ABOUT THE ROLE

DSL Port Hedland is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Planner/Scheduler to join our team.
Reporting to the Senior Planner, you will support the planning and scheduling in Fixed Plant, Mobile, Structural Integrity, Building & Housing weekly and shut maintenance activities.

Your duties will include:

• Detail planning of work orders and assign resource requirement for approved non-urgent work.
• Review work in scheduling period taking into consideration asset criticality, statutory work, warranty, repairable/rotable, severity and safety impact.
• Review approved notifications, allocating initial priority for non-urgent tasks and provide feedback to originator on status of the notification.
• Identify materials, tooling, equipment, and resources needed.
• Continuous review of maintenance plan effectiveness in supporting the tactics.
• Review parts readiness (long lead items in conjunction with Long Term Planner); trigger expediting of parts where required.
• Identify any potential scope conflict and repackage the activities, amending duration of required down-time when necessary.
• Identify all resource requirements, both internal and external.
• Engage and arrange external contractors/suppliers and maintain availabilities.
• Develop, finalise, and lock in executable schedules for weekly and shut maintenance (critical path, task interactions, labour requirements, materials, shared equipment, and tooling)
• Liaise with execution leaders to confirm upcoming resource availability.
• Prepare and conduct weekly and shut maintenance meetings.
• Ensure resource utilisation and schedule loading are with-in targets.
• Reconcile monthly spend to ensure adherence to plan and identify opportunities for cost reductions.

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• An ability to build strong relationships and uplift teams
• Display appropriate behaviours, respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset, displaying genuine care.
• Proven SAP experience, particularly in planning and scheduling.
• Experience with executing, scheduling, or planning maintenance activities.
• Exceptional communication & collaboration skills.
• Able to be proactive, flexible, and work independently.
• Highly organised individual with great record keeping.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Complex problem-solving skills and able to deliver solutions.
• Use your considerable stakeholder and relationship building skills to prioritise work with the Supervisors, Superintendents, and external departments.
• Understand & work with Long Term Planners in Zero Based Budget development.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to effectively influence, collaborate and negotiate.
• Knowledge in Microsoft Office (Project, Excel, Outlook, Teams).
• Current Australian C Class Driver’s License