Maintenance Planner and Engineer

About the role

InfraBuild Mesh, a steel mesh manufacturer with facilities across Australia, is hiring a Maintenance Planner and Engineer for its Newcastle Mesh site in Mayfield, NSW. Reporting to the Process and Reliability Engineer, the role plans, schedules and coordinates maintenance across the site, manages the maintenance backlog and planning horizon, and supports maintenance and operations teams with breakdown troubleshooting, shutdown planning and continuous improvement. It is a permanent full-time position with flexible start times of 8am or earlier.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage proactive mechanical and electrical maintenance planning and scheduling systems
• Build preventative maintenance schedules for all equipment on site
• Develop asset registers, job plans, bills of materials and maintenance procedures
• Schedule preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance, including planned asset downtime
• Coordinate with production teams to minimise disruption during maintenance windows
• Collaborate with tradespeople, production and leadership to improve maintenance planning

Required profile

• Relevant trade qualification and/or tertiary engineering qualification (mechanical, electrical or similar); formal maintenance planning or reliability qualifications highly regarded
• Proven experience in maintenance planning in an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Strong understanding of maintenance practices and asset management principles
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using root-cause analysis, FMEA or other reliability improvement methods

Required skills

• SAP PM experience, or other preventative maintenance systems
• Risk assessment, contractor management, supervision and maintenance execution experience highly regarded

What we offer

• Permanent, full-time hours with job security
• Quarterly company bonus
• Paid parental leave (20 weeks) and partner leave (3 weeks), with superannuation contributions during unpaid leave
• Discounted corporate health insurance and employee discounts