Full job description

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Maintenance Planner at V&V Walsh in Bunbury.

About Us:

V&V Walsh is part of the Craig Mostyn Group. The Craig Mostyn Group is a leading food and agribusiness that has operated over the past 100 years across Australia. Our operations are in Western Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania, where we produce premium quality pork, beef, lamb, abalone, protein meal and tallow for clients and suppliers, here locally and internationally. At the Craig Mostyn Group, our purpose is to provide a sense of belonging where you can grow and develop with us as we aspire to provide high quality and ethical food for generations to come. Our values are embedded in everything we do, where our family of 1400 employees embody these values every day.

The opportunity

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for scheduling, planning, and coordinating all maintenance activities to optimise resources, equipment reliability, and plant availability.

Works closely with Maintenance Supervisor and Manager to deliver preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance programs.

• Develop and maintain short, medium, and long-term maintenance schedules.
• Prioritise work orders and allocate labour and resources effectively.
• Support shutdown planning and delivery of capital maintenance programs.
• Administer the CMMS, including work orders, preventive maintenance programs, asset data, and job plans.
• Maintain accurate records, update job plans, and ensure high data integrity.
• Generate reports and analyse KPIs to drive performance improvement.
• Coordinate weekly planning meetings with Maintenance Supervisor and Production teams.
• Ensure parts, materials, tools, permits, and access are available for scheduled work.
• Coordinate and manage regular contractors for routine servicing and compliance-based maintenance.
• Support urgent breakdown response and schedule adjustments.
• Recommend workflow, planning, and scheduling improvements.
• Standardise job plans for repetitive and critical maintenance tasks.
• Monitor work order completion, backlog, and schedule compliance.
• Ensure all planning activities comply with WHS and food safety standards.
• Include JSA/SWMS in work plans and ensure safe work practices are embedded.

Essential Requirements:

• Trade qualification or engineering background (mechanical/electrical)
• Experience in maintenance planning and scheduling
• CMMS experience
• Strong organisational, analytical, and communication skills

Desirable Skills

• Meat processing experience
• Experience with CMMS

Our Values:

FAMILY: Family values are at the heart of who we are

INTEGRITY: We always try to do what’s right

COLLABORATION: We are one team

CURIOUSITY: We’re open minded and want to learnFull job description

Company Description

Pact Contract Manufacturing is a leading manufacturer across food and industrial aerosols, personal care and industrial liquid filling. Operating a fast-paced 24/5 manufacturing environment, we're looking for an experienced Maintenance Supervisor to lead our maintenance team and drive reliability, safety and operational performance across the site.

Job Description

Reporting to the Site Manager, you'll be responsible for ensuring equipment availability, leading preventative and predictive maintenance programs, managing technical teams and contractors, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives across our manufacturing operation.

About this opportunity

You'll play a key role in ensuring our production lines operate safely and efficiently while driving a proactive maintenance culture focused on reliability and performance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading site maintenance activities, contractors and maintenance trades.
• Driving preventative and predictive maintenance programs.
• Managing SAP PM / CMMS systems, maintenance schedules and work orders.
• Leading root cause analysis and breakdown investigations.
• Supporting production through planned shutdowns, changeovers and equipment commissioning.
• Driving equipment reliability, uptime and OEE improvement initiatives.
• Managing maintenance budgets, spare parts and contractor performance.
• Leading safety, compliance and continuous improvement programs across the site.

About You

To be successful, you'll bring:

• A trade qualification or engineering qualification in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or a related field.
• Proven maintenance leadership experience within FMCG, food, packaging, pharmaceuticals, personal care or a similar manufacturing environment.
• Strong experience managing maintenance teams and contractors.
• Sound knowledge of preventative maintenance, reliability improvement and shutdown planning.
• Experience using SAP PM or CMMS systems.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A hands-on leadership style with a focus on safety, accountability and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

A trade qualification or engineering qualification in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics or a related field.

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