Planner Asset Care

Job Title : Maintenance planner/ Administrator/ Asset care planner
Division: Weir Minerals

Location : Onsite


Purpose of Role:

Maximizing equipment reliability and operational performance by ensuring maintenance activities are planned scheduled and executed efficiently. Reducing downtime optimizing resources and driving proactive asset care strategies that improve productivity and safety. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver continuous improvement initiatives and support maintenance practices.

Why choose Weir:

Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing quickly adapting and continually finding better faster more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. Its a big challenge but it is exciting.


An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges explore new areas learn progress and excel. Best of all there is no set path that our people must take. Instead everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.


Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming inclusive place where each individuals contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest transparent and authentic in everything we do.


Key Responsibilities :

• Maintenance Planning & Scheduling: Develop detailed maintenance plans schedules job packs and resource requirements to ensure safe efficient and timely execution of preventive predictive and corrective maintenance activities.
• Asset Reliability & Performance: Drive asset care strategies by analysing equipment history identifying recurring failures and implementing maintenance plans that improve reliability availability and overall equipment performance.
• Work Management & Resource Optimisation: Coordinate labour materials tools contractors and spare parts to ensure maintenance work is executed efficiently while minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity.
• Continuous Improvement & Data Management: Maintain accurate maintenance records KPIs and asset information while identifying opportunities to improve maintenance processes planning accuracy and asset lifecycle performance.
• Ensure maintenance activities are scheduled to minimise production downtime.
• Maintain a planned vs unplanned work balance.
• Perform general administrative work

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

• Grade 12 with Maths and Science or equivalent
• Applicable trade ( preferably a Millwright)
• Minimum 35 years experience in maintenance planning asset care reliability or maintenance management within a manufacturing mining or industrial environment.
• Proficiency in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems such as SAP or Shopware or equivalent maintenance planning software.
• Strong knowledge of preventive and predictive maintenance principles resource planning asset management practices and continuous improvement methodologies.

Founded in 1871 Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weirs technology our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.