Maintenance Planner: Plan, Optimize & Lead Outage Success

Alcoa Corporation; Portland; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Novated car lease

Employee share plan

Superannuation options

Career development opportunities

Long-term progression

Inclusive culture

Safety priority

Job summary

Alcoa Corporation is seeking a Maintenance Planner to join our Portland Aluminium team. You will maximise maintenance and process effectiveness by planning all scheduled activities before work begins, integrating manufacturing and financial requirements into a robust Maintenance Plan.

You will develop weekly plans, coordinate resources, and support daily planning to ensure timely completion while driving safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement across the maintenance group.

Qualifications

• Mechanical (Fitting & Turning) or Electrical Trade Certificate or Degree is advantageous.
• Planning experience is desirable.
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate with all levels.
• Commitment to environment, health and safety in the workplace.
• Attention to detail, organisation and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to coordinate multiple project/planning initiatives within the maintenance group.
• Experience in heavy industry and use of computer-based maintenance systems is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Developing weekly plans and facilitating weekly planning meetings in line with Alcoa planning processes.
• Supporting daily planning processes, making information available to ensure successful work execution in a timely and effective manner as well as capturing outcomes.
• Ensuring people, parts and processes are available for maintenance activities in a timely manner.
• Contributing to maintenance efficiency and effectiveness by participating in reviews of major activities, seeking improvements, reporting on such activities and initiating action where appropriate.
• Assisting in financial budget preparation, forecasting and maintenance strategies; ensuring long-term activity schedules are accurate and up to date.
• Applying problem solving and analysing skills to isolate, diagnose and resolve equipment/process related problems.
• Utilising core operating principles and processes to define failure modes and understand mean time to failure of systems.
• Actively direct and participate in planned outages and performance improvement programs.
• Oversee relevant Mechanical Maintenance Crews.
• Achieve sustained improvements through leadership of the problem-solving process and application of business systems.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

Budget forecasting

Stakeholder communication

Safety compliance

Education

Mechanical (Fitting & Turning) or Electrical Trade Certificate or Degree

Tools

CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System)

Job description

Alcoa Corporation is seeking a Maintenance Planner to join our Portland Aluminium team. You will maximise maintenance and process effectiveness by planning all scheduled activities before work begins, integrating manufacturing and financial requirements into a robust Maintenance Plan.

You will develop weekly plans, coordinate resources, and support daily planning to ensure timely completion while driving safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement across the maintenance group.