Position Overview
- Ongoing | Full Time | $119k - $134k +15.4% super
- Flexible work environment wiht generous leave provisions
- Purpose driven, nationally significant work
About the Opportunity
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.
About You
You are a confident and thoughtful trade, engineering or manufacturing professional who enjoys bringing people, systems, and priorities together. You will bring:
- Experience in metal manufacturing trades, engineering, or production planning within a regulated environment
- Strong people leadership and performance management capability
- Confidence working with SAP, planning systems, budgets, and schedules
- A collaborative communication style and a strong customer focus
- A commitment to safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement
Teamwork builds the solution; customer focus defines its success - Bianca Shepherd, Engineering Support Workshop Manager
Your Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team of specialised production planners to provide quality and timely delivery of products and services by setting work objectives and managing and assessing the performance of team members;
- Responsible for Planning System and databases including: data integrity; delivery of quality & project status reporting for management and identification/development of system improvements; including providing high level SAP support and advice to the Engineering division;
- Responsible for the initiation and oversight of customer works prior to commencement. This includes ensuring all requisite documentation is reviewed. The role may entail development of cost estimates, assessing budgets and deadline deliverables; compiling technical materials to ensure planners can commence work efficiently and accurately within the centralised planning function
- Manage and control requests and enquiries by applying technical skills, engineering experience and divisional knowledge to make decisions, work closely with the customer regarding requisite documentation, prior to the acceptance and allocation of work to the production planner, QC team or external service providers.
- Manage job progress through to completion, including the identification and mitigation of high risk and complex aspects and ensuring that fragmented requests are consolidated into correctly identified and managed projects;
Please click here to view the Position Description.
About Us
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.
Benefits of Working with Us
ANSTO offers training and development, performance-based salary increases and an extensive range of leave provisions to help employees balance work and personal commitments.
- 18 days personal/carers leave for each year of service
- 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
- Generous parental leave provisions:
- 18 weeks Parental leave for primary caregiver
- 14 weeks Parental leave for secondary caregiver (with incremental increase to a maximum of 18 weeks effective 01/03/2027)
- Annual flu vaccinations
- Cultural, Naidoc and First Nations ceremonial leave
If you want to join a world class organisation that's making a difference in the lives of Australians, apply now!
How to Apply
For further technical information relating to this position please refer to the Position Description 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.