Maintenance Planner

Company Description
**AFFCO Imlay currently has an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated Maintenance Planner to join their engineering team.**

**AFFCO supplies the world with New Zealand’s finest premium beef and lamb products. We serve over 80 markets globally, supported by an operation which includes twelve processing plants throughout New Zealand.**

**Come and join us and receive some amazing benefits ranging from discounted meat products from our employee store, through to discounted services and shopping such as eye tests, dentist visits, Gilmores Wholesale and much much more through our amazing employee perks program**

**Job Description**:
Reporting to the Plant Engineer, the Maintenance Planner will monitor general maintenance for all departments, coordinate contractors, source quotes for projects, monitor the R&M log controls and liaise with Supervisors to ensure that production requirements are met.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Planning all R&M jobs and ensure appropriate parts are available
- Purchase order completion for the trades department
- Contractor Management, ensuring all liability agreements and insurance details are kept up to date
- Manage electrical and mechanical inventory ensuring stock levels are maintained
- Invoice/packing slip/PO reconciliation for payment
- Ordering all parts
- Oversee and manage compliance register and installation of Mex completed for the Trades Department

Typically working 45-50 hours per week you will generally complete 8-10 hours a day, 5-6 days a week

Rates are determined by relevant experience in the industry with a wage range between $32 and $36 per hour or on average $85,000 per year

**Qualifications**:

- Strong leadership skills, ability to build an engaged team and effectively delegate tasks
- Ability to minimise production downtime
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple competing priorities
- Extensive prior maintenance experience in an industrial environment
- A mechanical trade qualification (electrical knowledge would be an advantage)
- Comfortable working with modern CMMS systems
- Previous experience with MEX would be an advantage
- Intermediate computer literacy
- A supportive, well-established preventative maintenance team
- The ability to make the role their own and autonomously manage day to day operations
- A wide variety of responsibilities, balanced between computer and hands-on work
- Opportunities for career development and advancement

Additional Information

**If you are a driven and motivated individual who is passionate about promoting and driving a zero harm culture then please apply**.