Area planner (part-time)

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low carbon technologies.

You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the Role:

We are currently looking for an Area Planner, at our Pinjarra Refinery, this position is a fixed term until Dec 2025, part-time (2 days per week)

The Area Planner’s primary responsibility is to eliminate all waste from major vessel overhauls through planning and scheduling of all service activities.

The Area Planner is accountable for driving continuous improvement of maintenance activities, through supporting the Field Planners.

One of the key drivers of this role is to ensure the Tradespersons’ tool time is maximised.

The Area Planner is responsible for coordinating all the planning work, logistic allocation, consulting details on technical drawings and engineering charts needed for the optimisation of all resources utilised (human, material and financial).

This role is also responsible to track, control and generate management reports for the costs incurred by the interfaces created from external requests.

Core Activities:


* Is responsibility for adherence to the total planning process in the Operations Centre through rules in use and standardised work.


* Maximises equipment availability by ensuring that appropriate operating and maintenance strategies are agreed between key personnel in the area and are documented and communicated.


* Plans, schedules, and aligns major equipment and process outages to maximise business value and minimise losses.


* Responsible for creating the Operating Centre maintenance metrics as well as addressing the improvement opportunities for the achievement of the operational plan.


* Assists the Field Planner to competently perform in their role by providing specific information and resources as necessary.


* Applies their knowledge to perform critical analyses on process improvements.

These decisions have impact on the departmental contribution to the business.


* Contributes to the achievement of area business objectives by producing long term (monthly, quarterly and yearly) schedules of known equipment activities.

What’s on offer:


* Career development opportunities to pursue your passion


* Monthly Leisure Day


* Benefits allowance


* Performance related bonus (variable)


* Paid annual volunteer hours


* Social and diversity focused engagement opportunities

What you can bring to the role:


* Strong planning experience.


* Proficiency in a wide range of PC software and in using MS project,


* Strong communication skills and be able to lead a team of planners,


* High att...