Maintenance Scheduler

Service Stream; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Online learning system

Discounts across partner brands

Novated leasing

Paid leave

Culture & recognition

Job summary

Service Stream is hiring a Maintenance Scheduler in Clayton, VIC. You will convert planned work into efficient schedules for delivery teams, balancing hazard, defect and maintenance activities with contractual and program priorities.

You will coordinate internal and external resources, monitor capacity, and work with Planning to resolve issues, ensuring timely, cost-aware delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in scheduling, resource coordination or planning in road maintenance or civil construction.
• Ability to understand cost implications of a programmed schedule and justify decisions.
• Commercial awareness of labour, plant, subcontractors and delivery costs.
• Ability to balance priorities, resources and cost when scheduling.
• Experience improving productivity and resource utilisation in field environments.
• Strong communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly and forward work schedules for VRMC maintenance.
• Review planned work, ensuring information, access and dependencies are identified.
• Allocate work to Delivery Teams and Partners by capability and location.
• Optimise sequencing to maximise resources while minimising disruption to road users.
• Manage schedule to meet contractual response times and program commitments.
• Identify scheduling risks and constraints and liaise with Planning to resolve issues.

Skills

Scheduling

Resource coordination

Operational planning

Stakeholder management

Cost awareness

Civil construction knowledge

Education

Cert IV or higher in a technical discipline

Tools

JAMS

Work management systems

Job description

Primary Location VIC - Clayton

Job Description Summary

Service Stream's VRMC team are on the hunt for a Maintenance Scheduler to join our Clayton team!

About the Role

Service Stream is an equal opportunity ASX-listed business that develops and operates Australia's essential services networks across telecommunications, utilities, transport, Defence, and social infrastructure industries. We keep communities connected.

Reporting to the Network Intelligence & Operations Centre (NIOC) Manager, the Maintenance Scheduler is responsible for converting planned and approved work into efficient, achievable and optimised schedules for the Delivery Teams. This role plays a critical part in ensuring defect, hazard and planned maintenance activities are scheduled in accordance with contractual requirements, program commitments, resource availability and operational priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining daily, weekly and forward work schedules for VRMC maintenance activities, including hazard, defect and planned maintenance work.
• Reviewing planned and released work to ensure it is ready for scheduling, with all required information, resources, access requirements and dependencies identified.
• Allocating work to internal Delivery Teams and Delivery Partners based on capability, capacity, geographical location, priority and program requirements.
• Optimising the sequencing of work to maximise labour, plant and resource utilisation while minimising travel, downtime and disruption to road users.
• Managing the daily and weekly schedule to ensure contractual response times, maintenance programs and delivery commitments are achieved.
• Monitoring workforce and Delivery Partner capacity and proactively identifying scheduling constraints, resource shortages and potential delivery risks.
• Working closely with the Planning Team to resolve incomplete, unsuitable or unready work before it impacts the schedule.
• Liaising with Delivery Teams and Work Management Officers to manage changes, emerging priorities, unplanned work and schedule disruptions.
• Balancing urgent hazard work with planned and programmed maintenance activities to maintain an effective and achievable delivery program.
• Updating and maintaining scheduling information within the Work Management Information System (JAMS) to ensure schedule status and work allocation information is accurate and current.
• Ensuring all scheduling activities are undertaken in accordance with contractual requirements, Service Stream processes and the Transport Operating Model (TOM).

About You

• Experience in scheduling, resource coordination or operational planning within a road maintenance, civil construction, infrastructure or similar operational environment.
• Ability to understand cost implication of a programmed schedule and provide justification.
• Demonstrated commercial awareness and an understanding of how scheduling decisions impact labour, plant, subcontractor and overall delivery costs.
• Ability to balance operational priorities, service requirements, resource availability and cost considerations when making scheduling decisions.
• Experience identifying opportunities to improve productivity, resource utilisation and cost efficiency within an operational or field-based environment.
• Managing various internal and external stakeholders with good communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage daily and weekly work schedules in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Experience using work management, scheduling or enterprise systems to manage work programs and resources.
• Good understanding of civil construction, road maintenance or field-based operational activities.
• Formal qualifications (Cert IV or higher) in a technical discipline are a bonus, but not essential if you can demonstrate equivalent knowledge and capability.

About Us

Service Stream is an equal opportunity ASX-listed business that develops and operates Australia's essential services networks across telecommunications, utilities, transport, defence, and social infrastructure industries - we keep communities connected.

Benefits of working with us

• Career development – we offer growth opportunities and support internal mobility.
• You will have access to skill enhancement through our online learning system and onsite training.
• Access - discounts for hundreds of businesses such as Woolworths, Air BNB, The Iconic, JB HI-FI, Dan Murphys, Bupa Health Care, and Specsavers.
• We also offer access to novated leasing and a share matching program.
• Paid leave - parental, cultural, community service, defence, study, corporate volunteering and purchased leave available.
• Culture – we are dedicated to fostering a workplace environment that values diversity and inclusion, and meaningful recognition.
• You will play a key role in building the culture of our new team.

We celebrate diversity at Service Stream and welcome applications from people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with a disability or neurodivergence, and those from LGBTIQA+, Veteran or other diverse groups.

Applications must be received by our system however if you reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process please email us at [e-mail].

Department Field Services

Service Stream, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading national service provider to develop and operate Australia's essential communications, energy and water networks in the telecommunications and utilities industries. We specialise in the design, construction and maintenance of new and existing networks, and deliver end-to-end engineering and asset management solutions on behalf of our blue chip client base.