Specialist- Processing (Mechanical Planner)

Job Description
Principal Position Objective
Undertake planning for planned maintenance activities and develop engineering details, scope of work, quality, and safety plans for field execution of maintenance work.
Track and report on maintenance performance indicators.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities
Operational:
Undertake planning for planned maintenance activities and maintenance projects in accordance with planning procedures.
Develop work requests into a meaningful backlog with cost estimates, duration, critical parts &
permit/HSE requirementsdefined.
Develop procedures for regular maintenance related tasks that define job planning, training, permit and safety requirements. Collate this information into standard work packages for regular maintenance activities.
Analyse maintenance costs to determine areas of significant expenditure to generate improvement initiatives and cost optimizations.
Report weekly and monthly on maintenance performance indicators and present these to the Maintenance Superintendent with initiatives for continuous improvement.
Develop the plan to provide supervision and management of internal &
external resources outside of normal business hours when required for shutdowns and other major works.
Developing and maintaining a safe working environment through compliance with the company’s Health &
Safety Program
Complying with the Maintenance Planner/Scheduler’s roles and responsibilities defined in the planning and scheduling, planned, and break-in work processes.
Backlog management, including weekly and monthly backlog reviews, purging aged work orders as required
Maintains backlog to effectively manage maintenance work
Scoping jobs as necessary to include:
All necessary job steps, required tooling, drawings and diagrams, parts, manpower, and safety elements to be addressed
Determining the required parts on each work order in the backlog;
verifying parts are available and ordering parts as necessary
Coordinating with procurement to generate material purchase orders and agreed delivery dates
Determining the need for special support equipment and orders/schedules as necessary
Chair and lead the weekly planning and scheduling meetings
Determining the work order planned start date
Controlling work orders to the 'Approved' and ‘Ready to Schedule’ status
Assisting in the development and maintenance of cost forecasting and budgets
Utilizing Condition Based Monitoring Reliability data
Implementing Demonstrated Best Planning Practices
CMMS Power User (SAP, Pronto or similar)
Planning and coordinating equipment commissions/decommissions
Review completed PMs and update agreed changes to parts list and tasks
Review and utilize technician feed back to develop new, and maintain current standard job plans
Safety:
Ensures that all tasks comply with Company health and safety requirements and policies and procedures and strengthens the culture of safety in the workplace.
Demonstrate safety awareness.
Participate in safety meetings and site safety programs.
Other
Carries out all other duties that may reasonably be required.