Maintenance And Reliability Planner

**Posted**:
12/06/2025

**Closing Date**:
11/07/2025

**Job Type**:
Permanent - Full Time

**Location**:
QLD - Murarrie

**Job Category**:
Operations

We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years. A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together. Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.

Job Description

**Your opportunity to join our team at Murarrie**

As the Reliability and Maintenance Planner you will be responsible for the planning and master scheduling of all maintenance activities within the facility. Your role will be responsible for the development and implementation of the preventative maintenance plan for the lifespan of equipment and to ensure it is maintained in the most cost effective and productive way possible and that planning windows are made available for priority works to take place.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Develop, monitor and implement maintenance plans for the site based on criticality of equipment to the site, known requirements, corrective requests, CBM inputs and legislative guidelines
- Ensure the execution of safety and quality assurance practices with all repairs and maintenance activities and plan for corrective actions according to priorities
- Hold team members accountable when they fail to meet QHSE practices
- Drive Inghams Way asset management standards through ensuring high level of work practices
- Develop, communicate and monitor performance against KPI's
- Use key lead indicators to implement an improvement plan
- Contribute to the capital planning and budgeting process by forecasting future needs and identifying improvement opportunities
- Implement strategies to ensure that the labour cost base is the most productive, efficient and cost competitive in the industry
- Hold section/teams accountable for achieving expected outcomes, delivering section goals and results
- Manage team to meet expected performance using coaching, delegation and recognition
- Openly communicate and involve the entire workforce to set high safety standards and confront risks
- Define team targets, monitor performance and resolve issues relating to animal welfare, food safety and quality complying with Ingham's Minimum Standard Procedures
- Partner with the engineering team to measure and improve the group benchmarking results
- Liaise with Maintenance Managers to ensure the effective operation of site equipment

**Key requirements**:

- Experience as a Maintenance Planner in a 24/7 operation
- Experience in planning and scheduling that has site services in ammonia refrigeration, compressed area advanced waste water and trade waste treatment
- Experience within a culture of 5S, TPM, LEAN/Six Sigma and CMMS (MAXIMO)
- Has previously delivered improvements, maintenance practices and performance
- Demonstrated results in implementing maintenance tactics to improve reliability
- Strong working knowledge of best practice maintenance management and systems
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to develop relationships and influence senior stakeholders based on comprehensive data analysis
- Proven project management skills with capability to manage multiple tasks, measure performance and meet deadlines while holding self and others accountable
- Proven attention to detail with skills data analysis, information processing and problem solving
- Degree or post trade qualifications in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Post trade qualifications in Maintenance Management

We're looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us; people who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering deliciously good food that's Always Good