Cortez/Goldrush - Senior Planner with Supervisory Responsibilities

Nevada Gold Mines; Elko (NV); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits (medical, dental,

401k with employer contribution

Paid time off

Job summary

Nevada Gold Mines is seeking an Underground Senior Mobile Maintenance Planner to drive detailed planning for mobile equipment and fixed plants at the Cortez/Goldrush operations. You will lead a team, align maintenance activities with safety and production goals, and optimize plans using CMMS and data-driven approaches.

The role emphasizes cost control, budget ownership, and continuous improvement, with a focus on reliability and efficiency in a high-hazard mining environment.

Qualifications

• Deep technical understanding of maintenance practices, failure modes, and asset reliability.
• Significant mining maintenance planning experience with leadership and supervision.
• Proven experience with CMMS (SAP, Oracle, Pronto, JD Edwards, etc.).
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, and cost-control abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of short-, medium-, and long-term maintenance plans for mobile equipment and assets.
• Review and prioritize maintenance demand to align with production and safety.
• Develop job plans, work packs, and labor estimates ensuring accuracy and safety.
• Lead maintenance budgets and forecast spend, providing recommendations to management.
• Monitor cost performance, variances, and KPIs to drive improvements.
• Provide supervision and coaching to planners and ensure timely deliverables.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

MSHA compliance

Data analysis

MS Office

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Pronto

JD Edwards

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are you a maintenance professional who is looking for career growth with a dynamic mining company? Nevada Gold Mines has the job for you!

Position Description

Are you a maintenance professional who is looking for career growth with a dynamic mining company? Nevada Gold Mines has the job for you!

Our people division is growing, and we are looking for an Underground Senior Mobile Maintenance Planner at our Cortez/Goldrush operations. As part of the Underground Maintenance team, the successful candidate will improve maintenance efficiency using planned, predictive, and maintenance techniques and systems.

At Nevada Gold Mines we are committed to a safe work environment sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy on our host communities. We offer a generous benefits package which includes a competitive medical, dental, and vision plan with national provider networks, a 401k retirement plan with employer contribution, paid time off, company-sponsored medical clinics, company match share purchase program, and much more!

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the development of detailed short-, medium-, and long-term maintenance plans for mobile equipment, fixed plant, or assigned asset classes, ensuring plans are aligned with approved maintenance strategies, asset criticality, reliability objectives, production requirements, and available resources
• Direct the review, screening, prioritization, and coordination of maintenance demand, ensuring work is aligned with production requirements, equipment criticality, maintenance strategy, safety considerations, and resource capacity
• Provide leadership and quality assurance for the development of job plans and work packs, ensuring labor estimates, task lists, tooling, parts, permits, drawings, procedures, and safety requirements are complete, accurate, standardized, and executable
• Lead the development of maintenance budgets based on approved maintenance strategies, asset plans, maintenance demand, historical performance, resource requirements, and planned work scope; establish appropriate cost assumptions and provide budget recommendations to management
• Maintain and manage the assigned maintenance budget and forecasted spend, monitoring actuals, commitments, accruals, forecast-to-budget performance, and variances; identify trends, develop corrective actions, and ensure expenditures remain aligned with approved maintenance plans and business objectives
• Oversee cost forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and cost control for planned maintenance activity, partnering with maintenance, finance, supply chain, and operations to improve cost visibility and financial performance
• Lead the identification and assessment of reliability risks, recurring defects, and maintenance performance gaps, and direct the development and implementation of maintenance strategy improvements
• Oversee schedule compliance, backlog, planned-versus-actual performance, and maintenance KPIs; analyze trends, hold planning resources accountable for performance, and provide recommendations and performance updates to management
• Provide supervisory and functional leadership for maintenance planning activities, assigning priorities and resources, setting expectations, monitoring performance, addressing performance gaps, and ensuring planning deliverables are completed safely, accurately, and on time
• Ensure planning and maintenance execution activities comply with safety, environmental, statutory, company, and site requirements, and provide direction when compliance or planning quality issues are identified
• Govern planning standards, processes, systems, and data integrity across multiple platforms, and establish consistent planning practices, controls, and performance expectations
• Provide oversight of technical maintenance execution and planning effectiveness, ensuring activities are aligned to measurable reliability, productivity, schedule, and financial performance outcomes
• Serve as the subject matter expert and technical leader on complex maintenance matters, providing direction, coaching, and decision support while ensuring appropriate technical solutions are developed and implemented
• Lead the review, screening, and prioritization of maintenance work requests in line with production requirements, equipment criticality, safety considerations, maintenance strategy, and budget constraints
• Provide governance and assurance that planned work adheres to company maintenance standards, OEM recommendations, regulatory requirements, approved maintenance strategies, and budgetary expectations
• Oversee the quality, accuracy, standardization, and continuous improvement of work plans and task lists; coach and develop planners and hold planning resources accountable to established standards
• Provide planning leadership and supervisory oversight for project activities, coordinating resources, deliverables, schedules, costs, and quality requirements while ensuring adherence to prescribed project management methodology
• Lead or oversee root cause analysis for recurring or critical failures and ensure findings are translated into sustainable maintenance, planning, reliability, and budget improvements
• Supervise, mentor, coach, and develop maintenance planning personnel; establish performance expectations, provide feedback, support capability development, and promote consistent application of planning best practices

