Scheduler / Wagon Coordinator

About the role:

Reporting to the Maintenance Superintendent, you will develop, plan and schedule maintenance activities across Aurizon's Bulk South West division to drive optimal fleet performance and reliability. This is an office-based role at our Forrestfield maintenance facility, providing a dedicated coordination point for Forrestfield's growing Containerised Freight (CF) wagon fleet and capital works, keeping a complex, multi-input workload moving to plan.

• Ensuring plans owned by division are scheduled and acquitted with 100% compliance to due intervals as specified in the approved system.
• Participating in daily communication across functions and with relevant stakeholders to ensure the existence of work plans.
• Liaising with third parties and booking contractors to ensure infield ad-hoc maintenance services performed to high standard.
• Working with relevant stakeholders to agree with capacity and operational timeframes and commitments.
• Daily working with relevant stakeholders to optimise the services interface to minimise dwell time around the acquittal of works.
• Assisting relevant stakeholders to ensure governing rules, processes and systems are delivered and support scheduled works.
• In conjunction with relevant schedulers working within a specific field, drive standardisation of scheduling processes across corridors and facilities.
• Driving year on year improvements through the optimised scheduling and execution of plans
• Work with leaders and planners to drive year on year improvements in productivity and cost reduction.

About you:

• National C Class Driver's License (Mandatory)
• Previous experience in heavy industry maintenance
• Sound IT skills, particularly in Maintenance Systems, Excel, and SAP
• Ability to lead and influence others to drive outcomes.
• Planning experience in scheduling and project management
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to optimise business processes.
• High level of interpersonal skills to communicate cross functionally.

What we offer you:

At Aurizon, we support the development and growth of our employees. With a national portfolio of operations, we offer long-term and exciting career opportunities.

Some of our benefits include:

• Development and growth opportunities.
• Access to mentoring and development programs.
• Discounts on selected health insurance funds, personal travel, gyms, vehicles and retail brands.
• Parental leave program and super booster.

About Aurizon.

Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator and a top 100 ASX company. Each year, we deliver more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities right across the country. Aurizon is crucial to the Australian economy, connecting miners, primary producers and industry with international and domestic markets.

Look to Aurizon for a diverse and collaborative culture.

At Aurizon, we are proud of our diverse, collaborative, creative and high-performance culture. We celebrate the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic, caring, and inclusive work environment.

To learn about us and our company values, please visit www.aurizon.com.au/careers