Maintenance Planner

Loram is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Maintenance Planner to join our team. This role is critical in supporting the safe, efficient, and effective execution of maintenance activities across our operations.

As a Maintenance Planner, you will work closely with technical teams, operations, and contractors to ensure that maintenance work is well-planned, resourced, and executed in line with our asset management and reliability goals.

Work structure: Site travel when required to Karratha - 5:2

Key Responsibilities

Work Order Management

• Review maintenance requests for clarity and validity.
• Create actionable work orders with accurate job plans, labor, parts, and documentation.
• Update job plans based on best practices, safety requirements, and technical feedback.
  
  

Weekly & Shutdown Planning

• Develop weekly maintenance schedules aligned with operational priorities and resource availability.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to confirm downtime windows and schedule alignment.
• Support shutdown planning by bundling tasks, managing risk, and staging pre-work.
  
  

Parts & Resource Coordination

• Ensure material and resource availability through timely ordering and coordination.
• Maintain safety stock levels and proactively manage long-lead items.
• Work with supply chain teams to improve forecasting and reduce delays.
  
  

Data & Compliance Oversight

• Monitor work order status, including overdue and incomplete jobs.
• Ensure accurate close-out data, including labor hours and findings.
• Audit compliance with preventive and corrective maintenance plans.
  
  

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a liaison between maintenance, operations, engineering, and performance teams.
• Lead or contribute to planning meetings with updates on schedules, backlogs, and issues.
• Provide clear reporting on KPIs, compliance, and planning performance.
  
  

Continuous Improvement

• Analyse maintenance data to identify trends and recurring issues.
• Recommend and implement improvements to task frequencies, plans, and execution.
• Support reliability initiatives by linking work history with root cause analysis.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

Loram’s Maintenance Planners also play a key role in supporting broader technical and operational activities, including:

• Providing technical guidance to site teams on job execution and fault diagnosis.
• Coordinating breakdown responses and engaging engineering support as needed.
• Assisting with budgeting and forecasting for maintenance tasks and parts usage.
• Managing logistics and site setup for major maintenance events.
• Supporting parts management through identification, tracking, and reservations.
• Logging and monitoring Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) through to completion.
• Planning and scheduling the execution of approved ECRs within the maintenance program.
  
  

About You

• Strong background in maintenance planning or coordination in an industrial, rail, or heavy equipment environment.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficient in interpreting technical documentation and translating it into actionable plans.
• A continuous improvement mindset and ability to analyse data for trends and insights.
• Familiarity with CMMS systems (experience with specific platforms a plus, but not required).
  
  

Applying

This is a great opportunity to join our team and to apply please provide a cover letter and detailed resume. A medical, along with other pre-employment checks, are required including site inductions.