Maintenance Planner

•    Six-month Fixed Term Contract
•    Have access to our company benefits
•    Free product to take home every day

About the role 
 
We are currently looking for a Maintenance Planner for out Townsville site. The primary role of the Maintenance Planner is to improve the reliability team’s productivity and quality by anticipating and eliminating potential breakdowns through planning, scheduling, and coordination of Reliability resources, parts, materials, and equipment access. 

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager the role is responsible for the efficient and effective planning and scheduling of all resources to conduct maintenance activities, minimising downtime and maximising productivity. The Planner is empowered to manage work priority, develop job plans, define parts and material, define crafts and skills, and engage the proper resources to develop a safe, effective, and efficient job plan. 
 

The Maintenance Planner is required to routinely perform and or observe PMs performed to better understand ways to streamline or improve existing PM’s.
 
Key responsibilities of the role:

•    Principle contact and liaison between the Reliability Team and Operations planning 
•    Establish, maintain, and improve MEX CMMS, Maintenance Planning and Scheduling business flow process 
•    Reviews all planned work requests from assigned areas and determine validity and accuracy of information and engage the appropriate resources 
•    Identifies work requiring engineering design and reviews them with the Maintenance Manager 
•    Obtain and organize all information required for the Trade Team to perform the work 
•    Identifies and secures all parts and material required to complete the work 
•    Provide a total cost estimate for the work to be performed: labour, material, and outside services 
•    Works with Reliability Manager, Supervisors to determine resource availability 
•    Keep accurate metrics on the performance of planning and scheduling functions and provide timely reports to the Maintenance Manager 
 

About You 

•    Extensive maintenance planning experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment 
•    Trade qualified – highly desired 
•    Experience utilising MEX or similar CMMS 
•    Experienced in Microsoft office suite. Excel proficient desirable 
•    Highly organised, able to think strategically as well as problem solve 
•    Strong ability to build effective internal and external working relationships at all levels 
•    Effective communication and influencing capability 
•    Strong safety mindset in all facets of work 
•    Demonstrated analytical capability and an ability to effectively problem solve  
•    Role model our values SAFE, COURAGEOUS, TRUSTING and COLLABORATIVE 

About Us

Why Join Us?

At Tip Top Bakeries, we're proud to produce an extensive range of wholesome sliced bread, muffins, crumpets, pies, and bakery snacks. Our purpose of ‘Everyday Moments of Goodness' represents the lives we touch and the difference we make. Those moments that bring a smile, make us proud, or keep us safe, are moments we strive for through our work.

We take pride in supporting our people to learn, grow, and develop throughout their careers with Tip Top Bakeries. We believe in the power of an inclusive and diverse workforce and invest in meaningful initiatives to remove barriers and enable our employees to have a satisfying and rewarding career with us. Our vision for Tip Top Bakeries is an organisation where everyone belongs, everyone is valued, and everyone has equal opportunity.

Join the team and be part of one of our iconic brands like Tip Top, Abbotts Bakery, Bürgen and Golden.

Working with Tip Top, we offer many benefits including:

•    Family-friendly policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave, additional paid time off to ease back to work and ongoing superannuation contributions during unpaid parental leave
•    Recognition and award programs, including access to our online rewards platform
•    Health and wellbeing programs including access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program, and on-site physiotherapy services
•    Flexible working options
•    Access to an extensive range of internal trainings and development programs for your career
•    Financial support for approved study pathways, as well as traineeship and apprenticeship programs
•    Two paid volunteer days per year as part of our focus on Community Partnerships
•    Novated Leasing Options

Start the Conversation

If this role sounds like you and you’re eager to learn, grow, and help create everyday moments of goodness, we want to hear from you. To apply for this opportunity please submit your application by clicking on the ‘apply now' button.

Our Recruitment Process typically consists of a brief, prearranged telephone or video call, followed by 1-2 interviews in-person or over Zoom/Teams. We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support your accessibility needs. Let us know your needs in providing a positive, barrier-free recruitment process via phone on (02) 9168 4200 or email to ttpeopleservices@gwf.com.au . Please do not call to enquire about this position as the phone number is for requesting accessibility needs only.

During the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which include a medical (includes drug & alcohol testing) and a criminal record check.

At Tip Top we strive to create a place where Everyone belongs, Everyone is valued, and Everyone has equal opportunity.

We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disability.