Production Planning Analyst

Organisation/Entity: Sydney Trains

Job category: Rail Operations

Job location:
Auburn, NSW, AU, 2144

Job reference number: 101950

Employment type: Permanent Full-Time

Salary range: $ $

You crave a career that pushes you, where you'll meet challenges head on and you're guaranteed to grow.

Here's your chance to design and deliver efficient, customer-focused services that also enhance accessibility, sustainability and overall quality of living for more people than you've imagined.

In this role, you'll:

Working within our Production Planning Lead Team at Sydney Trains, the primary purpose of our Production Planning Analyst role is to be accountable for developing, sustaining and continually improving the production planning processes, tools and practices required by the Maintenance Directorate to forecast and deliver current and future production calendars and data integrity.

About you

You will execute safety responsibilities, authorities and accountabilities consistent with Sydney Trains safety management system requirements.

You will facilitate the collection of maintenance scheduling requirements for various asset types and develop production planning rules and best practices to support an effective and efficient maintenance scheduling system.

You will take responsibility for the creation of maintenance schedule tasks for new equipment ensuring their compliance with the Technical Maintenance Plan (TMP) including the safety requirements and their alignment with the existing equipment.

This role will see you implement new/revised TMP across the network ensuring the maintenance schedule tasks are compliant with the standards and conduct risk analysis ensuring impact of the change is understood and risk is mitigated and communicated.

You will also contribute to the provisioning of maintenance services for future assets following capital projects ensuring the timely development of production plans.

You will also monitor the effectiveness of the plans and even distribution of the workload and lead continuous improvement of production plans, data integrity and production planning processes and tools.

You will utilise SAP (EAM) to manage maintenance data, scheduling tasks and reporting to support planning accuracy and compliance.

You shall work closely with stakeholders to ensure SAP data integrity, streamline scheduling workflows and implement improvements within the system.

For more information on this position and business unit, please view the role description.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

At Sydney Trains, our rail services keep Sydney moving by putting our customers at the centre of everything we do. We work with our local communities to deliver safe, timely and efficient rail services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Our trains and network are evolving to meet the needs of our customers now and well into the future. We're continuing to integrate technological innovations that help us deliver a smarter and more sustainable network.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you'd like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

This is an in-person, on-site role.

What are you waiting for…? Connect with us. Apply now

Applications close: 11:59 pm Friday 10 October 2025.

For more information about this role, please contact BEN..NSW.GOV.AU.

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