Long-Term Maintenance Planner – FIFO Mine

Liontown; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Liontown is seeking a Long Term Planner – Maintenance for our Kathleen Valley site on an 8:6 FIFO roster. This role maintains and updates the long-range maintenance plan across crushing, grinding, flotation, and materials handling, translating LoM and asset inputs into an executable programme.

You will map maintenance events from 6 months to 5 years ahead, supporting major shutdown campaigns and optimising resource availability to minimise downtime.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in engineering, trades background, or equivalent technical discipline.
• Formal training or certification in maintenance planning, reliability, or asset management (e.g. CMRP, ISO 55000 awareness).
• Experience preparing capex inputs, maintenance cost forecasts, or long-lead procurement schedules is highly desirable.
• Experience developing long-range maintenance plans, asset lifecycle strategies, or multi-year shutdown schedules.
• Proficiency in SAP PM or CMMS, including work orders, maintenance plans, task lists, and equipment data.
• WA C Class Drivers Licence.
• Able to pass pre-employment medical, National Police Clearance, and Drug and Alcohol screen.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains a rolling long‑term maintenance plan for the fixed plant across 6 months to 5 years, with milestones and resourcing.
• Schedules major component replacements, condition-based interventions, and inspections ahead of execution windows.
• Maintains a rolling 12‑month master maintenance calendar updated quarterly, aligned with shutdowns and production outages.
• Flags campaigns and projects requiring long‑lead prep to engineering and supply chain teams.
• Contributes input to quarterly long‑term plan reviews and publishes a monthly long‑term plan summary to leadership.
• Develops planning-based cost estimates for major maintenance activities and long‑lead requirements.
• Converts the 12‑month plan into a rolling 3‑month scheduling window (3MS) updated monthly.
• Develops a multi-year shutdown schedule to optimise downtime and align with production requirements.
• Produces regular reporting on the long-term maintenance plan and risk items for optimization.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Fixed plant experience

Asset lifecycle strategy

Multi-year shutdown scheduling

SAP PM / CMMS

WA C Class License

Education

Engineering qualification

Trades background

Maintenance planning certs (CMRP/ISO55000)

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Liontown is seeking a Long Term Planner – Maintenance for our Kathleen Valley site on an 8:6 FIFO roster. This role maintains and updates the long-range maintenance plan across crushing, grinding, flotation, and materials handling, translating LoM and asset inputs into an executable programme.

You will map maintenance events from 6 months to 5 years ahead, supporting major shutdown campaigns and optimising resource availability to minimise downtime.