Global Maintenance Strategy & Planning Lead

The Opportunity:

• The Global Maintenance Strategy & Planning Lead is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the global maintenance strategy and planning framework across all CSL

• Behring manufacturing sites.

• This role sets the long-term direction for how maintenance work is

• prioritized, planned, scheduled, and resourced to support safe, compliant, and reliable operations.

• The position provides strategic leadership for maintenance planning standards, shutdown and outage planning, asset care portfolios, and integration with reliability, capital, and MRO programs.

• All responsibilities must be executed in alignment with CSL’s patient-focused mission and Core Values, and with a strong emphasis on safety, quality, and cross-cultural collaboration.

The Role:

• Global Maintenance Strategy and Roadmap -

• Define and maintain the enterprise maintenance strategy and long-range roadmap that supports CSL’s operational, quality, and supply objectives across all sites.

• Align maintenance strategy with global engineering, reliability, capital planning, and operations to ensure asset care supports product supply, lifecycle management, and risk reduction.

• Establish global maintenance objectives, performance targets, and key metrics, and ensure they are consistently applied across the network.

• Translate strategy into actionable multiyear plans, including resource and capability requirements for maintenance and planning organizations at site and regional levels.

• Regularly review strategy based on performance trends, regulatory expectations, technology changes, and business priorities, and adjust the roadmap accordingly.

• Network Planning and Work Management-

• Define and govern the global framework for CMMS (SAP maintenance) planning and scheduling, including standardized work management processes, roles, and responsibilities.

• Establish global standards for preventive and predictive maintenance planning, shutdown and turnaround planning, campaign planning, and coordination with production schedules.

• Ensure that job plans, task packages, safety requirements, and spare parts needs are systematically incorporated into maintenance plans in line with cGMP expectations.

• Define planning and scheduling KPIs (for example, schedule adherence, PM compliance, planning effectiveness) and use them to drive continuous improvement across the network.

• Partner with site leaders to optimize the balance between planned and corrective work, reducing unplanned downtime while supporting production commitments.

• Systems, Data, and Digital Maintenance Planning-

• Provide global leadership for maintenance planning-related systems and data structures, including CMMS and SAP PM planning functions, work order flows, and master data.

• Define standards for maintenance plans, task lists, equipment hierarchies, and asset criticality models to enable consistent planning and reporting across sites.

• Support the integration of predictive and condition-based maintenance insights into planning and scheduling processes, leveraging digital tools, advanced analytics, and AI where appropriate.

• Collaborate with IT, digital, and data teams to improve data visibility, dashboards, and decision support tools used for maintenance planning and capacity management.

• Promote data quality, standardization, and effective use of network-wide maintenance performance data in business reviews and strategic planning.

• Global Collaboration, Best Practices, and Capability Building-

• Partner with site engineering, maintenance, operations, quality, EHS, supply chain, and finance to ensure maintenance strategy and planning practices are aligned with business needs and compliance expectations.

• Lead or coordinate global communities of practice focused on maintenance strategy, planning and scheduling, and work management excellence.

• Develop and maintain global training materials, playbooks, and toolkits that support effective maintenance planning and scheduling at all CSL sites.

• Facilitate workshops, coaching, and mentoring for planners, schedulers, and maintenance leaders to build capability and reinforce standardized practices.

• Demonstrate flexibility in work hours to support collaboration with global stakeholders in different time zones and to support critical planning events.

• People and Culture Expectations-

• Model CSL’s Core Values of Patient Focus, Innovation, Integrity, Collaboration, and Superior Performance in al