Planning & Scheduling Team Lead

About the role

Key responsibilities

• Lead and oversee maintenance planning activities, ensuring compliance with refinery standards, policies, and procedures.
• Drive planning consistency through quality assurance, standard work practices, and effective schedule management.
• Coach supervisors in developing maintenance scopes, job plans, schedules, and work management processes within SAP.
• Ensure master schedules, forecasts, and maintenance plans are maintained and accessible across operational areas.
• Act as the CMMS subject matter expert, maintaining system integrity and delivering advanced user training in partnership with system vendors.

Qualifications & Experience

• Strong commitment to process and personal safety, fostering a positive safety culture.
• Demonstrated extensive maintenance planning and scheduling experience within a CMMS environment in a major industrial or manufacturing setting.
• Extensive maintenance and reliability expertise, supported by a technical or trade-based background.
• Proven experience leading planning teams, coordinating maintenance activities, and driving schedule performance.
• Advanced knowledge of CMMS/EAM systems (SAP preferred), master data management, and system integrity.
• Strong understanding of maintenance strategies, asset management principles, and planning best practices.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, coaching, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work collaboratively across functions, and deliver results in a dynamic operational environment.

Our Benefits

• Our total remuneration is competitive. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars!
• Access to Ampol's Benefits & Recognition platform: providing you access to retail discounts and cashbacks at over 500+ retailers in Australia that assist with everyday living expenses.
• We value recognition. We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
• Paid Parental Leave - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid)
• BabyCare Package - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work.
• Need some wheels? Novated Lease options are available.
• Invest in your future with the Employee Share Scheme
• Leave Options: We offer wellbeing leave and leave purchasing.
• Care for your Community. Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.
• Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today. Applications closes on the 09 October 2026
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