Depot Maintenance Planner (KZN)

Job Purpose

To plan, coordinate, monitor and report on all depot maintenance activities and serve as the interface between central planning and customer planning at the depot level.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, consolidate, schedule and manage all depot maintenance plans including corrective maintenance, field modifications, preventative maintenance and EMD with maximum priority given to depot maintenance activities.
• Update and report the status of all depot maintenance activities using relevant planning and reporting tools (GSI, QlikView, excel Planning sheets, etc).

• Attend and lead the daily maintenance planning meetings, manage the whiteboards and DLSB system to ensure scheduled maintenance slots are effectively utilised.

• Communicate updated planning information and allocate tasks to various workshop teams.
• Supervise, coordinate and monitor all train maintenance activities within the workshop according to the time slots allocated during planning meetings and minimise ad-hoc activities.
• Release and share preventive maintenance service orders with the customer.
• Report all cumulated delays, analyse root causes and recommend improvements to prevent future delays.
• Verify compliance with scheduled time slots for preventive maintenance activities (e.g. hand over/ hand back, maintenance, pre-service checks and hand over out).
• Check and ensure the availability of critical maintenance spare parts by engaging with the Supply Chain team through meetings and the SAP system.
• Monitor the status of the workshop infrastructure, especially special tools required for maintenance tasks.
• Escalate production and commercial service issues to the Depot Manager when required.
• Use industrial evaluation KPIs to assess and optimise the maintenance workload on shifts in line with planning schedules.
• Share the monthly maintenance schedule with the customer (Prasa) to ensure all the timeous removal of trains from service for maintenance.
• Track the removal of trains from service for preventive maintenance, leveraging these opportunities to perform additional repairs, inspections and retrofits.
• Add material required by the customer’s preventative maintenance teams during on-condition maintenance if applicable.
• Collect, verify and archive preventative maintenance Means of Proof (MoP) on the system after maintenance activities are completed..
• Verify the customer’s monthly maintenance plan and advise the Depot Manager if tolerances are not met.
• Request timeous train movements or shunting for all maintenance activities planned on a daily basis.
• Recommend and implement continuous improvement initiatives to enhance maintenance processes.
• Prepare and submit weekly and monthly reports comparing planned vs actual maintenance for both Gibela’s and PRASA’s scopes (Operations Say-Do KPIs) to the customer and central planning.

Minimum Requirements

• B Tech Degree or National Diploma in Industrial Engineering or Operations Management (NQF Level 7)
• 2 Years experience in Production maintenance planning and coordination experience in a process and production environment.
• 3 Years  Operations management experience

Closing Date

11 March 2026

Should you not hear from us in 30 days, consider your application as unsuccessful.