Maintenance Planner: Plant Reliability & Shutdowns

Cement Australia; Gladstone Regional; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cement Australia is seeking a Maintenance Planner to own planning and scheduling across the site’s electrical, mechanical, and contractor work. You will translate weekly plans into major shutdowns, helping keep clinker kilns, mills and cement processing running safely and efficiently.

You will maintain the SAP Plant Maintenance CMMS, generate and close work orders, and partner with Reliability to implement improvements.

Qualifications

• Proven maintenance planning experience, preferably in heavy manufacturing or mining.
• Solid understanding of maintenance systems and work management process.
• Experience using SAP Plant Maintenance CMMS highly regarded.
• Trade qualification in Mechanical or Electrical, or an Engineering degree (Mechanical or Electrical preferred).
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience scheduling complex shutdowns or projects using MS Project highly regarded.
• Strong ability to prioritise, manage competing demands, and collaborate with stakeholders to optimise scheduled work.
• Understanding of budget setting, tracking, and forecasting.
• Excellent communication skills - comfortable working across teams and levels.
• Flexible, ambitious, and keen to grow within the organisation with the ability to influence and drive change.

Responsibilities

• Drive maintenance planning and scheduling across electrical, mechanical and contractor work to ensure equipment is inspected and maintained to specification.
• Maintain SAP maintenance management system with accurate planned maintenance data, work order generation, processing and closeout to reflect schedules and resource requirements.
• Partner with the Reliability team to capture lessons from equipment failures, update maintenance processes, and continuously improve planning to prevent reoccurrence.
• Manage maintenance backlog, monitor KPIs, review equipment modifications against BOMs, and ensure all changes are captured in our systems.
• Lead shutdown planning and execution across all lifecycle phases - preparation, pre-work, work, post-work and feedback, and produce progress S curves.
• Collaborate with Reliability Engineers, team leaders, and Area Coordinators to develop detailed work scopes, delivery plans, and cost forecasts for major projects.
• Champion continuous improvement - challenge the status quo and drive ideas to enhance plant, process, and people performance.
• Support site safety by planning and scheduling work to meet SHE KPIs, ensure relevant SHE documentation is embedded in work orders, and verify all contractors comply with site safety requirements.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Work management

MS Project

Budget forecasting

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Trade qualification in Mechanical or Electrical

Engineering degree (Mechanical or Electrical)

Tools

SAP Plant Maintenance CMMS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Cement Australia is seeking a Maintenance Planner to own planning and scheduling across the site’s electrical, mechanical, and contractor work. You will translate weekly plans into major shutdowns, helping keep clinker kilns, mills and cement processing running safely and efficiently.

You will maintain the SAP Plant Maintenance CMMS, generate and close work orders, and partner with Reliability to implement improvements.