Maintenance Planner (North Rocks)

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We have a long tradition of being a progressive, responsible business. It goes back to the days of our founder William Lever, who launched the world’s first purposeful brand, Sunlight Soap more than 100 years ago, and it’s at the heart of how we run our company today. In 2022 Unilever Australia & New Zealand became a Certified B Corporation™ (B Corp), joining a growing network of organisations committed to galvanising a stronger, more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy for all.  

A job at Unilever is a career made by you, with development opportunities, benefits and a working culture that embraces diversity and is pioneering flexibility. There’s no better time to join our team! 

At Unilever ANZ, we have also embarked on something special: we are proud to be undertaking a 4 Day work week trial. This trial will see our staff retain 100 percent of their salaries, while working 80 percent of the time and delivering 100 percent of business outcomes. The Maintenance Planner (North Rocks) role is designed to be fully functional in the 4-Day work week trial.

Job Summary

We are looking for a motivated Maintenance Planner who will be managing the site CMMS for planned maintenance scheduling for all plant and equipment, including but not limited to preventative, Condition-based and predictive maintenance and lubrication schedules. Safe and efficient Planning and scheduling execution for all critical, and non-critical works, major rebuilds on equipment including parts and resource requirements, to optimise equipment uptime and minimise business risk, ensuring correct work procedures, services, skills, tools, and equipment are identified for planned jobs.

Role Responsibilities:

Plant Reliability and Systems Development

• With the support of the Engineering Maintenance Manager and the Reliability Engineers help establish a world-class asset care program that will achieve high standards of plant reliability and efficiency to enable production to deliver better than budgeted OEE rates and customer service levels. Includes helping develop a bottom-up build of the maintenance program, tools and reporting systems to ensure control over engineering activities.

• Work with Reliability engineers to complete maintenance plans in full in scheduled time.
  • Schedule all planned maintenance activities for the site in CMMS, including all parts and resource requirements. A proactive approach to scheduling in downtime activities with planning teams.
  • Management of the site work order backlog.
  • Establish trade hours estimates of planned maintenance work
  • Schedule all streams of trade activities through CMMS
  • Ensure all necessary parts, services and documentation to perform the
  maintenance work is readily available at the time of use.
  • Responsible for up-keep and accuracy of equipment maintenance history within the CMMSdatabase.
  • Responsible for up-keep and accuracy of technical information on processes, plant and equipment.
  • Work with the Production Scheduler to ensure maintenance work is factored into theproduction plans.
  • Ensure key performance indicators are captured, reported and displayed for equipmentreliability, maintenance department performance and planning and scheduling.

• Work with site systems to capture all work requests and schedules in via CMMS.

• Collaborate with the Engineering Maintenance Manager and the Reliability Engineers to schedule resources for the most effective production and maintenance outcomes.
  • Proactively work with the departmental leadership teams to ensure the effective execution of all required maintenance activities.
  • Participation in all relevant site process audits as and when required.
  • Implement a continuous improvement focus towards the site maintenance systems
   asset care delivery and cost-effectiveness.
  Drive the optimization of Preventative Maintenance schedules, condition monitoring, critical spares, breakdown support, and equipment design where necessary. • Ensuring that all parts are available for breakdown& planned maintenance before scheduling in works required.
  • Create and maintain a critical parts store to minimise risk to the business.
  • Assigning work orders criticality in the CMMS.

Safety and Environment

• Compliance with North Rocks Permit to Work Systems.

• Compliance with Engineering Management of Change Control.

• Ensure compliance with Safety in Aerosol Manufacture Specific Standards.

• Job Safety Assessments.

• Risk Assessments.

• Understand and enforce site safety policies & procedures.

• Process Safety Management System.

• Ensure the completion of near miss/incident reports and subsequent accident and environmental non-conformance investigations.

• Hazard Identification and completion rates.

• Change management system.

• Ensure all site safety/compliance works are scheduled within the plans.

Does this sound like You?

• Must have Engineering and/or trade qualifications.

• Demonstrated experience in planning and or scheduling maintenance activities. (minimum 2years’ experience).

• Demonstrated Technical and analytical experience.

• Experience with computerised maintenance management systems such as MEX (desirable), or similar.

• Advanced MS Office.

• Superior communication, written and verbal.

• Strong organisation skills.

• Superior analytical skills.

What awaits you at Unilever?

The core of Unilever’s culture is captured as Human, Purposeful, Accountable. You will be joining a dynamic, flexible, and inspiring work environment that truly cares about your wellbeing, values what you do and celebrates your success.

This is your opportunity to be part of a purpose-led business and a global community where you can progress your career both locally and internationally. You will also benefit from amazing discounts on external company products, attractive employee referral reward program amongst other benefits.

Make no mistake we expect a lot from our people as they do of us. So, if you can rise to the challenge, don't waste any time - apply now!

If you require reasonable adjustments for the application and recruitment process, please advise us on ANZ.talent@unilever.com.

Unilever is an organization committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities.

This means we encourage people with all backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Māori and Pacific Peoples, and people with disabilities. Interested in learning more, check out our Reconciliation Action Plan and Workplace Adjustment Policy on the Unilever webpage.

At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! We encourage you to advise us at the time of your application if you require any reasonable adjustment so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.