Job Title: Maintenance Planner
Organisation: NFT Consult
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
NFT Consult Limited is a business process outsourcing firm with offices in Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Botswana Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Burundi and South Sudan.
Job Summary: Our client is a leading manufacturer of quality plastic products in Uganda, committed to innovation, excellence, and customer satisfaction.
Ensures that effective maintenance plans are in place for the maintenance of applicable equipment, that spares are available for the planned work, resources are available to execute. On the planned maintenance outage, monitors that the plan is effective. Makes recommendations to the Maintenance controller and Head of Manufacturing if unforeseen work arises.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Maintains a safe and healthy working environment
- Comply with safety, health and environmental procedures and legislation
- Maintain safety and housekeeping standards
- Plans for the effective maintenance, calibration, repair of equipment and optimization of plant and associated devices
- Locate plant equipment spares and relevant documentation / systems
- Maintain minimum stocks of spare parts and consumables and avoid stock outs of the same; forecast spare parts requirement
Develop the plan
- Continuously improve (optimize) plans and look for opportunities to reduce the overall planned maintenance outage, whilst ensuring that all required work is carried out and plant is not placed at risk.
- Identify the required follow-on work and raise the relevant work orders
- Develop detailed work packages from preventive maintenance routine (PMR) findings and corrective maintenance activities for the maintenance team
- Analyze and screen corrective maintenance (CM) job cards and burning maintenance issues for opportunities to perform root cause failure analysis to prevent future failures.
Work in Teams
- Communicate effectively in teams at all levels in the plant
- Contribute to self and team development
- Maintains E-Maint system integrity
- Ensure correct system usage by team – auditing and coaching
- Publish standard reports
- Facilitates problem solving
- Identify problem or potential problems
- Facilitate problem solving
- Administer a gap list
- Identify equipment eligible for design out maintenance
- Develops and implement asset care plan
- Capture data, analyze and generate asset care reports
- Analyze the equipment data to identify failure causes and dominant failure modes
- Identify the maintenance tasks
Optimize schedules
- Analyze spare parts inventory requirements and continuously improve inventory control
- Compile periodic reports (weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually) to ensure the maintenance manager has up to date information for decision making.
- Implement procurement requirements for spares, materials and outsourced work
- Coordinate the drawing of detailed maintenance tasks per asset
Position KPIs
- This person is authorized to:
- Plan the maintenance day according to standard procedures.
- Access the maintenance system to review works orders or create new works orders.
- Initiate changes to maintenance schedules in collaboration with the Head of Manufacturing, Maintenance Controller, Workshop controller and Maintenance Technicians on the team.
- Source additional resources for a maintenance day if the need arises or where specialist skills are required.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- With 3 years of experience in a similar role
- Higher Diploma in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with 6 years of experience.
- Membership in a professional institution of Engineering.
Key Skills
- Skills in usage of CMMS for example: E-Maint, SAP, Coswin etc.
- High-end problem-solving skills (5WHY, Ishikawa, DMAIC)
Personal Attributes
- Confidence, Integrity, Trustworthy, Respectful, Team Player and Innovator.
- Honesty and reliable, possess cultural awareness and sensitivity.
- Needs to be flexible and able to demonstrate sound work ethics.
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 13th November 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36