Mining Reliability & Planning Lead

Northern Star Pogo Mine; Delta Junction (AK); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Insurance

401k

Paid leave

Job summary

Northern Star Resources Limited’s Pogo mine is seeking a Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator to lead the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability and projects, driving plant availability and asset reliability at the Pogo processing plant.

The role requires establishing disciplined planning cycles, minimizing backlog, improving PM compliance and coaching planners, reliability engineers and maintenance leaders in work management discipline.

Qualifications

• Significant maintenance planning and reliability leadership experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry or fixed plant operations.
• Strong understanding of gold processing or similar mineral processing plants.
• Demonstrated experience improving maintenance work management in a reactive or underperforming environment.
• Experience leading planners, schedulers, reliability engineers or maintenance improvement teams.
• Practical knowledge of preventative maintenance, backlog management, weekly scheduling, shutdown planning, defect elimination, root cause analysis, maintenance KPIs and CMMS discipline.
• Experience with Pronto, SAP, AMT or similar CMMS. Pronto experience is highly regarded.
• Strong communication, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
• Practical, field-focused leadership style with the ability to build trust quickly.
• Ability to work with imperfect data while improving discipline, systems and reporting quality.
• Remote mining experience is desirable.
• Gold processing experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling and reliability function.
• Establish and maintain a disciplined weekly planning and scheduling cycle.
• Improve work identification, scoping, planning, scheduling, execution and close-out.
• Embed a plan-do-check-act approach across work management and reliability routines.
• Review, cleanse and control maintenance backlog, including aged, duplicate, obsolete and poorly scoped work orders.
• Improve PM compliance, particularly for critical assets and statutory maintenance.
• Review PM strategies and recommend improvements to task quality, frequency and execution discipline.
• Develop and maintain a practical maintenance KPI dashboard.
• Monitor and report planned work ratio, reactive work, schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog health, work order quality and reliability performance.
• Lead bad actor reviews and defect elimination for repeat failures and high-impact equipment.
• Ensure reliability actions are practical, prioritised, assigned, resourced and closed out.
• Lead shutdown including Cadence accountability. Major work planning, including shutdown planning quality, materials readiness, contractor readiness and post-shutdown close-out.
• Support critical spares reviews and improvement of bills of materials.
• Coach planners, reliability engineers, supervisors and maintenance leaders in work management discipline.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Reliability leadership

CMMS experience

Communication

Field leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Pronto CMMS

SAP CMMS

AMT CMMS

Job description

Northern Star Resources Limited’s Pogo mine is seeking a Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator to lead the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability and projects, driving plant availability and asset reliability at the Pogo processing plant.

The role requires establishing disciplined planning cycles, minimizing backlog, improving PM compliance and coaching planners, reliability engineers and maintenance leaders in work management discipline.