Maintenance Planner & Purchasing Officer

Aliaxis exists to bring solutions to the world's water challenges and accelerate the transition to clean energy. We are a global leader in high-quality piping & fitting solutions for use in building, infrastructure, industrial and agricultural applications across the globe. Over 15,000 people work for us in more than 40 countries with 80 manufacturing sites.  

Vinidex

For over six decades, Vinidex has been leading the way – setting the industry benchmark for pipeline systems and solutions. Our legacy spans across building, infrastructure, agriculture, and civil sectors. 

We make life flow with groundbreaking, high-quality products, connecting everything from water, gas, and energy throughout Australia. With the Aliaxis group as our parent company, we are part of one of the world's largest global networks to bring solutions to the world's water challenges.  

We are proud of our initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint, continuing to deliver the best solutions for our customers with minimal impact on the environment and a positive impact on our community.  We are looking for passionate people that want to be part of our journey and embrace the behaviours that we stand for: 

• We Dare to challenge the status quo, to innovate and to learn fast 

• We Care for the environment, our customers and each other 

• We Deliver by taking accountability for our decisions and actions 
   

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Planner and Purchasing Officer, to join our supportive team at our Sunshine Vinidex manufacturing operation. ​

Ideally you will come from a similar role and enjoy working in a fast paced and innovative manufacturing environment, experience in managing the spare parts inventory and purchasing requirements for maintenance and production.

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, your day will also include scheduling maintenance activities including preventative maintenance, creating and closing out work orders, reviewing timeframes, root causes, patterns and frequency of maintenance events, to optimise performance and reliability of plant and equipment.

This is a full-time, site-based role located in Sunshine, Victoria. Candidates must be comfortable commuting to site daily as regular work-from-home arrangements are not available.

What will you do?

• Schedule planned maintenance activities/work orders, including preparing parts availability, SOP, JSEA & work permits and contractor management.

• Ensure all PM tasks are scheduled and completed for all plant equipment and maintenance requirements are communicated to the appropriate stakeholders.

• Continually refining the CMMS/MEX database, Work orders data entry, uploading service reports, RCA on breakdown and plan for prevention.

• Administer purchasing activities in accordance with Vinidex policies and procedures.

• Maintain re-order points and economic order quantities to ensure adequate stocks of consumable goods.

• Ensure correct allocation of all purchase orders and invoices to the appropriate departments and accounts

• Manage inwards goods to ensure deliveries are of appropriate quality, quantity and timing
   

About you 

This is a great role for a recent graduate with an Engineering degree (preferably mechanical) or Mechanical trade qualified working in a similar role within a Manufacturing, Plastic or FMCG environment. Additionally, to be successful you will have the following:

• Hands on and flexible to source parts, contractors and able to analyse maintenance activities, ensuring correct preventative maintenance activities are scheduled to improve reliability and output

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

• Proficient in using systems including CMMS (MEX or equivalent), ERP (SAP advantageous)

• Demonstrated experience in planning maintenance activities, creating workorders and ensuring shutdowns and preventative maintenance activities are set to best practice

• Experience raising purchase orders, invoice management and running spare parts inventory

• Exceptional time management and coordination skills, able to prioritise and be agile with a high level of attention to detail and root cause analysis.

• Team player with a positive outlook, have strong relationship building skills, results driven and enjoys trouble shooting to find the best solution.

• Understands equipment maintenance management (extrusion process advantageous).

• Be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident with full working rights.

Why join us? We care …

• You will enjoy working for a business that is conscious about what we do, how it operates and our impact on the environment.

• Industry leading paid parental leave - 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary carer and 4 weeks paid secondary carer.

• Free onsite parking.

• Employee Assistance Program access for you & your immediate family.

• We take it further with our Employee Recognition Programs and Service Awards, STI program and Annual Pay reviews to reward you for a job well done.

• Opportunity to join our mentoring programs.

• Diversity, equity, and inclusion is close to our heart as a global business, you will have the opportunity to join the DEI council.

• Career development opportunities at locally and globally.

• A safe work environment with a strong focus on “Go for Zero”
   

For more information, please reach out to Harjot Dhody +61 419902624