Maintenance Planner
What the work is
Develops maintenance planning strategies for, and schedules, coordinates and monitors the maintenance of, plant equipment, infrastructure and machinery.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Prepares preventative maintenance plans and schedules, following the organisation's maintenance goals
- Coordinates planned downtimes to minimise interference with production or service schedules
- Adjusts schedules to include emergency work
- Collaborates with procurement staff to ensure availability of necessary maintenance materials and supplies
- Ensures compliance with existing maintenance procedures and regulations
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the maintenance planning office of a fictional food-packaging factory that runs day and night. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A planned shutdown finishes on time and production restarts without a hitch
- Your schedule heads off a breakdown before anyone knew it was coming
- The maintenance crew says the job pack you wrote had everything they needed
Hard days
- An unplanned breakdown tears up your carefully built schedule at seven in the morning
- Production wants the machine running, and maintenance wants it stopped
- Parts for a job do not arrive and the booked crew is standing by
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 313331, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.