Planner

About BIA

BIA Group is active in the sales, rentals and after-sales services of equipment intended for public works, mines, quarries and transport. The Group operates in Europe, Africa and Asia and has more than 1200 enthusiastic employees.
 

Summary

Establish, maintain, and improve the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling business flow process. Improve work force productivity and quality by anticipating and eliminating potential delays through planning, scheduling, and coordination of maintenance resources, parts, materials, and equipment access.

What will be your responsibilities?

In his/her role, the Maintenance Planner will be responsible for:

Manage Site SAP SO’s, SO processes and Data.

• Open service orders following the process and using approved documents as per the SO process. All service orders will have estimated/or actual planned cost captured prior to the commencement of the works.
• Provide regular Age analysis reports.
• Attach document’s as per sequence of events.
• Scrutinize resource allocation planned vs actual. Report any quality deviations to senior supervisors on a daily basis.
• Capture approved intervention reports on a daily basis.
• Weekly meeting with supervisors on documentation capturing, compliance should be at 95%
• Create purchase requisitions following the procedure ensuring healthy competition amongst suppliers is promoted. Same day service for all requests.
• Update and Maintain server file(s) allocated to you at all times.
• Ensure that server is updated for all assets issued and that accountability for assets can never be disputed (signed documents)
• Participate in the development, approval, training, implementation, and review SAP processes.

Provide regular SAP financial status reports.

• PR age analysis
• Labour recovery report to be discussed with senior supervisors on a weekly basis.
• Labour recovery report to be presented to management on a monthly basis.
• Provide forecast reports on a regular basis.

Manage administrator function on site.

• Light vehicle service inspections
• Light vehicle service bookings
• Hard copy filing need to be under lock and key . Access control Participation in budgetary preparation, tracking, and analysis.
• Enters purchase requisitions for all planned services.
• SO files to be upkept and filed for archiving when SO reaches Teco status
• Container management on site is solely your accountability. Send containers to Kitwe finance department as and when required for official document storage as per the Zambian law.
   

Planning & Scheduling

• Run long term forecasts and identify work that needs to be planned and executed within the time frame.
• Performance expectation: To up-skill the workforce; to assist them in developing technical knowledge; Draft Budgets developed.
• Key performance indicator: Staff are competent; Backlog; Open Work Orders; Completed Work Order quality.
• (% OF TOTAL POSITION: 60%)

Continuous Improvement

• Strive to implement new tools to make the planning cycle easier and more accurate.
• Continually update processes and practices for accuracy. Ensure all documentation is clear, updated and complete.
• Performance expectations: Improvement opportunities are, captured and actioned.
• Key performance indicator: KPIs are exceeded; Demonstrable savings and productivity improvements; Tool Time
• (% OF TOTAL POSITION: 30%)

Who are we looking for?

• Must have a technical craft certificate.
• Minimum of technical diploma or equivalent qualification
• Fully conversant with EQP care
• Conversant with SmartFleet
• Conversant with SAP 
• At least 3 years mining experience.
• Good communication and inter-personal skills
• Good understanding of maintenance philosophy

What's in it for you?

• A permanent contract
• A competitive salary and an interesting package of extra-legal benefits
• A human sized company with international dimension, encouraging autonomy and team spirit
• Cooperate in a team with experienced and passionate colleagues within a successfully growing family-owned company
• Benefit from a challenging career opportunity with an extensive training program
• In this challenging job you get the possibility to take initiative and further develop the function