Maintenance Planner & Scheduler - Energy Operations

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Chichesters - Cloudbreak and Christmas Creek.  Fortescue’s Chichester hub is located on the traditional lands of the Palyku and Nyiyaparli peoples.

Roster: Monday–Friday transitioning to 8/6

The Energy Operations Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing high-quality maintenance work plans that enable safe, efficient and effective execution of maintenance activities across generation and transmission assets.

Reporting to Senior Planner & Scheduler (Energy Operations), this role works closely with execution teams to ensure work scopes are accurate, practical and fully prepared to minimise rework, delays and risk.

Key Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

• Develop detailed and executable maintenance work plans and job packs
• Engage with supervisors and trades to validate scope accuracy and practicality
• Ensure labour, materials, tooling and contractor requirements are clearly identified
• Support execution teams during work delivery to resolve scope or planning issues
• Maintain high-quality work management data within SAP

Performance Expectations

• Work orders are fully scoped and ready prior to scheduling
• Minimal rework due to incomplete planning
• Positive feedback from execution teams regarding plan quality
• Accurate and complete SAP data
• Continuous improvement in planning quality and efficiency

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Experience in maintenance planning within power generation or heavy industry
• Strong SAP planning capability
• Understanding of asset reliability and maintenance strategies
• Ability to collaborate effectively with execution teams
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
• Commitment to safety and compliance

Desirable

• Electrical or Mechanical trade qualification
• Experience in gas-fired power station operations

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.