Maintenance Planner & Scheduler

Mission - To become the marketing and design partner for small business.

As an e-commerce powerhouse, Vista is a dynamic organisation that maintains an exciting, entrepreneurial culture. We’ve renewed our focus on empowering and helping small businesses. To do this, we create customer value (and delight) through accessible and innovative technology. We thrive on providing opportunities for exploration, collaboration, innovation and growth – for both our customers and our team. Come join us on our exciting journey together! 

Our Manufacturing teams prototype our products and ensure that what we produce is nothing short of world-class. Whether you prefer mechanics or electronics, our production floors offer some of the most advanced technology in modern manufacturing. Within this innovative environment where teamwork and diverse thinking helps us solve exciting problems, our manufacturing teams are a great place to take your career to the next level.  

About the role

The primary focus of this role is to help the business get the best out of its assets through the provision of well designed and technically robust maintenance plans. The incumbent will own the plan and will take pride in building the path to improved maintenance team, contractor and asset performance.  With a reliance upon root cause analysis, reliability centered maintenance, technical agility and teamwork, a focus on safety and environmental risk mitigation and an aim to support the customers – this role is a key in the delivery of the total asset maintenance strategy.

What You Will Be Doing

• Monitoring and analyzing maintenance data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement - continually developing and improving equipment life plans.

• Working with the operations, contractors/OEM technicians and the maintenance team to schedule maintenance activities with minimal disruption to production and communicating those plans effectively with all stakeholders.

• Procuring and managing spare parts, materials, and equipment necessary for maintenance tasks.

• Supporting the development of the annual repairs & maintenance (R&M) and spare parts budgets and tracking expenditure against these budgets.

• Preparing work orders and ensuring all necessary documentation is complete and accurate.

• Tracking and reporting on maintenance performance

• Ensuring compliance with safety regulations and company policies during maintenance activities.

• Standing in for the Maintenance Supervisor during absence (this role is seen as a 2IC for the Supervisor).

What You Will Bring:

• Trade qualifications or tertiary qualifications in an Engineering discipline.

• Ideally, proven experience in maintenance planning and scheduling.

• Strong knowledge of maintenance processes and procedures.

• Excellent organizational and time management skills.

• Proficiency in maintenance management software.

• Ability to read and interpret technical manuals and drawings.

• Ideally, familiarity with SAP and lean manufacturing tools.

Key Attributes:

• Team player with flexible attitude and a passion for equipment reliability

• Adaptive and proactive thinker

• Can-do and positive attitude; always looking to see processes, systems and capabilities continuously improve

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Trustworthy and honest

• Fast thinker with a strong desire for success

• Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills

• Ability to perform functions of the job with a high level of accuracy

OHS Responsibilities

• Adhere to all OHS policies and procedures as provided by the organisation and legislation

• Take reasonable care of themselves and others who may be affected by their actions

• Report all hazards, accidents and incidents immediately

• Ensure that personal protective clothing and equipment is worn and used to perform the job safely.