Long Term Planner
Our Opportunity
Work Location: Perth - Fortescue Centre
Roster: Part-time, 2.5 days per week
The Energy Operations Long-Term Maintenance Planner is responsible for long-term planning, maintaining master data, aligning minor and major shutdown schedules with business outages, and providing 2-year budgets and quarterly forecasts.
This position reports directly to the Lead Planner and collaborates closely with the planning team and site-based maintenance teams.
The Energy Operations team manages multiple generation and transmission network assets across the WA Pilbara operations. Solomon Power Station has a total output of 290MW which consists of, 2 x LM6000 turbines, 4 x Solar Titan turbines, and 14 x Bergen engines, all running on gas. At Chichester’s Power Station, there are 23 diesel gensets at Cloudbreak and 27 diesel genset at Christmas Creek, while near Iron Bridge, 118MW of solar panels are installed, with more assets expected to come online.
Key Responsibilities
- Create task lists, maintenance items, and plans.
- Maintain master data changes or new requests.
- Work collaboratively with the team and support day-to-day changes.
- Implement mass changes to master data as required.
- Generate regular SAP reports and analyse data.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records.
- Coordinate and develop yearly and quarterly operations maintenance budgets for energy operations.
- Report quarterly forecasts against budget and actual expenditure.
- Support maintenance strategy Improvements.
- Work with the Lead Planner and Strategic Planning to develop efficient dispatch plans and accurate run-hour estimates for quarterly and annual planning.
- Map minor and major outages for all of Energy Operations.
Qualifications and Experience
- Knowledge and experience with maintenance management systems, e.g., SAP.
- Proven commitment to safety and zero harm.
- Ability to work with others to achieve objectives; team oriented.
- Strong verbal, written, and computer skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Desirable:
- Mechanical or Electrical trade qualification.
- Experience in power stations.
- Strong understanding of both production and maintenance strategies for large-scale power stations.
- Experience in a planning role (planning weekly maintenance/shutdowns).
- Good planning and organizational skills.
Personal Attributes:
- Team player.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to interact at all levels.
- Adaptable to change.
- Ability to prioritize and work well under pressure.
- Self-driven and motivated.
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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