Maintenance Planner - Primary Processing

Red-Stag-Timber; Rotorua; On-site; NZD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Stag Timber, New Zealand’s largest sawmill, invites an experienced Maintenance Planner to join the Primary Processing team at Rotorua. You’ll ensure maintenance activities are planned, resourced and executed to maximise plant reliability and output.

Reporting to the Sawmill Maintenance Co-ordinator, you will coordinate routine and major shutdown work, optimise schedules, and maintain CMMS records while collaborating with maintenance tradespeople, supervisors and operations staff across the

Qualifications

• Develop and coordinate planned maintenance activities.
• Experience with preventative maintenance programmes and reliability practices.
• CMMS experience to plan, manage and record maintenance activities.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills for cross‑team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and coordinate planned maintenance activities to maximise reliability.
• Plan routine maintenance and major shutdown work.
• Coordinate with maintenance tradespeople, supervisors and operations.
• Optimise maintenance schedules and shutdown activities.
• Maintain CMMS data and records and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Maintenance planning

CMMS usage

Excel

Preventive maintenance

Reliability principles

Communication

Education

Level 4 or Advanced Trade Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Fitter/Turner)

Tools

CMMS

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Maintenance Planner - Primary Processing

MAINTENANCE PLANNER – Primary Processing

Red Stag Timber, New Zealand’s largest sawmill, is a privately owned leader in structural timber production employing over 450 staff and contractors. Located just 10 minutes south of Rotorua CBD, this site-based role offers convenient access to forests, lakes and a variety of outdoor activities.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Maintenance Planner to join our Primary Processing team. Reporting to the Sawmill Maintenance Co-ordinator, this role is integral to ensuring maintenance activities are effectively planned and coordinated to maximise plant reliability, equipment availability and operational performance.

As the key link between Operations and Maintenance, you will be responsible for developing and coordinating planned maintenance activities, ensuring work is thoroughly planned, appropriately resourced, safely executed and continuously improved. You will work closely with maintenance tradespeople, supervisors and operations personnel to optimise maintenance schedules, coordinate shutdown activities and support continuous improvement initiatives across the sawmill.

Accurate and timely management of maintenance information within the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is an essential part of the role. Experience with preventative maintenance programmes, reliability practices and equipment diagnostics will be highly regarded.

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

• Extensive heavy industrial maintenance experience.


• Proven experience planning both routine maintenance and major shutdown work.


• A sound understanding of preventative maintenance and reliability principles.


• Experience using a CMMS to plan, manage and record maintenance activities.


• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.


• Excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across maintenance and operations teams.

Applicants must hold a New Zealand recognised Level 4 or Advanced Trade Certificate in Mechanical Engineering (Fitter/Turner) and have a minimum of five years' industrial maintenance experience.

We offer competitive remuneration for the right candidate, together with the opportunity to join a high-performing maintenance team supporting one of New Zealand's largest and most technically advanced timber manufacturing operations.

The successful applicant will be required to complete a pre-employment medical assessment, drug and alcohol screening, and reference checks.

Please note: You must hold NZ Residency to apply for these roles.