Maintentance Planner

Visy is powering the circular economy, closing the loop between packaging, remanufacturing and recycling. Over 75 years, we've grown to 7,000 employees and 150 global operations –predominately in Australia and New Zealand.

Based at our Gibson Island plant, the Maintenance Planner will report to the Maintenance Manager. This role will be required to oversee 3 sites (Yatala, Carrara and Gibson Island). The position's primary responsibilities include planning and scheduling maintenance works (for the week, month, quarter and year) to optimise labour, materials, external services, costs and duration whilst following all business processes across state’s plants. Critical to the role is the responsibility for the OHS&E of employees, contractors and visitors, demonstrating appropriate Safety Leadership behaviours through your everyday activities.

The Role:

• Actively lead and coach safe work process such as stop and thinks, JSEA creation, SWP development, work permit systems, hazard reporting, safety interaction talks, standard maintenance work development, toolbox discussions
• Maintain an excellent standard of housekeeping through the application of 5S practices
• Lead/drive the maintenance planning and scheduling process
• Develop, document and implement preventative maintenance plans (weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly)
• Lead the maintenance team members in the utilisation of the root cause analysis (RCA) program to ensure that a formalised RCA is conducted on unreliable equipment based on predetermined downtime triggers
• Manage statutory registers and compliances.
• Manage condition monitoring and reporting.
• Create and maintain assets bill of materials.
• Initiate and manage offsite repairs.
• Create/manage goods and service purchase orders
• Develop and manage plant shutdown plans.
• Manage and maintain maintenance spares and inventory
• Lead the maintenance team members in the utilisation of the site CMMS to ensure that correct work order history is maintained with appropriate documentation
• Ensure that the site CMMS information/history and work order are maintained
• Develop and execute process improvements that will result in maintenance cost reduction
• Develop and implement improvement action plans that will drive continuous improvement with regard to plant reliability and site systems of work.
• Ensuring internal and external customer relationships are maintained by resolving issues as they arise.

What you will bring to the team:

• Mechanical or Electrical Tertiary or Trade qualification
• Experience in planning and scheduling comparable plant and equipment within a fast past working environment.
• High level of experience in CMMS utilization(IFS is highly desirable)
• Asset register development
• Criticality Analysis
• Maintenance program development
• Work Instruction development
• Spare parts identification and assessment
• Materials management– Bill of Material creation (BOM)
• Preventative and Predictive maintenance principles

What you’ll love when you join us:

• Access to a range of health, wealth, and lifestyle services and discounts.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support.
• Opportunities for further training and career advancement within the company

Ready to make a difference? and be a key player in shaping our future!

Please contact Chantal Ganesh on [email protected] for a confidential discussion or .

You will be required to meet Visy’s employment criteria which will include a criminal history check.

Visy is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.

These roles are only open to candidates currently residing in Australia with full working rights.

Advertised: 27 Aug 2025 E. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 28 Sep 2025 E. Australia Standard Time