Mechanical Planner, Ewekoro Plant

Who is Lafarge?

As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Lafarge is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. We are driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling to build more with less. It’s all thanks to our 7,000 talented people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products.

Who are Lafarge People?

Lafarge people are passionate about finding better ways to build. They embrace innovation and improvement with a pioneering spirit. They work as trusted partners, creating better solutions and experiences for their customers, communities, and colleagues.

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 

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

Your Lafarge Experience
At Lafarge, there is endless opportunity for you to play your part. Whether you’re in a technical, managerial, or frontline role, you can shape a career that works for you. With us you’ll have the chance to embrace the passion we share for our planet. You’ll be encouraged to seek out diverse perspectives, share your ideas and build the skills and connections you need to perform at your best. Because it’s only when we work together in a culture where everyone thrives, that we can build the world we all want to live in.