Mechanical Planner at HBM Nigeria Plc – Sagamu, Ogun State

HBM Nigeria Plc is hiring a Mechanical Planner in Sagamu, Ogun State, to coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance, strengthen equipment reliability and help minimise sustainable maintenance costs.

Responsibilities

• Prepare planned maintenance work for mechanical teams, contractors and service companies in cooperation with inspectors and execution teams.
• Schedule preventive maintenance in SAP/DMS, balance longer-term workloads and maintain weekly and 13-week plans.
• Prioritise condition-monitoring notifications and agree corrective work orders with relevant stakeholders.
• Lead shutdown planning, bringing together personnel, contractors, materials, spares, equipment, critical paths and timescales.
• Prepare purchase orders and service contracts for major shutdowns and monitor delivery, inventory and expenditure against budgets.
• Maintain standard work orders for recurring tasks and lead weekly planning and KPI reviews.
• Ensure that work orders and annual preventive plans address health, safety, environmental and legal requirements.
• Monitor plan execution, review major repairs and shutdowns, and facilitate after-action learning.
• Guide maintenance employees on planning procedures and supervise selected contractors or jobs during annual plant maintenance.
• Work with the lubrication foreman, inventory, area and shift managers, workshop, procurement, finance and suppliers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Engineering, and CMRP certification.
• Three to five years of mechanical engineering or maintenance experience involving rotating equipment, condition monitoring or heavy-process plants, including cement manufacturing, refineries or power generation.
• Good knowledge of maintenance scheduling, CMMS/ERP and SAP.
• Familiarity with gearboxes, transmissions, hydraulics, pneumatics, welding, lubrication and non-destructive mechanical testing.
• Knowledge of crushers, stackers, reclaimers, raw mills, conveyors and auxiliary plant.
• Experience with vibration and oil analysis, thermography, wear measurements, ultrasonic, penetrant, magnetic particle and radiographic testing.
• Ability to troubleshoot equipment, recommend corrective actions and facilitate root-cause analysis.