availability, and planning effectiveness.
- Provision of maintenance planning KPIs and dashboards to management, and support of budget preparation and maintenance forecasting processes.
Minimum requirements
- Grade 12/Matric or equivalent
- Valid South African Drivers Licence
- Diploma/NQF level 6 in Maintenance Management/Engineering Sciences (Essential)
- Advanced Diploma/B-Tech degree in Engineering (Preferred)
- Artisan Trade Test Certificate (Preferred)
- Up to 6 years of experience in a technical maintenance planning environment, of which supervising/overseeing experience is essential.
- Working knowledge of CMMS-based work management (On-Key System) is preferred