Maintenance Planner

Location: Ōtāhuhu, Auckland

Function: Supply Chain

Type of Contract: Full time Permanent

As Maintenance Planner, you will be a key member of the Waitemata Brewery Team, responsible for ensuring the safe, timely, high-quality, and cost-effective planning and execution of all maintenance activities to support continuous improvement and reliable production. You will lead the optimisation of the Planned Maintenance (PM) programme by applying TPM methodology, supporting line performance targets, and maintaining HEINEKEN’s Asset Care (HACs) standards. Your responsibilities include planning and scheduling work orders, managing labour and materials, aligning with key stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with safety, legal, quality, and budgetary requirements. You will drive weekly, monthly, and annual maintenance routines, lead tagging and de-tagging processes, coach maintenance technicians, support root cause analysis and improvement initiatives, and ensure accurate data reporting to maximise maintenance efficiency and reliability.

Key Accountabilities:

• Plan, prepare, and schedule safe, timely, high-quality, and cost-effective maintenance in alignment with HEINEKEN and legal standards, ensuring On-Time In-Full (OTIF) execution of safety, compliance, and quality-related tasks.
• Manage the full lifecycle of planned maintenance activities, including work order scoping, task instruction, resource allocation, materials/tools coordination, and alignment with production schedules.
• Continuously improve the Planned Maintenance (PM) Programme using TPM methodology and feedback loops (PDCA), optimising schedule coverage, conformance to schedule (CTS), and resource utilisation.
• Lead and support TPM initiatives and Asset Care standards (HACs), including driving performance improvement plans, coaching Maintenance Technicians, and embedding systematic maintenance practices.
• Coordinate short-, medium-, and long-term maintenance plans (e.g., weekly PMs, annual overhauls, and 3YP), ensuring integration with production demands and budget compliance for parts, labour, and inventory.
• Act as the gatekeeper for maintenance work requests, prioritising and scheduling based on validated criteria, and ensuring proper segregation between planned and unplanned work.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g., PMTL, Maintenance TL, Inventory Specialist) to align on maintenance activities, material staging, and accurate CMMS data reporting, while also acting as back-up PMTL and Inventory Specialist when required.

Your background and experience:

• Minimum of secondary education, with either a NZCE/Advanced Trade Certificate (Level 4) in Mechanical or Electrical, or preferably a Bachelor’s degree (Level 7).
• 2–3 years’ experience in maintenance or operations, ideally within the Brewing or FMCG industry, with at least 2 years in maintenance planning/scheduling and/or spare parts coordination.
• Hands-on experience with CMMS and a solid understanding of maintenance, engineering, supply chain, and inventory management processes.
• Familiarity with continuous improvement methodologies such as TPM, Lean, or Six Sigma, ideally within FMCG maintenance or operations.
• Strong planning and coordination skills, including supplier management and optimising cross-functional workflows across Operations, Procurement, and Maintenance.

If you're ready to take your maintenance planning career to the next level with a global brand and a legendary brewery – we’d love to hear from you.

Please note: We are not accepting candidates from recruitment agencies for this role.

When you join DB Breweries, you join the global HEINEKEN whanau, where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, contribute their ideas, learn, and grow as part of one of the largest beer and cider brewing companies in the world spanning 70 countries. 

We believe diverse views make great brews, and the vibe in our team is very much reflected in our four values: PASSION for consumers and customers, CARE for people and planet, ENJOYMENT of life, and COURAGE to dream and pioneer.  We offer a great range of employee benefits and positive culture which includes:

• Free health, life and income protection insurances.
• 5% employer contribution to your KiwiSaver.
• Free monthly allowance of beer, RTDs, cider or zero alcohol beverages.
• 50% employee discount at Star Hospitality venues.
• ‘Enjoyment of Life' leave (an extra day each year to do something you enjoy).
• A range of other benefits including generous parental leave provisions, free confidential counselling support, digital wills, feminine hygiene products, retail discounts and more.
• Free learning and wellbeing tools and leadership development programmes.
• As a member of Mind The Gap, we’re committed to addressing gender pay gaps and we’ve also supported the Pacific Pay Gap Inquiry.
• Flexible work arrangements for roles that can be performed remotely including work-from-home up to two days each week.
• Free parking.