Mechanical Planner (Mfamosing) at Lafarge Africa Plc - Dragnet Solutions Limited

Dragnet Solutions Limited - Our client, Lafarge Africa Plc, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Mechanical Planner

Location: Mfamosing, Cross River
Employment Type: Full-time

About the role

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 party’s 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
• Ensure 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.

Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Engineering.

Experience:

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in Mechanical Engineering, including rotating machines.
• Equipment maintenance, condition monitoring, in cement manufacturing company, refinery, power or heavy process plant.

Required skills:

• Good knowledge of maintenance planning and scheduling in a manufacturing setting
• 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. Equipment)
• Good knowledge of Machinery Condition Monitoring technologies and maintenance philosophies
• Ability to troubleshoot the problem and propose corrective actions.
• Excellent knowledge of vibration analysis, oil analysis, wear measurement, thermography, liquid penetrant, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, radiography, etc.
• Knowledge of CMMS and ERP; SAP
• Good knowledge of RCA methodology and facilitating skills.

Application Closing Date
7th June, 2026. 

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note

• It takes less than 5 minutes.
• We review every application.