RFT250116 - Provision of Maintenance Planner for Water Utilities
Central Highlands Regional Council (CHRC) has 4 operational departments: people, safety and legal, commercial and corporate services, communities and infrastructure and utilities. Within the infrastructure and utilities department, infrastructure and water utilities operate.
The water utilities team is responsible for the water and wastewater network and treatment of 15 water treatment plants, 426 km of water mains and 7 wastewater treatment plants.
The water utilities team is seeking provision to engage a suitably experienced person to undertake an acting (secondment) role; maintenance planner. Further details, including the key responsibilities, abilities, skills and knowledge, qualifications and working conditions and safety requirements required are detailed in the below sections.
Further detail, including the scope of work required, is detailed in the below sections.
PARTICULARS OF GOODS AND SERVICES
Introduction
Reporting to the water operations manager, the maintenance planner will undertake activities required to develop and implement the planned maintenance program. This includes:
• Development and optimization of maintenance plans and schedules for water and wastewater treatment and networks asset classes based on demand, workload and priorities to minimize downtime and ensure efficient operations.
• Development of maintenance plans and schedules for each asset classes, including job plan (description and frequency of works to be carried out).
• Ensure maintenance plans and schedules are reviewed and signed off by key stakeholders.
• Configure OneCouncil system with the maintenance plans and schedules.
• Test maintenance work orders in the field and amend as required.
The applicant is anticipated to fully embed themselves within the CHRC water utilities team for the duration of the Contract.
The duration of the engagement is 12 months from the project award. The applicant is required to be available 40 hours / week and be based in Emerald every second week.
The maintenance planner has one direct report and plays a key role within the wider operations and capital delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities for the role include:
• Stakeholder engagement: Effective communication skills to liaise with both internal and external stakeholders in developing and implementing the planned maintenance program.
• Planned maintenance: Develop rolling maintenance plans and schedules aligned to asset criticality, including job plans to ensure legislative requirements are met and asset life cycle is optimised. Provide technical support to the maintenance scheduling officer and maintenance teams in the delivery of the planned maintenance program.
• Responsive maintenance: Review the responsive maintenance work orders to identify any planned maintenance opportunities to assist with cost reduction in responsive maintenance and effectiveness of planned maintenance program.
• System management: Load and amend the job plans and maintenance schedules in OneCouncil maintenance management module and save any documentation in CHRC’s electronic records management system.
• Asset management: Review and amend asset class plans as part of the implementation of the planned maintenance program and liaise with the corporate asset management team with respect to changes to the asset management plan or adding missing infrastructure into the OneCouncil system as required.
• Contract management and procurement: Support the maintenance scheduling officer in development of technical specifications, procurement and engagement of planned maintenance contractors.
• Reporting: Support the maintenance scheduling officer to develop a performance dashboard for monitoring, reporting and management of the planned maintenance program development and implementation (including schedule adherence and backlog) to allow for monthly reporting and quarterly forecasting.
• Budgeting: Prepare the annual budget for the planned maintenance program.
• Safety and training. Work according to safe work procedures and undertake necessary training to ensure regulatory compliance is met and zero harm is achieved.
• Procedures: Develop or review standard operating procedures for the development and implementation of planned maintenance.
Additionally, this role may be required to conduct other duties directed by the water utilities operations manager.
Abilities, skills and knowledge
Mandatory:
• Demonstrated experience in the development of maintenance plans and schedules, preferably for water and wastewater infrastructure.
• Ability to understand legislative compliance or standards and CHRC’s utility service level obligations with respect to customer, drinking water quality, environment, and safety.
• Demonstrated experience in the use of a maintenance management system (i.e., SAP, Maximo, Technology One OneCouncil etc.)
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite and experience creating and using spreadsheets.
Desirable:
• Experience in local government.
Qualifications
Mandatory:
• Minimum of Queensland C class provisional manual drivers’ licence.
• General Construction Induction Card.
Desirable:
• Degree or trade qualified in an engineering discipline (i.e. B.Eng. Mech, B.Eng Elec, B.Eng. Civil etc)
Working Conditions and Safety Requirements
• Work outdoors and in areas where environmental factors may include sun, rain, wind, effluent waste, chemicals including acids and in or around bodies of water.
• Exposure to biological hazards (raw water, wastewater aerosols and biosolids). Relevant immunisations required include Tetanus, Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B.
• Adherence to CHRC's Health and Safety standards and procedures
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS OF THE CONTRACT
Key Personnel and Relevant Experience
Please refer to “3 1 - S04 Relevant Experience.docx” returnable. Consultant to attach the document.
The Consultant is to provide a minimum of 3 project examples within the “3 1 - S04 Relevant Experience.docx” returnable. The Consultant is to attach a CV. CV’s are to be maximum 3 pages in length.