Industrial Operations Planner: Scheduling, Safety & Coordination

Cleveland--cliffs-1; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Education assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is seeking an Operations Planner in Ishpeming, MI. The role develops and coordinates daily and weekly operating plans, aligning operations, maintenance, and training activities to maintain safe, reliable pellet plant performance.

The candidate will manage work orders, monitor PMs in Ellipse, and drive shift-to-shift continuity while contributing to reliability and process improvements. Equal opportunity employer with competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent experience required.
• 3–5 years of industrial/mining/steel/process industry experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and CMMS (Ellipse preferred).
• Strong communication, analytical, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce safety and environmental standards.
• Develop and communicate daily and shift operating plans.
• Coordinate operational and maintenance schedules.
• Manage work orders in Ellipse and monitor PM compliance.
• Document shift performance and support deviation correction.
• Participate in reliability and process improvement initiatives.
• Support training alignment and cross‑shift consistency.
• Coordinate with engineering to align operational plans with equipment capabilities.
• Monitor delays and interruptions to improve scheduling.
• Prepare weekly operational forecasts and resource plans.
• Collaborate with supervisors to minimize variation between shifts.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and quality procedures.
• Communicate with upstream and downstream areas to coordinate work and deliveries.
• Evaluate deviations from plans and implement corrective actions.
• Identify improvement opportunities using work‑order and process data.

Skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Industrial plant environment

Education

Associate degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Ellipse CMMS

Microsoft Office

Job description

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is seeking an Operations Planner in Ishpeming, MI. The role develops and coordinates daily and weekly operating plans, aligning operations, maintenance, and training activities to maintain safe, reliable pellet plant performance.

The candidate will manage work orders, monitor PMs in Ellipse, and drive shift-to-shift continuity while contributing to reliability and process improvements. Equal opportunity employer with competitive compensation and benefits.