Maintenance Planner - Brendale, QLD

About this role

Maintenance Planner – Brendale, QLD

• Optimise maintenance plans to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
• Lead maintenance planning, shutdowns, and reliability initiatives
• Join a market leader focused on safety and operational excellence.

Join one of Australia's leading building products manufacturers and play a key role in keeping our operations running safely, efficiently, and reliably.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Maintenance Planner to support our Brendale manufacturing operation. This is a hands-on planning role where you'll work closely with maintenance, production, engineering, contractors, and suppliers to develop and coordinate maintenance activities that maximise equipment reliability and minimise downtime.

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for developing and managing preventive, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance plans across the site. You'll ensure maintenance work is properly planned, scheduled, resourced, and executed while driving continuous improvement in maintenance performance and asset reliability.

Key responsibilities include, but is not limited to:

• Develop, maintain, and optimise preventative, predictive, corrective, and shutdown maintenance plans and schedules to maximise plant reliability and minimise downtime.
• Coordinate maintenance work by planning labour, contractors, materials, tooling, permits, and critical spare parts to ensure efficient and safe execution.
• Lead the planning and coordination of major plant shutdowns, capital works, commissioning activities, and asset onboarding projects while maintaining operational continuity.
• Manage SAP maintenance systems, including asset registers, equipment hierarchies, work orders, spares and materials and maintenance strategies, ensuring data integrity and compliance.
• Monitor equipment performance, analyse maintenance metrics and failure trends, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance reliability, productivity, and schedule compliance.
• Partner with production, maintenance, engineering, procurement, and contractor teams to align priorities, control maintenance costs, and ensure all activities meet safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.

 About You:

• Minimum 5 years' experience in a Maintenance Planner role within manufacturing, industrial processing, heavy industry, building materials, FMCG, or similar environments.
• Strong understanding of maintenance planning and scheduling principles.
• Experience managing preventative, predictive, and shutdown maintenance programs.
• Strong understanding of maintenance performance metrics and equipment reliability principles.
• Excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience coordinating contractors and maintenance service providers.
• Strong reporting, systems, and data analysis capability.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

• Mechanical or Electrical Trade qualification, Diploma, or Degree in a related discipline.
• SAP maintenance planning experience.
• Project or capital works experience.
• Continuous improvement and reliability-centred maintenance experience.

What we offer

We strive to support your professional and personal growth. Here are some of the perks you'll enjoy as part of the CSR team:

• Supportive and collaborative culture that fosters innovation and inclusion. You'll be surrounded by talented colleagues who are passionate about their work and committed to helping each other succeed.
• Care and wellbeing offer includes up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave, and access to an employee assistance program.
• Rewarding career with on-the-job learning, development, and upskilling opportunities within and across our brands

How to Apply:

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 If you're passionate about making a positive impact and you see yourself in this role, we'd love to hear from you!

To find out more about us, visit www.csr.com.au

At CSR, we're building a better future together.

We are a team of 2,600 people across Australia and New Zealand, and we are all collaborating every single day towards a shared purpose - 'Building solutions for a better future'. As a leading Australian Manufacturing business, we're at the forefront of developing innovative, sustainable, and high performing building products and systems.  

We have a strong commitment to workplace health and safety and the wellbeing of our people. Successful candidates will be required to undertake a pre-employment medical including drug and alcohol screening and a background check.