Senior Maintenance Planner - Kelso

Simplot Australia is a food manufacturing and agriculture business encompassing potato, vegetable, seafood, and sauce operations that supply a wide range of frozen, shelf-stable and chilled products to Australia and New Zealand’s major retail and food service customers. 

 

As a leading provider of quality, nourishing and sustainable food, we are focused on creating food Australians and New Zealanders love by maximising value from the best Australian-grown produce and global seafood. Our iconic brands have been an integral part of Australian life for generations, and include the likes of Leggo’s, Birds Eye, Edgell, John West and Chiko.

 

We have five manufacturing sites in Australia and six sales sites and employ almost 2000 people across these operations. We are an integral part of the global J.R. Simplot Company.

Culture and Benefits

At Simplot, we are fueled by our purpose: We Contribute to Feeding Our World. We imagine a better future and set goals to reach it. We are committed to working as one Simplot and are guided by our shared values:
 

• Respect for Resources
• Spirit of Innovation
• Passion for People

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. We care about creating an environment that promotes safety and wellbeing and where our people feel supported, respected and empowered. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all our team members.
 

Simplot is passionate about cultivating a future where good ideas and inspiring possibilities have the chance to grow. We want our team members to build exciting and fulfilling careers with us and offer professional and personal growth opportunities.

The Perks

 

• Bonus incentives
• Discounted health insurance options
• Income Protection Insurance
• Novated car leasing agreements
• Fully supplied & laundered uniform, boots & PPE
• Training & development opportunities
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave

About Our Role

An exciting opportunity exists for the permanent full-time position of Senior Maintenance Planner at our Kelso manufacturing plant.  Simplot Kelso is our seafood and snacking processing plant, producing 75 SKUs for the retail and foodservice markets. The site employs about 100 people with approximately 95% of manufactured goods consisting of either Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) or Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) seafood.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, this senior role will manage operational planning & scheduling activities within the engineering department, with a focus on scheduling of maintenance activities in line with the site production plan whilst being guided by safety, quality, environment, cost and operational equipment effectiveness (OEE) targets.

What You Will Do

 

• Supervise and direct the planning and engineering stores team to effectively plan and schedule all project / maintenance work activities in accordance with best practice systems, techniques and Simplot's maintenance work management businesses processes
• Plan and schedule continuous improvement activities and minor capital works as directed by the Engineering Manager.
• Use of CMMS tools, project tools, Gantt charts, critical path analysis and visual scheduling boards.
• Prepare work packages for 'opportunity' maintenance activities.
• Assist the Engineering Manager with the planning and coordination of un-planned maintenance activities including breakdowns and 'opportunity' maintenance as required.
• Coordinate the planning and scheduling of factory down days and shutdowns, and assist in the safe and effective coordination and execution as required by the Engineering Manager.
• Conduct post down day and shutdown reviews to facilitate the continuous improvement of these activities
• Develop, maintain and optimise the site's CMMS such that all information and records are relevant, accurate, current, complete, recorded in a timely manner and supportive of the site's reliability strategy.
• KPI reporting.
• Assist with the preparation of contract documents, service agreements and calling of tenders as required.
• Ensure that asset maintenance activities are planned and scheduled to meet statutory, corporate, legal, safety and environmental standards, codes and policies.
• Liaison with regulatory bodies where appropriate.
• Assist with the development, review and monitoring of the Works' operating and capital budgets as required.
• Contribute to the ongoing deployment and refinement of the site's asset management and reliability strategy

About You

We are seeking candidates with strong mechanical aptitude, drive and motivatio