Mechanical Planner at Lafarge Africa Plc

Lafarge is a world leader in building materials, with top-ranking positions in its Cement, Aggregates & Concrete businesses. Located in 64 countries with 65,000 employees, the vision of Lafarge in Nigeria is to be the most trusted and preferred partner of Nigerian construction professionals and home builders by delivering cement and concrete solutions that are best in quality, environmentally sustainable and nationwide available at affordable cost.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Mechanical Planner

Requisition ID:  13859
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun
Job type: Full-time

About the Job

• Improve the efficiency and productivity of own personnel and third party services through a good planning, follow up and optimization of all preventive/corrective maintenance tasks to reach the targets of equipment availability / reliability at the lowest sustainable maintenance cost, in collaboration with all involved departments or sub-departments, following the maintenance guide lines defined by the company.

What You'll Be Doing 
The Mechanical Planner is responsible to prepare all planned maintenance that have to be carried out by the Mechanical Execution team, service companies or contractors. In that role, the Mechanical Planner will work closely with the inspectors and the execution team on the following tasks and responsibilities in order to reinforce the day-to-day job preparation & planning:

• Planning and scheduling of all preventive maintenance routines in SAP/DMS together with the specific execution responsible. Generation and optimization of the 48/96 weeks workload balancing sheet by department/specialty/technic targeting a good balance during the days of the year. Generates the weekly and 13 weeks planning. Prioritizes the notifications coming from condition monitoring or others and generates corrective work orders in agreement with the requester
• Leads the preparation and consolidation of the shutdown planning (personal, third parties services, materials, spare parts, equipment, tools, time, critical path) with coordination meetings using MAC guidelines and tools.
• Generates purchase orders as well as third party services contracts for mayor shutdown, assure that spares and services will be delivered on time. Control of expenses during planning as well during the execution vs budget and control the inventory level vs guide value
• Assure that special and repetitive jobs come with a standard work order. Lead the weekly KPI revision meeting as well as the work planning confirmation for the next week
• Takes care of his own development needs and train maintenance people on planning requirements
• Assure that all work orders have the required H&S information, and that all legal requirements (safety, environmental, maintenance) are in the yearly preventive maintenance plan and are executed.
• Monitor the realization of the plans. Follow-up tasks defined in mayor shut-downs in a daily frequency.
• Leads After Action Review for shutdown or mayor repairs
• The Mechanical Planner will be utilized to supervise some jobs and contractors during annual plant
• The list is not exhaustive as planners may be required to perform other functions as may be assigned by the manager

Who you'll be working
List of direct reports:

• None 

Key Interfaces, stakeholders and relatinships:

• Inspector
• Lubrication Foreman
• Inventory
• Area Manager
• Shift Leader
• Workshop
• External contractors and suppliers
• Procurement,
• Finance 

Requirements
What we are looking for:

• Mechanical Engineering graduate
• 3-5 years’ experience in Mechanical Engineering, including rotating machines, equipment maintenance, condition monitoring, in cement manufacturing company, refinery, power or heavy process plan
• Knowledge of gearboxes, transmissions, hydraulic, pneumatic, welding techniques, lubrication, and mechanical non-destructive testing
• Adequate Knowledge related to equipment function & maintenance (Crusher, Stacker, Reclaimer, Raw mill, Belt Conveyors & Aux. Equipments)
• Good knowledge of Machinery condition Monitoring technologies and maintenance philosophies.
• Ability to trouble shoots the problem and proposed corrective actions.
• Excellent knowledge of vibration analysis, oil analysis, wear measurement, thermography, liquid penetrant, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, radiography, etc
• Good knowledge of RCA methodology and facilitating skills
• CMRP certification will be an added advantage

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online