Maintenance Planner

From humble beginnings as a butcher shop, Primo is now a household name on a journey to being a purposeful food brand. We hold market leading positions, across a house of brands, in multiple categories from Smallgoods to Cheese Snacking.We are truly local for local, dedicated to serving our Customers and Consumers without politics: strategy, production and execution starts and ends here, and we are not burdened by the overbearing processes and approvals that often constrain companies of our size.And last but not least, we are building a culture to match the ambition and we are proud to be part of the JBS Group.About the RolePrimo Foods have a rare opportunity for a Maintenance Planner to join the team on a permanent full-time basis in Wacol, Brisbane. The purpose of this role is to develop and implement a sustainable preventative maintenance program throughout the plant. This includes scheduling of major works and development of preventative plans.Your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinate and control all ongoing preventative and follow-up maintenance, including capital works planning when required.
• Plan, schedule and co-ordinate all shut downs and plan for machine availability for the Engineering Team via the production planning/management teams, ensure the weekly meetings are continued and maintained with a good outcome.
• Ensure all jobs/notifications that are requested are then scheduled, investigated, planned, executed and completed on time and within budget.
• Have an active role with maintaining the Engineering Budget allocation, also keeping the budget tracker up to date.
• Preparation and ordering necessary spare parts and materials for planned tasks
• Monitor spare parts holdings and availability of critical spares, assist in setting up machine BOMs for all assets with parts.
• Schedule and track maintenance policy work orders
• Initiate plant wide mechanical and electrical installation compliance and testing
• Ensure all schematics are retained, updated and maintained as required
• Provide information for reporting to the Engineering management team.
• Maintain all Preventative Maintenance plans for the Engineering, Statutory and Compliance requirements.
• Produce actions to fix root cause and prevent failures from reoccurring. Review downtime on machines and update the PM's to suit.
• Ensure all employee within the Engineering departments are fully trained in SAP as per our SOP's. & Procedures.
• Lead, train and control the Take 5 allocation for the Engineering Team, keep a tracking and training register up to date.
• Maintain the paper-based compliance register an ensure it's up to date and also save documents to the company drives as required.
• Maintain and train Engineering and Contractors for all permits, e.g. permit to work, hot works, etc.
• Contractor Management.

About you:

• High attention to detail
• Relevant trade/diploma qualifications with a mechanical or electrical focus.
• Proven preventative planning experience.
• Sound technical understanding of the Plants equipment and maintenance programs.
• Provide maintenance strategies for optimum performance.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Drive and focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong computer literacy
• Knowledge of work planning and scheduling procedures.
• Sound knowledge and experience with electronic materials management systems (SAP desirable).

Why work for Primo?

• Reward & Recognition program
• Access to novated leasing options
• Health insurance and retail discounts
• Ongoing training and career development opportunities

What next?If you're passionate and want to be a part of the largest meat, pork and salmon manufacturer and producer in Australia, this opportunity may be for you. Apply now!