About the Business
Finch Restorations is Australia's oldest car restoration business and is still growing. We have four workshop sites in Mount Barker where we carry out restorations. In Woodside we have a fifth site where we undertake automotive repairs and servicing. Mount Barker and Woodside are both in the Adelaide Hills just 20 minutes up the South-Eastern Freeway from the Old Tollgate.
Finch Restorations is a vertically integrated business at the pinnacle of what is fundamentally a cottage industry. In this industry, many old-school skills are disappearing and parts suppliers span from OEMs to hobbyists and deceased estates. We specialise in ground-up restorations where fully dismantled vehicles can involve 2,000 to 4,000 components needing assessment, potential refurbishment, storage and control. Multiply those statistics by 40-50 vehicle projects, each taking nominally three months to three years, and a high level of diligence and strong methodologies are required in a data driven environment.
We use an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system which we have been progressively customising for vehicle restorations over the last six or so years.
Being vertically integrated, our highly experienced and mature technician workforce encompasses diverse trades and skills: coachbuilding, panel-beating, timberwork, spray-painting, mechanics, engine-building, auto-electrical, blacksmithing, whitesmithing, motor-trimming, veneering, lacquering, and fabrication. Our technicians are supported by our dedicated Project Management Office that performs planning and monitoring, manages client and stakeholder communications, and commercial functions.
Due to the unique nature of our business at the pinnacle of a cottage industry, we are continually learning, growing and improving. Enthusiatic, well-organised, and diverse-skilled staff with a 'can do' attitude are very important to us.
Why work for Finch?
- Opportunities: With over two dozen personnel, we can offer great opportunities for people with the right experience, skills, and attitude to make their marks in the professional restoration and remanufacturing of classic and historical vehicles.
- Multi-skilled team: Our team is multi-skilled and has a passion for preserving and restoring classic and historic vehicles and knowledge sharing allows you to grow your own skill set.
- Crafts-based environment: We work on a broad range of vehicles in a diverse, skilled, crafts-based environment.
- Work-life balance: we offer a good work-life balance and flexible work arrangements.
Production Planner and Scheduler Role
Tasks and Responsibilities
- Manage and integrate portfolio timelines in both Agile and waterfall frameworks.
- Incorporate project product backlogs into the central portfolio product backlog, and ensure that workshop product backlogs are continually full with work for several sprints.
- With the workshop supervisors, allocate workorders to technicians for fortnightly sprints.
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups.
- Mentor and motivate the team to improve processes.
- Produce and maintain KPI reports.
- Produce timely work-orders, in concert with workshop supervisors, to ensure that project backlogs are full with three to four sprints of workorders for each project.
- Act as back-up administrator for projects during peak periods, or absence of team members.
About you
Your skills and experience will include:
- Experience in production planning in the manufacturing, engineering, or automotive sectors.
- Experience with Microsoft Project and the PWA cloud environment and able to utilise the enterprise and portfolio management functionality of Project Online.
- Experience in SharePoint and / or Trello would be an advantage, but not essential.
- Experience in the generation and issuing of workorders.
- Experience in Agile and / or Scrum processes and methodolgies would be an advantage, but not essential.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills, and able to engage with team members.
- Have a good computer literacy with the MS Office suite and able to use an ERP system.
Personal Attributes
- Enthusiastic and organised with a positive outlook, 'can do' attitude and ability to work effectively as a confident team member.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Tech savvy.
- Have patience and a good sense of humour.
- Takes pride in their work.
- Good time management skills.
- Aptitude for recognising change needs and implementing change.
To Apply
Please submit your Resume via email to
Applications close Monday, 31 October 2022.
