Maintenance Planner: Scheduling & Reliability in Mining

Hecla Mining Company; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hecla Mining Company is seeking a Maintenance Planner to organize and coordinate site maintenance activities at Lucky Friday operations. The role ensures safe, efficient, and reliable maintenance, working with maintenance, operations, and reliability teams to optimize plant uptime.

The position emphasizes planning, scheduling, CMMS administration, and data-driven maintenance improvements within a mining environment.

Qualifications

• Post high-school degree or Journeyman Certification required.
• Experience setting up, using, and maintaining CMMS (IFS preferred).
• Minimum 3 years of experience in planning maintenance activities.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in maintenance.
• Experience in a mining environment preferred.
• Understanding of mining maintenance practices and equipment such as crushing and grinding circuits, pumping systems, flotation circuits, water treatment, and concentrator operations preferred.
• Must be proficient in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain daily, weekly, monthly, and long-term maintenance schedules.
• Plan and coordinate shutdowns and outages to maximize efficiency and minimize downtime.
• Identify required manpower, skills, materials, and timelines for all planned work.
• Coordinate and oversee contractor and temporary labor activities as required.
• Administer CMMS (IFS), including work orders, master data, and reporting.
• Maintain maintenance records, parts lists, and equipment history.
• Develop, maintain, and generate maintenance cost reports and KPIs.
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance programs.
• Collaborate with reliability engineering to enhance maintenance strategies.

Skills

Planning & Scheduling

Root Cause Analysis

Data Reporting

Safety Awareness

CMMS knowledge

Education

Post high-school degree

Journeyman Certification

Tools

IFS

CMMS

Excel

Job description

Hecla Mining Company is seeking a Maintenance Planner to organize and coordinate site maintenance activities at Lucky Friday operations. The role ensures safe, efficient, and reliable maintenance, working with maintenance, operations, and reliability teams to optimize plant uptime.

The position emphasizes planning, scheduling, CMMS administration, and data-driven maintenance improvements within a mining environment.