Maintenance Planner at Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited

Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the favourite most- loved soft drink brands in the country like; 7up, Pepsi, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Teem, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Maintenance Planner

Location: Abia
Job type: Full-time

Job Summary

• Suitable candidate will be responsible for developing and executing the maintenance strategy relating to production lines.
• Drives innovation and improvement of lines. Manages people and resources to ensure uncompromised safety, availability and quality while minimizing the impact on the environment.

Responsibilities

• Actively participates in organization and scheduling of annual overhaul of production lines and facilities
• Improves efficiencies by increasing preventative maintenance across the plant and to minimize breakdowns and reduce mean time between failures.
• Evaluates effectiveness of corrective actions using all available data
• Maintains effective systems to ensure SBC/PI products and package quality 
• Maintains equipment tree and its components in the Business Information Systems (SAP) or related Systems
• Creates and ensures closure of notifications and work orders using SAP PM or related Systems
• Ensures implementation of basic cycle maintenance, lubrication, cleaning and inspection (CIL) and in still these principles to be part of the culture of operators and technicians.
• Ensures proper upkeep and prevent loss of the tools and equipment in the engineering department
• Ensures optimal spare parts and maintenance materials inventory management
• Schedules routine maintenance activities taking into consideration production program and monitors execution (using SAP where appropriate)
• Schedules condition-based maintenance activities taking into consideration production program and monitors execution (using SAP where appropriate)
• Champions related EATB processes like Performance Management and Team Maintenance
• Carries out root cause analysis on breakdowns

Requirements

• A minimum of Bachelor of Degree (B.Eng.) or HND in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering.
• 3– 5 years relevant hands-on FMCG operation and maintenance experience.
• Knowledge of bottling operations: Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Environment, Engineering, Health and Safety
• Experience in plant manufacturing operations, project planning & implementation

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline  25th October, 2025.