Planner & Scheduler - HME Shutdown Execution

Our Opportunity

Location: Eliwana, located on the traditional lands of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama people

Roster: 4/3 FIFO from Perth (tue to fri)

The Planner & Scheduler – HME Shutdown Execution is responsible for developing fully resourced, execution-ready shutdown plans for heavy mobile mining equipment, including excavators, haul trucks and ancillary equipment.Working closely with Mobile Maintenance Supervisors, execution teams, Reliability Engineers and Shutdown Leads, you’ll coordinate work scopes, schedules, labour, materials, tooling, equipment, contractors and access requirements. Your planning will help ensure shutdown work is delivered safely and efficiently, minimise equipment downtime and support fleet availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain shutdown scopes and schedules for heavy mobile equipment, including excavators, haul trucks and ancillary equipment.
• Work with Maintenance Supervisors, planners, Reliability Engineers and subject matter experts to identify and confirm shutdown work.
• Prepare detailed, execution-ready work packs, including job steps, labour and duration estimates, parts, tooling, equipment and contractor requirements.
• Sequence and schedule shutdown activities around equipment availability, operational requirements, resource constraints and work dependencies.
• Coordinate with Operations, Supply and contractors to confirm access, resources, materials and other readiness requirements.
• Monitor shutdown readiness, identify gaps and follow up on outstanding actions before work is released for execution.
• Ensure planned work is appropriately risk-assessed and meets required safety, governance and operational standards.
• Support execution teams with schedule updates and help resolve constraints as they arise.
• Review completed shutdowns, capture lessons learned and identify improvements to planning, scheduling and fleet availability.
• Maintain accurate work orders, schedules and shutdown information in SAP or other relevant maintenance systems.

Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrated experience in maintenance planning or scheduling in mining or a similar heavy industry environment.
• Experience planning shutdowns or major maintenance activities for heavy mobile equipment; experience with excavators or haul trucks is highly regarded.
• Understanding of work management processes, maintenance scopes, work packs and resource planning.Australian-recognised Mechanical or Electrical trade qualification; a mobile plant or heavy diesel background is highly regarded
• Engineering qualification is desirable.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP or a similar CMMS, and proficiency in Microsoft Office and MS Project.Strong organisation, coordination and communication skills, with the ability to manage changing priorities.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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