Maintenance Planner

About One Harvest 

One Harvest is one of Australia's leading fresh food businesses, with more than 1,000 team members helping nourish Australian families every day. We're driven by innovation, sustainability and continuous improvement, and we offer meaningful work in a fast-paced, purpose-led environment where safety, quality and care come first. 

About the Role 

 

We're looking for an experienced Maintenance Planner to join our Reliability team and help drive a more proactive, structured and efficient maintenance function across our 4 national operations. 

 

Reporting to the National Reliability Manager, this role is responsible for establishing and maintaining best-practice maintenance planning, scheduling and CMMS disciplines, while supporting site Reliability teams to improve equipment performance, maintenance efficiency and asset reliability. The role will play a key part in enhancing maintenance visibility, improving work order execution, optimising spare parts management and ensuring maintenance activities are planned and delivered safely and effectively. 

 

This is a national role that works closely with Reliability Managers, site maintenance teams, operations, procurement and contractors to create consistency across the network and support continuous improvement initiatives. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

• Develop, manage and optimise maintenance planning and scheduling processes for preventative, predictive, corrective and proactive maintenance activities. 

• Maintain and continuously improve CMMS (MEX) master data, including assets, preventative maintenance plans, spare parts and labour records. 

• Coordinate planned maintenance shutdowns, major maintenance activities and capital project maintenance requirements. 

• Manage maintenance work requests, scope required resources, prioritise work orders and coordinate maintenance execution. 

• Monitor maintenance compliance, schedule adherence, labour utilisation and maintenance KPI performance. 

• Support spare parts management, critical spares identification and inventory optimisation initiatives. 

• Facilitate FMEA activities and work with Reliability teams to enhance maintenance strategies and preventative maintenance programs. 

• Partner with production, quality, safety and logistics teams to maximise equipment availability while ensuring statutory, food safety and safety requirements are met. 

• Coordinate contractors and service providers to ensure maintenance activities are delivered safely, efficiently and on schedule. 

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase planned maintenance, reduce reactive work and improve asset reliability. 

 

About You 

 

You're an organised and detail-oriented maintenance professional who enjoys bringing structure to complex operational environments. You thrive on planning ahead, coordinating multiple stakeholders and using systems, data and processes to improve maintenance performance. 

You have a strong understanding of maintenance planning principles and can confidently balance operational demands, resource availability and asset reliability requirements. You enjoy collaborating with maintenance and production teams and are passionate about continuous improvement, safety and equipment reliability. 

 

Essential Requirements 

• Trade qualification or Engineering qualification in Mechanical, Electrical or a related discipline. 

• Previous maintenance planning experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment. 

• Experience planning and coordinating preventative maintenance programs, shutdowns and maintenance schedules. 

• Strong knowledge of maintenance planning processes and CMMS platforms. 

• Experience maintaining CMMS master data and generating maintenance reports and KPIs. 

• Strong organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills. 

• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively across multiple sites and stakeholder groups. 

• Australian working rights. 

 

 

Desirable Experience 

• Experience using MEX CMMS. 

• FMCG, food manufacturing or high-speed processing and packaging experience. 

• Experience with reliability improvement methodologies including FMEA, RCA and continuous improvement frameworks. 

• Experience managing maintenance contractors and statutory maintenance requirements. 

• Exposure to maintenance budgeting, shutdown planning and capital project support. 

• Previous trade background. 

 

Why Join Us? 

• Play a key role in transforming maintenance planning and reliability capability across a national manufacturing network. 

• Help establish best-practice maintenance systems, processes and CMMS disciplines. 

• Work closely with experienced reliability, engineering and operational leaders across the business. 

• Drive measurable improvements in maintenance performance, equipment reliability and operational efficiency. 

• Join a values-driven organisation with ongoing learning and development opportunities. 

 

Apply Now 

If you're a maintenance planning professional looking to make a meaningful impact by improving maintenance performance, reliability and operational effectiveness across a national manufacturing business, we'd love to hear from you.  One Harvest is committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunity to succeed.