Planner

Company Description

We have an exciting opportunity for Planner. The purpose of this role is to specify the requirements for completing approved work to ensure that required resources are identified before work commences, enabling the safe and efficient delivery of work.

We’re the best in the industry.

You’ll make us better.

Guided by our purpose and our values, we enable both high performance and purposeful action as we aim to “re-imagine mining to improve people’s lives", delivering the metals and minerals that make modern life possible – from mobile phones to medicines.

Kumba Iron Ore

We produce high-grade iron ore, the key component in steel widely used in construction and manufacturing across the world. Our activities include all aspects – exploration; mining; processing and blending; shipping; marketing and selling. In South Africa, we have mining operations in the Northern Cape province, as well as a head office in Rosebank, Gauteng, and a port operation in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape.

Job Description

As Planner your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Consistently apply Safety and health principles in all team interactions and take personal responsibility for the safety of self and others to ensure zero harm and elimination of fatalities.

Operational Planning

• Translate the Asset strategy developed by Reliability Engineers into Effective Maintenance Plans with sufficient task details (tasks, sequencing of activities, resource requirements, overall job time definition).
• Continuously improve maintenance plans by validating and ensuring accuracy (BOMs, components, part numbers).
• Develop maintenance plans in SAP for all new assets before coming to the site.

Routine Work Planning (PM03/PM15):

• Verify that all tactical work orders meet the required standard before releasing and issuing them. This includes ensuring that work centres, functional locations, descriptions, PRTs, resources, task durations, operational networking, dates, conditions, constraints, and all necessary safety instructions are accurate.
• Maintain all tactical work (PM03/PM15) executed outside the original scheduled date as urgent work following the mine standard. The WM Planner is responsible for ensuring that tactical PM03 orders are closed out daily in the SAP system after the execution and return of the job cards.
• Coordinate all change requirements for tactical PM03 work orders with the Reliability department. If changes are needed, the WM planner must communicate them to the accountable department using the correct change management process to make the necessary modifications.

Ad-hoc Work Generation (PM01 Orders):

• Capture any ad hoc notifications in the system per work management standards when required.
• Check SAP Transaction IW28 daily to identify notifications with the Approved (APD), Open (OPN), or Cancelled (NCD) status.
• Notify the accountable FLM to approve or cancel notifications in open status for more than 24 hours.
• Convert all open notifications with APD status to a PM Order to continue planning daily tasks.
• Inform the FLM if the notification is not approved or cancelled according to standard, i.e., the required date, task description, functional location, impact, and upper-cost limit.
• Click the “Create” button next to the Order field to create the PM Order once satisfied, and choose a PM Order Type.
• Communicate any notifications with OPN status longer than 24 hours to the FLM daily for immediate attention. If no response is received, escalate the issue.
• Notify the CC daily of any open notifications with NCD status created by the CC Clerks for feedback to the Originator and closure.
• Communicate any open notifications with NCD status created by WMP daily, along with the cancellation details, and close them to the originator.

Daily Planning Routine:

• Daily review of the Task Status Report to aid in prioritising work planning and tracking upcoming work.
• Update work centre capacity for the weeks ahead.
• Create or complete the required planning job cards.
• Attend and actively participate in all management routines, such as daily feedback and weekly schedule draft reviews.
• Identify and promptly escalate all critical issues that may threaten the successful planning of work orders for completion by their required date.

Specification of work/task (Daily):

• Plan approved work orders, including routine and ad hoc work (Within your area of responsibility) for resource provision and execution before the required date as defined by the business.
• Specify and sequence tasks to be executed, including any precision to be incorporated.
• Ensure that hazards, controls, and permit requirements are structured according to guidelines.
• Ensure that instructions and procedures are followed according to guidelines.
• Ensure that all work orders meet the work management planning process requirements.

Resource Specification (Daily):

• Plan all labour and materials needed for the work to standard and ensure timely execution.
• Ensure that tools, services, equipment, and contract resources are planned to standard and delivered on time.
• Adjust task durations as per the plan and adhere to them.
• Initiate resources and orders on time for all approved tasks.
• Facilitate the Work Management process by planning all required resources for approved work on the work order.
• Cost detail:
• Escalate promptly if the cost of planned work exceeds the upper-cost limit initially established by the FLM to obtain approval for completing the Work order planning.
• Specify the correct cost centres for the work to be executed.

Specify scheduling details:

• Ensure task sequencing according to the prescribed plan.
• Ensure adherence and execution of tasks as per the latest and earliest start dates.
• Complete timely release of work orders.
• Plan for thorough Job tracking and reference for history requirements.

Analyse and improve planning:

• Analyse current planning trends and recommend and obtain approval for amendments to the template where improvements are specified.

Work Order Closure (Daily):

• Ensure received work orders are confirmed/ partially confirmed and completed correctly in SAP in time according to business requirements.
• Ensure all returned work orders and all other applicable documentation are filed and stored as per business requirements.

Managerial Routines (Weekly):

• Assist and participate in weekly Schedule draft and formal review meetings.

This role is in the Engineering & Maintenance HME department on a Band 7 (C4) level reporting to the Planning Advisor.

Qualifications

• Grade 12/N3 Technical
• NQF5 Higher National Qualification
• NQF6 – relevant National Diploma is preferred
• Trade Certificate in an Engineering discipline
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical Knowledge

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in a mining operational environment.
• Key value drivers within the discipline's value chain and interdependence of critical levers.
• Principles of how operational processes are classified according to the Operating Model, focusing on Work Management.
• Real-time problem-solving tools and techniques.
• Business acumen and commercial drivers of the discipline schedule.
• Operational Risk Management techniques and critical controls.
• Safety, health and environment, legislative, statutory, and regulatory requirements

Additional Information

Who we are?

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine.

We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo A