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.
King Street
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes
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. We’re a globally trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods for over 150 years. While Kraft Heinz is co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh, 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.
We spark joy around mealtime with our iconic brands, including Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Heinz, Philadelphia, Lunchables, Velveeta, Maxwell House, Capri Sun, Ore-Ida, Kool-Aid, Jell-O, Primal Kitchen, and Classico, among others.
No matter the brand, we’re united under one vision: To sustainably grow by delighting more consumers globally. Bringing this vision to life is our team of 37,000+ food lovers, creative thinkers, and high performers worldwide. Together, we help provide meals to those in need through our global partnership with Rise Against Hunger. We also stand committed to responsible, sustainable practices that extend to every facet of our business, our consumers, and our communities. Every day, we’re transforming the food industry with bold thinking and unprecedented results. If you share our passion – and are ready to create the future, build a legacy, and lead as a global citizen – there’s only one thing to do: join our table and let’s make life delicious!
