Location: Hexham

Remuneration/Benefit: Attractive salary package plus bonus opportunity

About the role:

As Planning, Reliability and Supply Chain Superintendent, you will lead integrated planning, reliability and supply chain activities to improve asset availability, maintenance compliance, fleet performance and inventory outcomes. Working within approved budgets, you will champion continuous improvement, strengthen stakeholder partnerships and guide your teams to deliver protected, efficient and cost-effective maintenance outcomes that support our customers and business priorities.

Responsibilities / Critical Deliverables

- Lead the delivery of safe, compliant and executable maintenance plans, inventory strategies and fleet reliability improvements.
- Develop and maintain maintenance strategies, processes, plans, schedules and work packages that support fleet allocation requirements, maintenance compliance obligations and business priorities.
- Lead fleet reliability improvement programs through analysis of reliability, availability, failure, defect and maintenance performance data, ensuring opportunities to improve asset performance are identified and implemented.
- Facilitate root cause investigations, defect elimination activities and continuous improvement initiatives that improve fleet performance and reduce maintenance costs.
- Lead inventory governance, stock optimisation, warehousing performance and material demand planning to improve inventory accuracy and service levels.
- Establish performance reporting, governance and business rhythms that provide visibility of fleet reliability, maintenance compliance,



inventory performance and resource utilisation and support commercial decision-making to optimise maintenance expenditure, inventory holding, fleet utilisation and asset lifecycle outcomes.
- Manage the relationship between maintenance depots, procurement and supply chain teams to ensure materials availability supports maintenance delivery and operational performance.
- Develop capability within planning, reliability and supply chain teams through coaching, mentoring and performance management.
- Ensure all activities comply with safety management systems, engineering standards, maintenance requirements and legislative obligations.

About you You are an experienced engineering, maintenance, reliability or supply chain leader who uses people, systems and data to improve performance. Commercially astute and solutions-focused, you can influence stakeholders, lead continuous improvement and balance safety, customer, cost and operational priorities while developing high-performing teams.

- Strong leadership and people development capability.
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Engineering, Asset Management, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Logistics or related discipline.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing and relationship management skills.
- Experience driving continuous improvement and change initiatives. Strong commercial acumen and business decision-making capability.
- Extensive experience in rail,



heavy industry, maintenance, reliability or supply chain operations.
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing multidisciplinary teams and alignment to achieve senior leadership outcomes.
- Working knowledge of SAP, inventory systems, maintenance planning tools and Microsoft Office applications.
- Demonstrated knowledge of reliability engineering principles, Reliability Centered Maintenance Practices and maintenance planning practices.

What we offer you

At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities. Some of our benefits include:

- Development and growth opportunities.
- Access to mentoring and development programs.
- Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
- Parental leave program and super booster.

About Aurizon. Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets.

Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.

At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.

To learn about us and our company values, please visit www.aurizon.com.au/careers

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