Planning & Scheduling - Springbok Foods

Springbok Foods; Gold Coast City; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Springbok Foods is seeking a Maintenance Planner to join our Burleigh, QLD team. The role requires organising maintenance scopes, creating schedules, and ensuring parts, tools, and documentation are managed effectively within our CMMS.

You will coordinate with operations and subcontractors to balance factory goals with repair needs, while upholding safety standards and company policies. Immediate start available, full-time position on site.

Qualifications

• Level of skill commensurate with AQF Associate Degree/Advanced Diploma or Diploma with maintenance planning focus.
• 1+ year of relevant experience required; or 3+ years substituting for formal qualification.

Responsibilities

• Define scopes, instructions, and time estimates before maintenance tasks begin.
• Ensure spare parts and tools are available, ordered, and organized.
• Design and oversee preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.
• Create and track work orders and inventory in CMMS.
• Coordinate with operations, stockrooms, and subcontractors.
• Ensure procedures meet safety regulations and company policies.
• Develop schedules based on equipment needs and factory timelines.
• Coordinate labour, materials and external vendors for tasks.
• Initiate requests, plan scheduling, and analyze maintenance activities.

Skills

Maintenance planning

CMMS

Safety awareness

Education

AQF Associate Degree

Advanced Diploma

Diploma

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Maintenance Planner

Vacancy Listing Dates 8/09/2026 to 6/10/2026
Please Quote Reference Number 18487

• Immediate start available
• Remuneration: $80,000 - $90,000 per annum
• Join the team at Springbok Foods in Burleigh, QLD

Springbok Foods is a national wholesale distributor and retailer of the largest range of South African groceries and good products in Australia.

We are looking for a Maintenance Planner to join our Team at our Burleigh Factory.

Key responsibilities:

• Define job scopes, step-by-step instructions, and time estimates before maintenance tasks begin.
• Ensure spare parts and tools are available, ordered, and organized efficiently.
• Design and oversee routine, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs to reduce unexpected equipment failures and downtime.
• Create, prioritise and track work orders, inventory levels, and documentation inside a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System).
• Communicate between operations, stockrooms, and sub-contractors to balance factory goals with repair needs.
• Ensure maintenance procedures align with safety regulations and company policies.
• Develop daily, weekly, and long-term maintenance schedules based on equipment needs, availability of parts, and factory timelines.
• Coordinate labour, materials, tools, and external vendors required for maintenance tasks.
• Initiating and authorizing requests, planning and scheduling tasks, and reporting and analysing maintenance activities to ensure operational efficiency in the workflow process.

To be considered you will need a level of skill commensurate with a relevant AQF Associate Degree, Advanced Diploma or Diploma and at least 1 year of relevant employment experience; OR; at least 3 years of relevant employment experience may substitute for the formal qualification.

This is a full time role, an immediate start is available. A remuneration package of $80,000 - $90,000 per annum is on offer to the successful candidate.