Maintenance Planner Scheduler

Job Description

Maintenance Planner Scheduler

• An impactful Maintenance Planner role critical for our site’s success

• Collaborative Maintenance team with strong development potential

• Location: King St, Hastings, New Zealand

Grow Your Engineering & Maintenance Career with Heinz Watties!

Are you looking to grow your career in Maintenance Planning? This is an impactful role critical where you will be driving maintenance plans and budget oversight. Do you want to join a dynamic team with a proven track record of internal growth and career advancement opportunities? We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a Maintenance Planner to join our Maintenance team based out of our King St, New Zealand site!

The Company

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. Our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

Key position responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Create and deliver overhaul work plans, coordinating with engineering planning/scheduling to meet outage windows and complete overhauls.

• Develop, implement, and monitor preventive maintenance programs; arrange and oversee corrective maintenance as required.

• Lead asset performance data and KPI collection/analysis to identify issues and drive reliability and improvement plans.

• Implement and embed management system requirements within Engineering activities and ways of working.

• Deliver continuous improvement initiatives, projects, and line-efficiency improvements in partnership with operations.

• Conduct breakdown/downtime analysis and implement corrective actions to reduce repeat failures and improve availability.

• Own maintenance budget accountability, including estimates, extensions, and allocation of time and resources with maintenance and production teams.

• Forecast, manage, and govern Work Order Management systems, annual maintenance planning/execution, and stakeholder/meeting engagement.

About you:

• Strong communication skills, able to engage effectively with production, engineering, and management teams.

• Proven ability to plan and prioritise work, managing competing demands to meet deadlines.

• Capable of working to budget commitments and supporting cost control.

• Analytical skills to interpret maintenance/asset data, prepare clear reports, and support preventive maintenance program development.

• Confident computer skills and general digital literacy.

• Strong Microsoft Excel capability (e.g., data handling, reporting, tracking).

• CMMS experience (Mainpac preferred), including work order and maintenance planning processes.

• Relevant trade qualification(s) and hands-on maintenance experience, with full New Zealand working rights.

Benefits of working with us

• Pay for Performance – industry leading variable compensation offerings tied to company and individual performance on top of a competitive base salary package

• Parental Leave – paid time off for both primary AND secondary caregivers

• Leave Options – Purchased leave, volunteer leave and LiveWell leave programs to give you even more flexibility to plan your life and spend time on causes that matter

• Great Place to Work certification in Australia and New Zealand

• In House Training Programs

• Corporate Discount Programs 

Ready to make an Impact?

If you're passionate about Maintenance Planning, eager to learn, and enjoy working in a team environment, please submit your application. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close our job advertisements early.

Location(s)

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.