Imex Planning Coordinator

**IMEX Planning Coordinator**
- North Sydney location - Permanent role
- Monday to Friday dayshift roster

**About us**

Pacific National (PN) is the largest private provider of diversified rail freight services in Australia. We haul a variety of freight including coal, intermodal containers, steel, and a range of bulk commodities and materials that keep the region’s economy, businesses and households running. We are a company built on solid foundations and we are incredibly proud of the essential role we continue to play supporting Australia’s supply chain. At Pacific National, we take great pride in delivering our best every day and have a relentless focus on customer service and place **safety above all else**.

We operate nationally with approximately 3,500 staff in over 90+ sites across Australia. We respect and care for the communities in which we operate and continue to evolve our community engagement and strengthen relationships through partnerships and investment. We are focused on reducing the carbon emissions of our business, while also enabling the reduction of carbon emissions in the broader supply chain to support the National targets.

**About the role**

In this exciting planning coordinator position, you will be responsible for coordinating the operations of our IMEX business both focusing on our customers and ensuring the planning, scheduling, and execution of the train services, associated assets, labour and maintenance planning run according to plans and customers’ expectations. This position has a strong focus on engaging and building solid relationships with our internal stakeholders as well as our customers, you will achieve this by collaborating with our stakeholders to maintainer consistency with asset and labour plans.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Effectively plan train services including maintenance events and activities according to client requirements and plan in place. This includes access confirmation, maintaining and improving achievability, including managing complimentary tasks such as shunting, maintenance activities, provisioning, etc.
- Trouble shoot clients issues. Openly communicate with all involved in movement of Customers Containers
- Act as a point of contact regarding movement of all containers
- Coordinate receival windows and train/container scheduling to meet cut offs
- Coordinate short to medium term planning for train services, critical assets, and labour to optimise efficiency and effectiveness.
- Act as an interface and engage with relevant port authorities
- Coordinate customer activities
- Review the effective utilisation and optimisation of assets
- Ensure compliance with asset deployment and maintenance plans
- Assist with managing the requirements for rail possession planning, ensuring customer plan is organised correctly and customers have full understanding of impact
- Any additional tasks as required to successful perform the role

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will be expected to demonstrate strong problem solving abilities, along with innovative and creative thinking You will be able to demonstrate relationship management strengths and agility to be able to respond to and amend plans as changes occur.

In addition:

- Tertiary qualification in a relevant business discipline or relevant experience.
- Experience in rail or other heavy transport industries, including specialist or technical knowledge of transport, logistics planning and operations
- Strong problem-solving capability
- Ability to lead through others using a collaborative approach
- Ability to continuously improve systems, process and human factors

**The benefits**

At Pacific National we value diversity, inclusion and the contribution of each team member. Our values underpin our commitment to create an inclusive culture where everyone is accepted and valued for who they are, enabling everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.

When you join the Pacific National team, you’ll be encouraged to take ownership of your career and we’ll be there to support you with a range of exciting initiatives including:

- Industry leading programs focussed on your growth and career development
- Paid parental leave up to 12 weeks for primary carers at full pay after 12 months service
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- A focus on your mental health and wellbeing through our PeerConnect program
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, administered by Benestar, offering confidential counselling services for employees and their eligible family members, paid for by us at no cost to you
- Access to Unmind, a digital platform that gives you access to tools, training and exercises that will support your mental wellbeing
- Discounted fitness and wellbeing benefits with membership to WhereFit, our wellbeing benefits partner
- Novated leasing and discounts on selected health insurance funds, travel, retail brands, vehicles and more.

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