One of Australia’s leading pulp and paper manufacturing sites in regional Victoria.

Join a team focused on safety, innovation, and sustainability, where your skills contribute to essential everyday products. At Opal, you’ll find a supportive, collaborative environment with real opportunities for growth and development.

Our Maryvale Paper Mill maintenance team is seeking an experienced Planning and Scheduling Manager to join us. Reporting to the Mill Maintenance Manager, this is a newly reintroduced, highly strategic leadership role.

Following a period of decentralised operations, we are re-establishing this pivotal position to drive mill-wide ownership, governance, and absolute consistency across our maintenance planning and scheduling frameworks. You will eliminate fragmented processes across different plant areas, stepping in to build a unified, predictable, and highly disciplined work-readiness culture.

You will directly lead a dedicated core team of 3 Schedulers, while holding dotted-line leadership over 20 Area Superintendents and Planners to embed site-wide standards.

The focus of this role will be to:

We are looking for a practical, forward-thinking planning and scheduling leader. You don't necessarily need pulp or paper experience—we are keen to talk to people from any heavy industry, manufacturing, or continuous-process environment where keeping large-scale assets running predictably is key.

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Discover more… by visiting our website at www.opalanz.com

Opal is an equal opportunity employer committed to a safe, inclusive, and diverse workplace. Please note all successful applicants must hold valid work rights for Australia and pass a satisfactory pre-employment medical which includes drug and alcohol checks.