Technical Support & Planner

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Job Description:

Sovereign, a national supplier of quality chicken products to various markets with operations in five provinces, is seeking a thorough and committed individual for the position of Technical Support & Planner for its operations in the Commercial division. The Technical Support & Planner is responsible for is responsible for the development and upkeep of the reliability-based maintenance strategy, based on preventive and predictive maintenance, working directly with the Engineering team to build a reliable CMMS system and maintenance team. This position reports to the Services Engineer: GMR2.1 and holds the TASK Grade T14. The ideal candidate must be in possession of a Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degree and have 8 to 10 years’ experience in managing a large-scale maintenance operation in a FMCG environment.

Responsibilities:

    • Establish, maintain and improve the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling process.
    • Responsible for up-keep and accuracy of equipment maintenance history and job records database.
    • Continually improving planning, scheduling, purchasing, stores, data management and job reporting systems to increase planning effectiveness and efficiency.
    • Manage maintenance systems, and liaise with OEM about equipment findings and plan execution of item required attention.
    • Manage maintenance look-ahead planning and review weekly maintenance execution by formulating schedule attainment report and raise the bottleneck on the system.
    • Implement strategies to eliminate wastage.
    • 100% compliance to the Health & Safety permit system.
    • Assist with training, coaching, upgrading and general development of maintenance team.

Qualifications:

    • Strong Leadership skills.
    • Ability to work with diverse groups of people.
    • Sound technical background.
    • Ability to manage and motivate a large team.
    • Good planning and organizing skills.
    • Strong knowledge of maintenance system, eg Pragma, CMMS or SAP.
    • Good knowledge of MS project.

Closing Date: 31 July 2026

As Sovereign is an equal opportunity employer, preference will be given to applicants of designated groups, as defined by the Employment Equity Act.

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