Maintenance Planner

Kinrise is a growing, privately owned powerhouse in Australian food manufacturing with some of Australia’s most loved and innovative brands. We describe ourselves as a ‘start up with scale’ and have a burning ambition to grow our business. Formed in 2018 the Kinrise portfolio covers Biscuits, Breakfast, Baking, Bakery, and Snackfood categories and has 40 years making iconic Australian food, with a rich Australian heritage that’s grounded in family origins.

This role is responsible planning maintenance activities via FIIX and managing contract service providers. This role also co-ordinates activities and resources on the site and develops timelines, budgets and coordinates the engineering/maintenance stores at the site, including inventory, ordering, and store management.

Key Accountabilities:

Maintenance Planning

• Administering all aspects of planned maintenance in CMMS including developing detailed BOM’s, PMs, equipment histories etc.

• Liaising with the Reliability teams as well as contractors, Manufacturing Manager and Production Schedulers

• Sponsoring compliance with statutory and company policy guidelines with particular focus on work method safety and routine servicing of essential services

• Plans major overhaul activities across the calendar year establishing resources, budgets and production availability

• Coaching other Maintenance staff in best practice maintenance methodologies

• Reviewing suitability of component specification

• Developing and administering Maintenance KPI’s

• Managing some minor replacement projects

• Supporting other process improvement teams with maintenance expertise as required

• Planning, Implementation and effectiveness review of maintenance activities.

• Plans to ensure that all materials for the above are available (timely)

• Problem solving/FMEA and data analysis

Stock Management

• Ensure the correct quantity of goods are received, stored and available for use, that all goods are receipted, and that stores and office areas are kept tidy.

• Partner with vendors and procurement to ensure cost-effective and timely supply of quality parts.

• Develop and manage Store lay-out to ensure efficient use of space and ease of parts retrieval aligned with OES 5s practices.

• Complete stocktaking and maintain accurate stock records.

• Create equipment trees and Bills of Materials (BOMs) with risk-based allocation of spare parts.

• Partner with trades team members to develop strategies to identify critical spares based on risk (proactive stock management).

• Assist in preparations for major machine overhaul works

Continuous improvement

• Identify and implement approaches to improve to stock management e.g. use of predictive maintenance to determine part replacement

Cost, efficiency and sustainability

• Conduct day to day cost analysis for Repairs and Maintenance budget, prepare weekly reports, monthly and annual reports and budgets.

• Deliver projects on time and on budget.

Skills and attributes:

• Strong problem solving, project management, customer relationship, and communication skills.

• Ability to work as part of a team; lives the company values and leads for purpose.

Experience:

• At least 5 years in a Maintenance or Manufacturing environment, ideally within FMCG.

• Experience in engineering stock control and planning

• Sound knowledge of database systems. SAP and FIIX experience preferred

Qualifications:

• Mechanical or Electrical trade.

• Engineering or equivalent degree qualification preferred

Why Join Us?

Kinrise is a fast paced, agile business that focuses on your talents and challenges you to perform at your best. An opportunity with us would mean:

• An opportunity to work with leading Australian-made brands and products

• An exciting role in a growing business with a great history and an ambitious growth agenda

• Supportive and collaborative team culture

Kinrise is committed to creating