Maintenance Planner

JBS Carrier Australia; Rockhampton Regional; On-site; AUD 71,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

JBS Carrier Australia is seeking a Maintenance Planner for the Dinmore site in Queensland. This full-time role develops and implements long-term and short-term maintenance plans for mechanical and electrical assets to optimise safety, availability and reliability across multiple cattle feedlots.

Reporting to the Plant Engineer, you will lead maintenance crews, coordinate trades and contractors, manage spares and SAP PM data, and drive continuous improvement in maintenance processes.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of work planning and scheduling with SAP PM.
• Strong maintenance work management practices.
• Advanced electrical or mechanical trade qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate maintenance to ensure production requirements are met.
• Plan, schedule and monitor completion of maintenance work orders.
• Prepare and order spare parts for planned tasks and manage critical spares.
• Develop and maintain SAP PM equipment registers and data.
• Coordinate trades, contractors, and external teams.
• Ensure permits, safety, and compliance requirements are met.
• Lead and develop maintenance crew members and foster continuous improvement.

Skills

SAP PM

Maintenance planning

Leadership

Communication

OH&S knowledge

Problem solving

Education

Advanced electrical or mechanical trade qualification

Tools

SAP PM

MS Office

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 $79,423.00 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 safe 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