Maintenance Planner Job Durban area,South Africa,Engineering

Overview

About Pepsi Co

Pepsi Co products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Pepsi Co generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and Soda Stream. Pepsi Co's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding Pepsi Co is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with Pepsi Co Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.

Responsibilities

What we're looking for: We're looking for a Maintenance Planner based at our Prospection Plant Snacks
. The Maintenance planner shall be under the general direction of the Maintenance Manager. The Maintenance planner responsibility is to maximise technical availability, asset reliability and planned maintenance effectiveness by administering the maintenance planning system, ensuring data integrity, driving analytical problem‑solving, and embedding reliability engineering role combines diligent PM system administration with leading reliability initiatives that reduce unplanned downtime, eliminate repeat failures, and strengthen maintenance strategy.

Accountabilities:

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

Develop weekly Provisional and Confirmed maintenance plans aligned with Production, Quality, Utilities, and Safety requirements. Ensure weekly planning meetings follow the PeMM standard attendees and agenda.

Build, maintain, and optimize 12‑month maintenance master plans, including estimated times, craft allocation, spares, seasonal shutdowns, A&B spares, and reactive forecasts based on previous years.

Ensure all required labour, materials, contractor resources, permits, and safety pre‑checks are defined and ready before job execution.

CMMS Master Data & Work Order Management

Ensure all work orders meet the PeMM Data Standard (correct type, activity, failure & cause codes, timestamps, long descriptions, statuses, priority). Drive >80% data quality improvement.

Maintain accurate equipment master data, ensure new equipment is added with correct structures, FLOCs, maintenance plans, and classification aligned to CMMS playbooks.

Track and control backlogs, ensuring:

WOs >30 days remain 80% completeness and accuracy (location, quantity, part numbers).

Ensure parts reservation for all planned work, use JIB shelves effectively, and conduct quarterly reviews of unused reserved parts.

Support inventory team with criticality analysis, obsolescence reviews, MRP parameters, and ensuring spares meet Global IMA standards.

Reliability, RCA & Loss Analysis Support

Facilitate the closure and tracking of Root Cause Analysis actions for all qualifying downtime events (>4 hours for Beverages). Ensure RCA CMMS linkage and verify action completion.

Maintain structured Top Losses analysis for downtime, MTBF, MTTR, high cost items, high usage spares, and OEM performance. Support monthly maintenance scorecard updates.

Ensure Work Orders include findings that inform updates to maintenance plans, intervals, or design changes

Contractor & Service Provider Coordination

Ensure contractor work is planned, scoped, and reviewed for quality. Capture all contractor labour hours and costs in the CMMS (>75% required to score “At Standard”).

Prepare job packs, risk assessments, permits, spares lists, and safe‑work criteria for contractor tasks.

EHS & Compliance‑Driven Maintenance

Ensure 100% scheduling and tracking of all legislated inspections (lifting equipment, boilers, compressors, electrical HV/LV tests, fire systems) with >90% completion to target dates.

Support GEHSMS implementation through maintenance‑driven compliance tasks (preventive inspections, walkdowns, Gemba).

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