Maintenance Planner

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.

An exciting opportunity exists for a Maintenance Planner to join the Engineering team at our Broadford Factory. This role is responsible to ensure that all maintenance activities are planned and executed in an optimized manner, considering factors such as available manpower, production schedule, potential failure severity, safety, food safety, and availability of tools and spare parts.

A day in the life

Reporting to the Engineering Manager and acting as the key liaison with other departments and operational users, key responsibilities include:

• Enable world class maintenance planning in Operations (including operators and technicians), providing assets' Maintenance in according to the Nestlé Strategy while using TPM as the multi-disciplinary approach to maintain/improve fixed assets, and AMM to manage their life cycle.
• Support and contribute to have a proper technical store management.
• Support with data in building the maintenance budget (zero base), supported with the foreseen planned maintenance in each asset, in line with Guidelines.
• Ensure that the maintenance activities in industrial services are planned properly.
• Support the technical stores management through a proper link between the planned maintenance activities and the required spare parts, in advance, to help the whole technical store optimization process.
• Ensure the planning of all maintenance activities are performed considering constrains on safety, food safety, energy/water consumption at factory level by analysing the potential impact of any variable (e.g. high-risk activities, spare parts quality, materials, etc).

What will make you successful

• Joining a collaborative team of specialists, you will be a strong professional with a drive to deliver quality outcomes.
• 3 years' experience in a technical field, preferably food manufacturing or consumer goods industry (as Technician, Engineering Supervisor, maintenance Engineer, or other similar position)
• Experiences as Maintenance Planner, including the planning and coordination of maintenance activities, including maintenance budget, safety permits, coordination with other operational areas, tracking of maintenance KPI's, etc.
• Participation in the coordination and planning of maintenance activities, including mechanical, electrical, electromechanical, instrumentation, industrial services, E&A, and operators basic maintenance activities.
• Exposure to TPM, preventive maintenance planning techniques and maintenance execution preferred.
• Experience participating in a basic SH&E and Food Safety training preferred.
• Recommended to have had participation in the start-up or commissioning of technical equipment and/or production line(s).
• Self-management following defined KPIs/Objectives and proactively tracking them.
• Proven track record in delivering results by working with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and a proven capacity to influence and negotiate to drive high standards of performance and quality.

Benefits

You will have the chance to work with an outstanding and highly engaged team, build and grow your career with an inclusive, global FMCG leader.

In addition, we offer:

• Varied career experiences and personalised development support
• Wellbeing benefits including vaccinations and health insurance discounts
• Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and program
• Paid parental and partner leave
• Purchase Leave Scheme
• Volunteering leave, Sports leave, Emergency Services leave
• Discounted Nestlé products
• Novated Leasing
• Salary Sacrifice to Superannuation

Applicants must have full Australian working rights

Applicants will be required to undergo pre-employment checks, including but not limited to health checks, prior to appointment to this role.

Please note that this role may close earlier than the advertised deadline at our discretion, so we encourage early applications.