Profession road transport maintenance scheduler

Road transport maintenance schedulers are responsible for the effective execution of all maintenance work control processes of vehicles for urban transport, and for the efficient and effective use of planning and scheduling all resources to conduct maintenance activities.

Personality Type

• Conventional / Realistic

Knowledge

• Mechanical requirements for vehicles in urban areas

  Know legal requirements that vehicles must meet in order to operate in urban areas. Inspect and maintain components of vehicle subsystems; ensure safety of vehicle, reliability, and driving comfort.

• Mechanical components of vehicles

  Know the mechanical components used in vehicles and identify and resolve potential malfunctions.

• Principles of mechanical engineering

  Understand principles of mechanical engineering, physics, and materials science.

• Electrical systems used in transportation

  Understand the functioning of electrical systems, their specifications, and application in operations and systems for the transportation of freight and people.

• Electronics principles

  The study of electric energy, more specifically electron, control and its prominent principles regarding integrated circuits and electrical systems.

Skills

• Manage backlogs

  Manage work control status and backlogs to ensure completion of work orders.

• Maintain vehicle spare parts

  Maintain the availability of spare parts for vehicles available in order to reduce the amount of time vehicles spend under repair.

• Perform ICT troubleshooting

  Identify problems with servers, desktops, printers, networks, and remote access, and perform actions which solve the problems.

• Connect vehicle maintenance and operations departments

  Establish communication between maintenance and operations planning departments. Ensure professional operations that meet designated schedules; ensure equipment performance and availability.

• Follow work procedures

  Adhere to procedures at work in a structured and systematic manner.

• Distribute technical information on operation of vehicles

  Distribute information resources such as drawings, diagrams, and sketches that describe in detail the technical characteristics of vehicles.

• Provide cost benefit analysis reports

  Prepare, compile and communicate reports with broken down cost analysis on the proposal and budget plans of the company. Analyse the financial or social costs and benefits of a project or investment in advance over a given period of time.

• Programme work according to incoming orders

  Schedule tasks based on incoming work; anticipate the total amount of resources required to complete the work and assign them accordingly. Assess the required working hours, pieces of equipment, and workforce needed taking into account the available resources.

• Accurately estimate work hours

  Assess the necessary work hours, equipment, and skills required to successfully complete a task.;

• Comply with schedule

  Work and complete tasks as scheduled; perform the necessary work activities to successfully complete the task within the timeframe allocated.

• Make numerical calculations

  Work with numbers and perform complex calculations. An understanding of the basics of maths is crucial.

• Read standard blueprints

  Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.

• Organise technical operating information for vehicles

  Gather and process technical information documents such as vendor manuals.

Source: Sisyphus ODB