Engineering Planner - Hospital Maintenance

Role Overview

Provide system and functional support for maintenance planning at a hospital facility, including maintenance plans, scheduling, CMMS records, projects and engineering-equipment reliability.

Critical Outputs

Maintenance

• Develop detailed maintenance plans for plant and equipment.
• Draw up and review method statements for shutdown and scheduled maintenance.
• Schedule maintenance activities with operations personnel.
• Improve planning, scheduling, purchasing, stores, data-management and job-reporting systems.
• Open and close jobs and ensure parts, labour and buy-outs are allocated.
• Update and review works orders on the CMMS.
• Develop maintenance processes and use data to predict maintenance needs.
• Organise spare-parts inventories for emergency and preventative maintenance.
• Communicate maintenance activities and equipment availability.
• Promote safety awareness and compliance with OHS requirements.
• Maintain data integrity and report maintenance KPIs.
• Track remedial actions, estimate job duration and conduct root-cause analysis of failures.
• Identify and mitigate risks, engage stakeholders and provide timely maintenance service.
• Improve equipment reliability, maintain a central source of maintenance information and manage maintenance costs.
• Assess planning records and archiving against quality standards.

Projects and Supervision

• Understand project specifications and develop schedules and budgets.
• Negotiate with vendors and contractors.
• Monitor project progress, prepare reports, attend meetings and delegate tasks.
• Analyse technical drawings and prepare material and cost estimates.
• Ensure projects are completed on time, safely, to quality standards and within budget.
• Supervise installation and initial start-up of engineering equipment.
• Maintain relationships with the Engineering Manager, Quality and Maintenance departments.
• Assist with incident investigations and staff-performance information.

Requirements and Competencies

• At least N5 qualification with Mechanical or Electrical Heavy Current Trade Test and three years' operations or maintenance experience, or S4 Electrical or Mechanical Engineering with one year of experience.
• Practical hospital or similar-environment experience is essential.
• Proven HVAC experience in a hospital or similar environment is essential.
• CMMS experience, preferably SAP PM, is preferred.
• Problem-solving, analysis, judgement, communication, customer responsiveness, resilience, relationship-building, organisation and excellence-orientation skills.