Location: Brisbane - Flexibility to WFH 2 days a week
About the role: Help shape the availability, reliability and lifecycle planning of rollingstock components.
Our Asset Management & Strategy Division is seeking a highly capable Senior Maintenance Planner to support the long-term planning, availability and optimisation of rollingstock components and rotable assets across the network. If you excel at demand planning, stakeholder collaboration and long-term materials strategy, this is an impactful role that directly supports maintenance execution and fleet performance outcomes.
In this position, you will be responsible for the strategic planning and coordination of rotable and major component requirements to ensure materials availability aligns with maintenance strategies and operational plans. Your work will enable efficient maintenance execution through effective long-term demand planning, component pool optimisation and strong cross-functional collaboration across supply chain, maintenance planning and operational teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain long-term plans for rotables and major rollingstock components to support fleet maintenance strategies.
- Ensure availability of rotable components to maintenance execution teams through proactive planning and demand alignment.
- Maintain and optimise component pool sizes to balance operational readiness, cost efficiency and asset utilisation.
- Aggregate and analyse demand signals across business units to enable accurate long-term materials planning.
- Align materials planning activities with maintenance strategies, asset lifecycle plans and operational priorities.
- Collaborate closely with Supply Chain, Maintenance Planning and operational stakeholders to ensure smooth transition from planning to execution.
- Work with vendors and suppliers to ensure component availability, quality and cost outcomes meet business expectations.
- Monitor material performance and risks, identifying supply constraints and implementing mitigation strategies.
- Maintain accurate planning data within asset and materials systems to support forecasting and decision-making.
- Provide periodic reporting and insights to line management on material availability, risks, forecast accuracy and planning performance.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance materials planning processes, inventory optimisation and fleet reliability outcomes.
What You’ll Bring
- Demonstrated experience in materials planning, asset planning, supply chain planning or maintenance support environments.
- Strong understanding of rotable management, inventory optimisation and demand forecasting principles.
- Ability to interpret maintenance strategies and translate them into material and component planning requirements.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with experience working with large datasets.
- Advanced capability with Microsoft Office and enterprise asset or supply chain systems.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills across operational, maintenance and supply chain functions.
- Commercial awareness and experience working with suppliers to manage performance, availability and cost outcomes.
- Knowledge of rail, heavy industry, mining or asset-intensive operational environments (desirable).
What we offer you:
At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities.
Some of our benefits include:
- Development and growth opportunities.
- Access to mentoring and development programs.
- Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
- Parental leave program and super booster.
About Aurizon.
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Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets.
Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.
At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.
To learn about us and our company values, please visit www.aurizon.com.au/careers
