Labour Planner

Leverage your rostering, planning, scheduling, or service delivery background with our Labour Planning role that offers a rotating dayshift roster including weekends

**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**

Working as part of a dynamic, collaborative team, you will play an important role in planning our labour/train crew for a 30-hour time horizon. The key objective of this role is to effectively engage with the operations team to finalise labour for the working roster, aligning crew availability with the business requirements.
- **Note: you will be required to work 10hr - 12hr shifts on a rotating Daywork roster including weekends and public holidays**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Development of rosters, assigning crew to align with requirements and EA conditions.
- Development of variation and changes required or solutions necessary to enable recovery to plan.
- Responsible for service plan management which identifies conflicts, constraints, efficiency, and effectiveness opportunities.
- Contribution to the deployment of new and existing services with operations group to improve both business and customer performance.

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you'll be expected to demonstrate strong analytical ability and a commitment to problem-solving, coupled with an innovative and creative thinking style. Ideal applicants will be motivated by the prospect of meeting tight deadlines and successfully managing competing priorities. Agility is key for this role as you will be required to respond to and amend plans as changes occur across the operations.

High-level communication is essential, with verbal, written and interpersonal skills integral to success in this role. Ideal applicants will need to demonstrate relationship management experience as a collaborative team player with clear evidence of your ability to build successful stakeholder relationships.

**In addition**:

- Experience in rail, transport, or heavy industry is advantageous, but not essential
- Experience in labour planning or scheduling "day of" operations within a large business
- Ability or willing to be trained to interpret Enterprise Agreements to assist with rostering
- Experience working with multiple computer systems and ensuring data integrity
- Strong attention to detail

**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 Sonder, 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 Fitness passport, our wellbeing benefits partner
- Novated leasing and discounts on selected health insurance funds, travel, retail brands, vehicles and more.

We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for women, and you can visit our Work180 page Pacific National | WORK180 Endorsed Employer to find out more including a list of all of our benefits and policies.

We are seeking applicants who share our values: Make it simple, Share More, Kindness, Gratitude, Curiosity, and Own it. These values h