Operations Planner

Tilden Mining Company; Ishpeming Township (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Education assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in Ishpeming, MI is seeking an Operations Planner to support safe, reliable pellet plant performance by developing and coordinating daily and weekly operating plans.

This role aligns operations, maintenance, and training activities, ensures disciplined workorder execution, and drives shifttoshift continuity. This position emphasizes safety, environmental standards, and continuous improvement while coordinating with engineering to match equipment capabilities and schedules.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years industrial/mining/steel/process industry experience.
• Microsoft Office and CMMS experience (Ellipse preferred).
• Strong communication, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in an industrial plant environment.
• Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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 crossshift consistency.
• Coordinate with engineering to align operational plans with equipment capabilities.
• Monitor delays, break-ins, and interruptions to improve operational 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.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Microsoft Office

CMMS (Ellipse)

Education

Associate degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Ellipse CMMS

Job description

Cleveland-Cliffs has an opportunity as an Operations Planner in Ishpeming, MI. The Operations Planner supports safe, reliable, and efficient pellet plant performance by developing and coordinating daily and weekly operating plans. The role aligns operations, maintenance, and training activities; ensures disciplined workorder execution; and drives consistent shifttoshift continuity.

Summary of 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 crossshift consistency.
• Coordinate with engineering to align operational plans with equipment capabilities.
• Monitor delays, break-ins, and interruptions to improve operational 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.
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate degree or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years industrial/mining/steel/process industry experience.
• Microsoft Office and CMMS experience (Ellipse preferred).
• Strong communication, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in an industrial plant environment.
• Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is the largest flat-rolled steel company and the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America. The Company is vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. We offer an excellent total compensation package including competitive pay with variable compensation opportunity, health insurance, retirement plan, educationassistance, paid time off, and more.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is an equal opportunity employer - M/F/Veteran/Disability. We are a drug-free workplace and conduct pre-employment screening as a condition of employment.