# Mechanical Planner

**Company**: Shell
**Location**: Curtis Island
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance

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## Description

Mechanical Planners plan and prepare mechanical and facilities maintenance work and operations support across Shell QGC. The role supports safe and reliable operation of the LNG asset by developing high-quality plans and work packs, identifying labour, materials, and tooling requirements, and ensuring work is planned, prepared, and ready for safe and efficient execution.

**Key Accountabilities**

- Integrate HSSE requirements, company standards, and approved ways of working into work planning activities.

- Ensure task lists and work packs contain the information required to support safe and compliant work execution.

- Support continuous improvement of planning practices through incorporation of HSSE learnings, audits, and incident findings.

- Identify opportunities to group, bundle, and optimise work to improve execution efficiency and maximise asset availability.

- Prepare assigned work in accordance with approved procedures, maintenance strategies, and planning standards.

- Define labour, material, tooling, service, and resource requirements.

- Develop work plans, task lists, and work packs that support safe and efficient field execution.

- Coordinate the procurement and availability of materials, services, and supporting resources.

- Monitor work readiness and address planning-related constraints.

- Support the preparation of work deferrals where delays to critical work cannot be mitigated.

- Monitor planning quality and performance metrics.

- Maintain and improve planning data, bills of material, work plans, and task lists within the CMMS.

- Support optimisation of work plans, task lists, and planning standards.

- Identify and implement opportunities to improve planning efficiency, work readiness, and data quality.

- Support assurance reviews, audit activities, and business improvement initiatives.

- Role model inclusive behaviours and contribute to a respectful team culture.

- Prepare time and cost estimates to support budgeting and forecasting activities.

- Capture planning and execution feedback and incorporate approved improvements into planning data, work packs, and planning processes.

- Work collaboratively with Operations, E&I, Engineering, Scheduling, Contractors, and OEM representatives.

- Coach, mentor, and support apprentices, trainees, and developing planners.

- Maintain competencies as per role requirements.

- Role model inclusive behaviours and contribute to a respectful team culture.

**What we offer**

- Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

- Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

- Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

- Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

- Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

- Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.

- Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase.

- Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

- Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.

- Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

- Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

## Skills

### Required
- Certificate III Mechanical Trade
- First Aid
- Permit to Work systems
- JHA/JSA
- safe systems of work
- LNG
- oil and gas
- petrochemical
- utilities
- mining
- heavy industry
- process plant environments
- diesel engines
- turbines
- rotating equipment
- loading arms
- mechanical systems
- CMMS
- work assessment
- planning
- work pack development
- scheduling
- risk management
- turnaround practice
- managing change

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