Maintenance Planner - South Hedland

WHO WE ARE

“Powering Economies and Communities”

TransAlta owns, operates, and develops a diverse fleet of electrical generation assets in Canada, the United States and Australia, providing municipalities, industries, and businesses with safe, low-cost, and reliable clean electricity.

For over 100 years, TransAlta has been a responsible operator and proud community-member where its employees work and live. We are committed to fostering a dynamic, productive, and safe work environment. Our employees contribute to a diverse, open, and transparent culture with clear accountabilities, strong leadership, and challenging opportunities for personal career growth.

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ABOUT THE ROLE

We are currently looking to a hire a Power Station Maintenance Planner to join our South Headland site-based team. The Power Station Maintenance Planner is a crucial position which plans and schedules all resources and materials to enable the successful operation of the power station. The role will be a local, residential position Monday through Friday based in South Hedland.

This is a safety sensitive position. The successful candidate will be required to complete pre-employment testing.

ACCOUNTABILITIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintenance planning

• Collaboration with key stakeholders of major maintenance activities
• Ensure long range and short-range planning of resource requirements to undertake necessary maintenance tasks
• Building and maintaining an optimised 12-month major maintenance activity schedule
• Scoping work and developing work orders for major work activities including a detailed execution list, resources, materials identified and Permit to work requests
• Developing work packs and facilitating the work pack review process
• Estimating costs and identifying opportunities to improve cost performance
• Support the change management process during the event
• Complete post event work including demobilisation, reconciliation of costs and updating asset history and CMMS
• Maintain the Certified Plant documentation and ongoing statutory inspections
• Manage performance against maintenance KPIs
• Manage and execute CAPEX and OPEX projects
• Manage expenditure and budget within annual targets

SAP Master Data

• Creation of and updates to PM Plans, Items, Flocs, Equipment, Task Lists, BOMs, PRTs and Measurement Points

Inventory Management

• Ensure Parts and Equipment are available for PM Work Orders
• Maintain the store inventory, reorder stores inventory
• Requisition for Stores reordering
• Perform Stocktakes of store inventory
• Receive orders into inventory

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in this role, we are looking for the following must-have qualifications and experience:

• Current Manual C Class driver’s license
• Experience with SAP PM Planning, Work Management and Master Mata
• Experience with SAP MM Purchasing, Material Masters & Cycle Counts

Nice to haves

The following qualifications and/or experience are desirable, but not essential:

• Trade certificate in the relevant Mechanical or Electrical field
• Experience with reliability and asset health tools e.g.: ARMS
• Forklift license HRWL
• Experience with GE LM 6000 gas turbine
• Steam system experience including steam turbines, boilers, and water treatment

TransAlta offers a competitive remuneration package including private health insurance and eligibility for an annual bonus. Successful candidates will be required to provide a valid Police Clearance (within the last six months) and undertake a pre-employment medical. As this is a site-based role, proof of vaccination and subsequent required boosters against COVID-19 will be required. 

Become part of our TransAlta team today! We look forward to reviewing your application. All applications will be reviewed in a timely manner to the best of our abilities. We appreciate your patience and understanding during the recruitment process.