Maintenance Planner & Scheduler
Asahi Beverages
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Business Management / Project / Planning, Manufacturing / Production
We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Planner & Scheduler to join our iconic Yatala Manufacturing site. In this hands-on planning role, you’ll play a key part in driving plant reliability and performance through effective asset management, maintenance planning, and shutdown coordination.
Working closely with trades, engineers, and contractors, you’ll ensure maintenance activities are well planned, efficiently executed, and continuously improved. You’ll also support small maintenance projects, manage work requests through SAP PM, and use data and insights to strengthen our asset care strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and schedule preventative and corrective maintenance activities
- Ensure parts availability, SOPs, contractors and permits (e.g. hot work, confined space) are in place
- Plan and coordinate shutdowns and small maintenance projects, tracking progress and outcomes
- Manage incoming work requests and maintenance tags through SAP PM / CMMS
- Work with trades and specialists to review planned work and define future scopes and strategies
- Inspect plant and equipment with trades and agree on repair solutions
- Partner with the Engineering team to manage budgets, review reports, and provide up-to-date cost estimates
- Capture, input and analyse asset data to produce asset care and reliability reports
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to lift maintenance, reliability and planning standards
To be successful in this role, you’ll bring:
- Trade or engineering qualifications beneficial
- Experience in a Maintenance Planner or similar role, ideally within a manufacturing or FMCG environment
- Experience using a CMMS, ideally SAP PM
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships with trades, engineers and stakeholders
- A proactive, organised approach with strong attention to detail
- An improvement-focused mindset and a willingness to challenge and improve maintenance processes
At Asahi Beverages, we're passionate about crafting more than just drinks - we craft moments of connection, celebration, and shared enjoyment. We bring together a diverse portfolio of iconic beverage brands, a commitment to quality, and a drive to constantly innovate. Headquartered in Melbourne and with facilities right across Australia and New Zealand, you’ll find Asahi is a place where talent is nurtured, and ambition is rewarded. If you’re ready to toast your future, we’re ready to meet you.
About the company
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Asahi Beverages is one of the leading beverage companies in Australia and New Zealand, producing an extensive range of alcohol and non-alcohol beverages.
Our non-alcohol portfolio extends across soft drinks, mixers, mineral water, water, juice, tea, energy and sports drinks, with iconic and well-loved brands such as Schweppes, Cool Ridge and Pepsi.
Our alcohol portfolio includes both local craft and international beers such as Asahi Super Dry and Peroni, as well as cider, ready-to-drink and spirits brands.
Asahi Beverages formed in 2014 through the integration of the Schweppes Australia and Asahi Premium Beverages businesses in Australia and Independent Liquor in New Zealand. Our Group also includes The Better Drinks Co, a NZ based juice and organic soft drink business and craft brewer, Mountain Goat.
We work in a category with rapidly changing consumer wants and needs, which fuels our entrepreneurial spirit and our thirst for category-growing innovation. Our company has grown enormously over the past decade, and as we continue to evolve, we’re looking for people who thrive on collaborating, connection and building high performing teams and who are agile, adventurous and always willing to jump in and give it their all.
It’s an exciting time to join our company. We believe that with us, you’ll get the experiences you need to develop to the next stage of your career as together we build the Asahi Beverages and the beverages category of the future.
Keen to explore our current vacant positions? Visit our Careers Page:
https://www.asahi.com.au/careers/careers