Maintenance Planner at Highlands Drinks Limited

Highlands is a Kenyan company manufacturing and marketing non-alcoholic beverages, with a history spanning 69 years. A Pioneer of the East African beverages industry, Highlands has been transformed from a small family factory to a category leader with an "own-brand" portfolio that spans the major beverage categories and consumer segments of the market.

 

Maintenance Planner

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationDiploma
  • Experience5 years
  • LocationNyeri
  • Job FieldEngineering / Technical 

About the Job

Detailed responsibilities include:

Planning and scheduling:

  • Create and update preventive maintenance schedules based on equipment usage, manufacturer recommendations, and historical data.
  • Together with assistant Engineer, prioritize and assign maintenance tasks to technicians based on urgency and impact on production.

Spare parts management:

  • Monitor and manage inventory levels of critical spare parts to ensure timely availability for repairs.
  • Monitor consumption rates for spares and report and/or perform root causes for abnormal trends.
  • Coordinate with procurement department to procure necessary spare parts in good time.

Collaboration and communication:

  • Collaborate with production teams to identify potential maintenance needs and schedule maintenance activities with minimal disruption.
  • Communicate maintenance plans clearly to all stakeholders and ensure alignment.

Performance analysis and Continuous improvement:

  • Analyse maintenance data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
  • Continuously improve preventive maintenance programs, ensuring that day to day experience in maintenance is used to optimize the preventive maintenance programs.
  • Continuously gather improvement ideas from all equipment and facilities stakeholders and plan for necessary equipment upgrades and modifications.
  • Identify knowledge gaps on operators, technical operators and technicians and recommend suitable trainings

Maintenance Documentation and reporting:

  • Generate reports on equipment reliability, maintenance costs, and other agreed maintenance performance metrics.
  • Ensure that all preventive maintenance forms and reports are done within the same day of maintenance and are filed appropriately.
  • Ensure all RCA reports are done accurately and filed appropriately

Minimum Academic Qualification and Experience

  • Diploma in Mechanical, Electrical, mechatronic or any related field.
  • At least 5 years experience working as a maintenance planner or supervising a major engineering function in a busy factory.
  • Technical knowledge - Strong understanding of industrial machinery, mechanical systems, electrical components, and basic troubleshooting.
  • Possession of substantial maintenance hands on experience will be an added advantage.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to Highlands Drinks Limited on recruitment.highlandske.com to apply

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