ANSTO is seeking an Engineering Workshop Planning Lead to play a pivotal role in coordinating and leading production and project planning activities within our Engineering Support Workshop. This role combines people leadership, technical oversight, and strong stakeholder engagement in a highly regulated, safety‑critical environment.
You will lead a team of specialised production planners and work closely with engineers, project managers, quality, finance, and customers to ensure work is planned and delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard. This is a role where expertise, collaboration, and judgement are highly valued, and where your work will have a clear and meaningful impact.
You are a confident and thoughtful trade, engineering or manufacturing professional who enjoys bringing people, systems, and priorities together. You will bring:
Teamwork builds the solution; customer focus defines its success - Bianca Shepherd, Engineering Support Workshop Manager
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ANSTO leverages great science to deliver big outcomes. We partner with key stakeholders and apply new technologies to provide real-world benefits. Our work improves human health, saves lives, builds our industries and protects the environment. ANSTO is the home of Australia's most significant landmark and national infrastructure for research. Thousands of scientists from industry and academia benefit from gaining access to state-of-the-art instruments every year.
ANSTO offers training and development, performance-based salary increases and an extensive range of leave provisions to help employees balance work and personal commitments.
If you want to join a world class organisation that's making a difference in the lives of Australians, apply now!
For further technical information relating to this position please refer to the or contact Bianca Shepherd on (02) 9717 3485. For all other queries please contact Talent Acquisition on +61 (02) 9717 3740.
To be eligible for appointment, applicants will require a security and pre-employment medical assessment.
Application closing date: 17th June 2026 at 11:59pm
All applicants must be Australian citizens.
In order to solve great challenges, we need great minds and great teams. At ANSTO, we understand that diverse teams produce better outcomes and we value the merit that a diverse perspective can bring to our team. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, primary carers, those with a disability, and women in STEM. ANSTO is a charter member of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) initiative and is proudly taking action to create a gender-inclusive workforce.
ANSTO is one of Australia’s largest public research organisations and custodian of much of our country’s important science infrastructure, including the OPAL nuclear research reactor, the Australian Synchrotron, accelerators, cyclotrons and neutron beam instruments.
More than 1000 scientists, engineers and experts work at ANSTO to answer the significant environmental, medical and industrial questions using nuclear techniques.
ANSTO’s international collaborations, including partnerships with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), ensure Australian scientists are connected to a global network of experts and research projects.
As part of enabling a strong national collaborative network, ANSTO is connected with all Australian and New Zealand universities through the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE), providing researchers access to Australia’s nuclear science, technology and engineering expertise and landmark infrastructure.
On average, ANSTO accommodates over 1800 visiting researchers from other Australian and international research organisations each year.
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