Maintenance Planner

Join National Brands Limited (NBL) at their Durban Tea Factory, a key facility producing iconic South African tea brands. This role is central to planning, coordinating, and executing all maintenance activities, serving as the primary custodian of the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and associated work planning processes. The Maintenance Planner will report to the Engineering Manager and will have one direct report. This is an opportunity to gain valuable experience in a dynamic, hands-on environment, contributing to the quality and innovation of beloved products.

• Make an Impact: Contribute to producing South Africa’s favourite Tea brands, influencing daily life.
• Innovative Growth: Be part of a forward-thinking environment that encourages product and process improvement.
• Career Development: Access a range of roles and growth opportunities at one of NBL’s 5 world-class facilities.
• Collaborative Culture: Work in a supportive, team-driven environment where your contributions matter.

• Planning and coordination of maintenance activities
• Optimisation of maintenance tasks
• Assessment of Engineering workload requirements, liaison with Engineering and Production stakeholders to ensure that maintenance plans are realistic, adequately resourced and plant downtime is appropriately and effectively planned
• Ensures that all Job Cards are reviewed with the following in mind: Effective scope identified, Resources appropriately allocated, Durations are realistic and accurate, Spares and specialist tools required are available
• Drives outage and Shutdown planning activities
• Facilitates daily and weekly work planning meetings with Maintenance, Operations, Stores and other supporting departments
• Plays an active role in maintaining legal registers and driving compliance
• Serves as the custodian for all Work Planning and Control business processes
• CMMS implementation, optimization and management
• Develop cost and time estimates of maintenance work
• Drive the tracking of actual versus budget spend, with the identification of high risk spend areas
• Conduct detailed analysis into the cost of maintenance shuts
• Periodically reviews existing schedules and task lists
• Manage preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, which will include condition monitoring and other practices.
• Updating job cards and maintenance schedules based on OEM manuals, input from Maintenance teams and historical performance.
• Analyse machinery and component life cycles by identifying failure trends and making recommendations to improve maintenance strategies
• Maintains appropriate records to permit the meaningful analysis and reporting of results and compiles reports from the CMMS
• Ensure the availability of requisitioned spares to prevent any unnecessary “idle” time
• Involved in the periodic review of net working capital with input into the decision making to optimise
• Plays an active role in maintaining a satellite store
• Management of Shut interventions
• Involvement in site Capital, Repair and Maintenance Projects
• Manages and develop Data Capturer
• Oversee activities of Data Capturer or Artisans capturing information into the CMMS
• Verifying integrity of data captured by artisans on a daily basis

Experience that set you up for success: At least 10 years’ experience as Maintenance Planner. Engineering Background as either a Mechanical, Electrical or Trade Tested Artisan.

Completed Tertiary qualification in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering. Mechanical or Electrical Trade Test. NQF 5 Qualification in Maintenance Planning will be advantageous.

Competency in Computerized Maintenance Management System (Shopware, Pragma, SAP, ). MS Office package knowledge especially Projects is essential. Plant Maintenance.

Join a leader in FMCG with a proud history and exciting future. If you're passionate about quality, innovation, and teamwork, NBL offers a rewarding career. Apply now and grow great brands, with us!