Qualifications

• Deep technical understanding of maintenance practices, failure modes, and asset reliability
• Significant mining maintenance planning experience at an advanced or SME level, with demonstrated experience in team leadership and direct supervision
• Proven experience with CMMS (SAP, Oracle, Pronto, JD Edwards, etc.)
• Strong planning, prioritization, and scheduling capability
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, coaching, influencing, and supervisory leadership skills
• Ability to analyze maintenance, cost, and financial data and translate findings into practical action, direction, and corrective measures
• High attention to detail and strong documentation discipline
• Solid understanding and applying of MSHA regulations and compliance
• Demonstrated experience developing maintenance budgets, managing forecasted spend, monitoring financial performance, and controlling maintenance costs
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and develop less experienced planners and promote consistent planning practices
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite of software (Word, Excel, Project, Primavera, Outlook)

What We Can Offer You

• A comprehensive compensation package including a competitive medical, dental, and vision plan with national provider networks, a 401k retirement plan with employer contribution AND employer match, paid time off, company-sponsored medical clinics, company match share purchase program, and much more!
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Endless opportunities to grow and learn with industry colleagues.
• Access to a variety of career opportunities across the organization.
• Nevada Gold Mines is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal
• opportunity employer.

Thank you for your application, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

About Us

Our mission is to be the world’s most valued gold and copper mining business. We are committed to partnering with our host countries and communities to transform their natural resources into tangible benefits and mutual prosperity.

Barrick is a leading global mining, exploration and development company. With one of the largest portfolios of world-class and life-long gold and copper assets in the industry - including six of the world's Tier One gold mines - Barrick's operations an projects span 18 countries and five continents. Barrick is also the largest gold producer in the United States. We create real, long-term value for all stakeholders through responsible mining, strong partnerships, and a disciplined approach to growth. Barrick shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "B" and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "ABX".

About The Team

Nevada Gold Mines (NGM) is a joint venture between Barrick (61.5%) and Newmont (38.5%) that combined our significant assets across Nevada in 2019 to create the single largest gold-producing complex in the world. NGM produces approximately 3.5 million ounces of gold a year. The massive mining operation comprises eight mines along with their associated infrastructure and processing facilities and hosts three of Barrick’s Tier One assets: Carlin, Cortez, and Turquoise Ridge. At NGM, our mission is to be the world’s most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and owning the best assets, with the best people, to deliver sustainable returns for our owners and partners.