Asset Deployment Specialist
- Permanent opportunity
- Rotating shift work, North Sydney location
- Leverage your Resource, Asset or Maintenance Scheduling background and support our haulage services!
About us
Pacific National (PN) is the largest private provider of diversified rail freight services in Australia. We haul a variety of freight including coal, intermodal containers, steel, and a range of bulk commodities and materials that keep the region’s economy, businesses and households running. We are a company built on solid foundations and we are incredibly proud of the essential role we continue to play supporting Australia’s supply chain. At Pacific National, we take great pride in delivering our best every day and have a relentless focus on customer service and place safety above all else.
We operate nationally with approximately 3,500 staff in over 90+ sites across Australia. We respect and care for the communities in which we operate and continue to evolve our community engagement and strengthen relationships through partnerships and investment. We are focused on reducing the carbon emissions of our business, while also enabling the reduction of carbon emissions in the broader supply chain to support the National targets.
About the Role
The Asset Planning Specialist has key accountability for the effective coordination of all rollingstock maintenance within the portfolio.
- Efficiently adjusting locomotive and wagons maintenance activities within the time horizon of 7 days for optimal business performance, consolidating maintenance tasks and utilisation of assets
- Switch from plan maintenance to plan recovery when disruptive events happen
- Reschedule maintenance activities to ensure compliance with maintenance standards
- Update FMS as required with necessary information
- Responsible for effective & efficient deployment of assets resources to meet the customer service plan
- Rolling asset maintenance
- Update systems as required with necessary information
- As a specialist, provide expertise for other Service Delivery team members as required on decisions impacting assets made in the live environment
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Previous experience in maintenance planning/scheduling with proven ability to understand the required sequence of events to meet business needs
- Experience in heavy industry/transport or other industry where heavy vehicles are deployed
- Relevant demonstrated experience in the planning/service delivery aspect of complex rail operations (desirable)
- Ability to understand technical discussions regarding assets
- Proven ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external customers
In addition:
- Flexibility to work a rotating 12 hour shift pattern
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively using multiple mediums (phone, email, text messages, etc)
- Intermediate level computer skills, with a background in transport or labour (rostering) management systems and/or reporting systems advantageous but not essential
- Ability to operate effectively in a team
- Confidence to review and assess available information and to make appropriate decisions
- An interest in pursuing a long career in Transport and Logistics is highly advantageous
The benefits
At Pacific National we value diversity, inclusion, and the contribution of each team member. Our values underpin our commitment to create an inclusive culture where everyone is accepted and valued for who they are, enabling everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.
When you join the Pacific National team, you’ll be encouraged to take ownership of your career and we’ll be there to support you with a range of exciting initiatives including:
- Industry leading programs focussed on your growth and career development.
- Paid parental leave up to 14 weeks, with superannuation - after only 6 months service
- Parental benefits for birth, surrogacy, adoption, foster care, and kinship care
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Flexible working arrangements (subject to business needs)
- A focus on your mental health and wellbeing through our PeerConnect program
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, administered by Benestar, offering confidential counselling services for employees and their eligible family members, paid for by us at no cost to you
- Access to Unmind, a digital platform that gives you access to tools, training and exercises that will support your mental wellbeing
- Discounted fitness and wellbeing benefits with membership to WhereFit, our wellbeing benefits partner
- Novated leasing and discounts on selected health insurance funds, travel, retail brands, vehicles and more
We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for women, and you can visit our Work180 page Pacific National | WORK180 Endorsed Employer to find out more including a list of all of our benefits and policies.
We are seeking applicants who share our values: Make it simple, Share More, Kindness, Gratitude, Curiosity, and Own it. These values help us achieve strong connections with everyone we work with and play an important part in motivating us all to do our best work.
Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?
If you need an adjustment in the recruitment process, please outline at the time of your application.
Closing date
Applications close 23rd April 2024.
Next steps
Are you ready to be part of our future?
To apply, please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the prompts.
To find out more about Pacific National, our benefits and opportunities we offer, visit our careers page: www.pacificnational.com.au/careers
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work, live and rail. We pay respect to Elders past, present and future and to the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.