Maintenance Planner: Plan, Optimize & Lead Outages

Alcoa Australia; Lithgow City Council; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Novated car lease

Employee share plan

Superannuation options

Job summary

Alcoa Australia is seeking a Maintenance Planner for our Portland Smelter. You will maximise maintenance and process effectiveness by planning all scheduled activities before work starts, integrating manufacturing and financial needs into a robust maintenance plan.

You will develop weekly plans, run planning meetings, ensure availability of people, parts and processes, and drive improvements across maintenance activities with safety and efficiency at the forefront.

Qualifications

• Mechanical (Fitting & Turning) or Electrical Trade Certificate or Degree is advantageous; planning experience is desirable.
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate at all levels.
• Commitment to environment, health and safety and contribute to safety initiatives.
• Excellent attention to detail, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to coordinate multiple planning initiatives within the maintenance group.
• Experience in heavy industry and use of computer-based maintenance systems is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop weekly plans and facilitate weekly planning meetings in line with Alcoa planning processes.
• Support 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

Planning experience

Strong interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Safety mindset

Education

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

Tools

Computer-based maintenance systems

Job description

Alcoa Australia is seeking a Maintenance Planner for our Portland Smelter. You will maximise maintenance and process effectiveness by planning all scheduled activities before work starts, integrating manufacturing and financial needs into a robust maintenance plan.

You will develop weekly plans, run planning meetings, ensure availability of people, parts and processes, and drive improvements across maintenance activities with safety and efficiency at the forefront.