Assistant Maintenance Planner

Sea Harvest’s Asset Care department in Saldanha Bay has a permanent opening for an Assistant Maintenance Planner. Reporting to the Maintenance Planner, you will help plan and schedule maintenance across the production facilities and site services, keep the maintenance system’s data accurate and help embed best practice that keeps the plant reliable.

Key responsibilities:

• Help develop, coordinate and manage work orders, and support weekly and monthly maintenance scheduling
• Capture and maintain accurate job plans, parts lists and labour requirements in the CMMS
• Track planned vs actual maintenance and flag deviations; help coordinate shutdowns and projects
• Own the accuracy of asset registers, work histories and preventive maintenance job plans
• Build Excel dashboards and reports on backlog, schedule compliance and equipment availability
• Provide maintenance history for root-cause analysis, and track spares and materials for planned work
• Support contractor coordination, permit-to-work documents and compliance records

Requirements:

• Grade 12 (NQF 4)
• Post-matric qualification in maintenance management, engineering or a related technical field, or a recognised trade test (Red Seal an advantage)
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a maintenance or plant engineering environment
• Intermediate to advanced Excel and PowerPoint, and hands-on CMMS experience
• Fisheries, seafood or FMCG/food manufacturing experience; SAP PM, RCM/TPM and Power BI are advantages

Posted: 27 October 2026. Closing date: 13 November 2026. The advert states that this role is only open to Employment Equity candidates.