Maintenance Planners develop maintenance planning strategies, and schedule, coordinate and monitor the maintenance of all plant equipment.
Occupation description
Maintenance Planners develop maintenance planning strategies, and schedule, coordinate and monitor the maintenance of all plant equipment.
Occupations considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- Maintenance Scheduler
- Shutdown Coordinator
- Shutdown Planner
Occupations not considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- ICT Support Technicians
- Aircraft Maintenance Engineers
- Ship’s Engineer
- Building and Plumbing Labourers
These occupations are classified elsewhere in ANZSCO.
Maintenance Planner is a VETASSESS Group C occupation
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Diploma or higher.
Applicants must also have at least one year of highly relevant, post-qualification employment, at an appropriate skill level completed in the last five years.
* Additional qualifications in a highly relevant field of study include those comparable to the following levels:
- AQF Diploma
- AQF Advanced Diploma
- AQF Associate Degree or
- AQF Graduate Diploma
** Highly relevant paid employment duration (20 hours or more per week)
1-3
minimum years of employment highly relevant to the nominated occupation, completed at an appropriate skill level in the five years before the date of application for a Skills Assessment.
4
minimum 4 years of relevant employment required – Three years of relevant employment (can be outside the last 5-year period) in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years before applying.
A positive assessment of both qualifications and employment is required for a positive Skills Assessment Outcome.
Qualification and Employment Criteria
Employment
Highly relevant tasks include:
- Identifying reliability issues and working to implement solutions;
- Assisting with the development and maintenance of engineering standards;
- Maintaining a safe system of work in the workplace by complying fully with standards and policies and all relevant legislation requirements;
- Writing job plans, workflow processes and undertaking reviews and audits;
- Utilising the CMMS system for running reports, records management, tracking and general maintenance;
- Developing and implementing effective preventative maintenance and reliability systems to maximise plant efficiencies;
- Planning maintenance activities, such as preventative maintenance, schedules and maintenance shutdowns;
- Utilising and implementing continuous improvement processes with the aim of reducing plant downtime and increasing plant availability through effective processes;
- Spare parts procurement and inventory management;
- Ensuring accurate monitoring of project costs, work and scheduling;
- Providing leadership in the site maintenance planning processing.
Employment information
Maintenance Planners ensure that the machinery used in manufacturing, refining and processing plants is in the best possible working order by undertaking a range of maintenance inspections and scheduling maintenance processes.
Roles with a primary focus on diagnosing faults and performing repairing and operational maintenance of machines would not be considered relevant to the occupation of Maintenance Planner.
Supporting material for assessment
Applicants nominating this occupation are required to provide evidence in line with VETASSESS documentation requirements.
Applicants may also provide details of any relevant training or professional development courses undertaken, and licences/registrations held that relate to performing the role, if applicable. These may be detailed in the Curriculum Vitae/Resume provided.
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