Job Description
About the Role
An exciting opportunity is opening for a Maintenance Planner for our Dinmore site.
This is a full-time role responsible for maintenance-related tasks.
The annual salary for this role is not less than $79,****** plus superannuation.
The Maintenance Planner is responsible for a wide range of engineering and maintenance activities associated with the operations of multiple cattle feedlots.
The Maintenance Planner develops and implements long-term and short-term maintenance plans for all mechanical and electrical equipment to optimize feedlot safety, quality, equipment availability, and reliability outcomes.
The role provides direction and guidance to the feedlot maintenance team members to ensure the protected and efficient maintenance and repair of electrical and mechanical assets.
Additionally, the role identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities in processes, systems, and equipment, and manages nominated capital projects.
Reporting to the Plant Engineer, this is a leadership position within the maintenance team.
The position is hands-on, requires extensive maintenance and equipment knowledge, provides equipment solutions using sound maintenance principles, and requires the ability to lead and develop maintenance crew team members.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Facilitate maintenance to ensure production requirements are met
Ensure all requested and scheduled tasks are investigated, planned, executed, completed, and closed out on time and on budget
Prepare and order necessary spare parts and materials for planned tasks
Monitor spare parts holdings and the condition of critical spares
Develop and maintain the SAP PM equipment register (functional locations)
Monitor maintenance employee timesheets and follow up on any comments and recommendations
Plan, schedule, and monitor completion of maintenance work orders
Program and ensure all statutory requirements are met
Plan, schedule,



and coordinate all major repair tasks in conjunction with the feedlot engineer
Ensure all documentation and schematics are securely retained, updated, and maintained as required
Coordinate teams of trades and non-trades personnel and external contractors
Ensure company procedures are supported and adhered to, including permits to work, hot work permits, isolation and lockout, risk assessments, live work procedures, and incident reporting
Support, coordinate, and control ongoing maintenance and capital works planning and coordination functions for all areas of the feedlot
Facilitate and develop the processes required to analyze downtime
Produce actions to fix root causes and prevent failures from reoccurring
Develop effective contractor management systems including performance auditing
Assist in the delivery of projects and maintenance services
Implement minor projects and commissioning
Resolve issues and improve existing and future feedlot systems
Develop systems and practices to maximize the benefit of the SAP PM maintenance management system
Communicate with operations personnel on maintenance issues
Provide in-house training to other staff on the planning and scheduling systems
Organize and schedule maintenance training as required
Provide information for maintenance management reporting
Manage multiple tasks and demands with limited resources
Work with a wide range of people with varying levels of skills
Identify and implement solutions to quickly address feedlot breakdowns
About you
Thorough understanding of work planning and scheduling procedures using SAP PM
Thorough understanding of maintenance work management practices
Advanced electrical or mechanical trade or post-trade qualifications and experience
Experience in maintenance in a feedlot environment desired but not essential
Proven ability to lead, manage, and motivate employees
Ability to lead and motivate people to continuously improve
Experience from a large heavy industrial organization
Extensive computer skills
Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
Effective problem-solving capacity
Sound knowledge of OH&S; regulations

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