Overview
Maintenance Planner Jobs in Durban, South Africa at PepsiCo
About Pepsi Co
Pepsi Co products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. In 2021, Pepsi Co generated more than $79 billion in net revenue, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and Soda Stream.
Overview
Guiding Pepsi Co is our vision to be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by winning with Pepsi Co Positive (pep+). In South Africa, our products are available at breakfast, lunch, dinner, the gym, the office and on the go. We refresh, restore and rejuvenate our consumers day‑by‑day with our key brands, including Simba, Lay’s, Liqui Fruit and the Bokomo range of cereals.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Maintenance Planner to be based at our Prospection Plant Snacks. The Planner will work under the general direction of the Maintenance Manager and will be responsible for maximizing technical availability, asset reliability and planned maintenance effectiveness through system administration, analytical problem‑solving and the embedding of reliability engineering principles.
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
- Develop weekly provisional and confirmed maintenance plans aligned with production, quality, utilities and safety requirements.
- Build, maintain and optimize 12‑month master plans, including estimates of time, craft allocation, spares, seasonal shutdowns, A&B spares and reactive forecasts.
- 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).
- Maintain accurate equipment master data, adding new equipment with correct structures, FLOCs, maintenance plans and classification aligned to CMMS playbooks.
- Track and control backlogs, ensuring WOs >30 days remain 80% planned work compliance.
- Integrate condition‑monitoring tasks (lubrication, vibration, thermography, oil analysis, inspections) into the CMMS with correct intervals and routes.
- Build and maintain equipment BOMs, ensuring >80% completeness and accuracy.
- Reserve parts 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 ensure spares meet global IMA standards.
Reliability, RCA & Loss Analysis Support
- Facilitate the closure and tracking of root‑cause analysis actions for downtime events (≥4 h for beverages).
- Maintain structured top‑losses analysis for downtime, MTBF, MTTR, high‑cost items, high usage spares and OEM performance.
- Update maintenance plans, intervals or design changes based on work‑order findings.
Contractor & Service Provider Coordination
- Plan, scope and review contractor work for quality and capture 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 with ≥90% completion to target dates.
- Support GEHSMS implementation through maintenance‑driven compliance tasks (preventive inspections, walk‑downs, Gemba).
Documentation & Knowledge Management
- Maintain updated technical SOPs, lubrication maps, condition‑monitoring checklists and task instructions.
- Version‑control electrical drawings, PLC backups and P&IDs with traceable change control as required by PeMM.
KPI Reporting & Governance
- Track and report core PeMM KPIs monthly: unplanned downtime, planned work compliance, technician utilisation, reactive %, stock value vs CARV, training hours, maintenance costs vs CARV.
- Drive actions to transition the site from “Reactive/Moving to Control” toward “Innovative @ Standard.”
Continuous Improvement & Lean Maintenance Practices
- Lead or support improvement initiatives (lubrication optimisation, condition‑monitoring deployment, A3s, MIAP…
Title: Maintenance Planner
Company: PepsiCo
Location: Durban, South Africa
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