Planner - Stationary Maintenance

Sibanye Stillwater; Big Timber (MT); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sibanye-Stillwater is seeking a Planner - Stationary Maintenance to develop resource-ready work plans and schedules for stationary mechanical assets at East Bould Mine. You will coordinate cross-functional outages, manage resources, and ensure adherence to safety and environmental controls while optimizing maintenance execution.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience interpreting technical documents, and the ability to forecast labor, materials, and costs for preventive,

Qualifications

• Requires interpreting technical drawings, schematics, specs, manuals, and maintenance records.
• Experience planning stationary, fixed-plant maintenance in heavy-industrial settings.
• Experience with backlog management, labor/material estimating, and work-order prep.

Responsibilities

• Develop resource-ready work plans and executable maintenance schedules for stationary mechanical assets.
• Coordinate outages, resources, and work-management processes to support safe, reliable operations.
• Incorporate hazards, permits, isolation requirements, and environmental controls into planned work.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Estimation skills

Reading drawings and schematics

Clear communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Planning and scheduling

Maintenance planning basics

Education

High school diploma

Associate/Bachelor\'s degree in related field

Journeyman-level trade qualification

Job description

Planner - Stationary Maintenance

Location:

East Bould Mine - McLeod, MT

Schedule:

7X7 Rotating

Job Responsibilities and Duties:

At Sibanye-Stillwater, the Planner - Stationary Maintenance develops resource-ready work plans and executable maintenance schedules for stationary mechanical assets. The Planner maintains separate technical ownership for each discipline while coordinating shared outages, resources, and work-management processes to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations.

The Planner's primary duties are:

• Incorporate hazards, controls, permits, isolation requirements, task qualifications, environmental controls, and return-to-service requirements into planned work.
• Participate in field walkdowns, inspections, audits, and safety meetings; verify compliance with MSHA, site standards, and stationary-maintenance.
• Plan preventive, predictive, corrective, and major-repair work for hoists, conveyors, crushers, feeders, pumps, dewatering and ventilation systems, fans, compressors, piping, valves, structures, hydraulic and lubrication systems, and other fixed mechanical assets.
• Define work scope using field condition, equipment history, inspections, condition-monitoring results, OEM recommendations, and reliability findings.
• Plan component replacement, alignment, welding, machining, rigging, lifting, lubrication, inspection, isolation, and mechanical commissioning requirements.
• Validate mechanical parts, repairable spares, wear components, fabricated items, rigging equipment, and specialty tools before scheduling.
• Maintain mechanical equipment history, failure codes, bills of materials, standard jobs, and repair records.
• Develop long-range, monthly, weekly, and daily schedules aligned with approved priorities, preventive-maintenance needs, production requirements, equipment access, shutdown windows, and available resources.
• Resource-load and sequence ready work; confirm labor, skills, materials, tools, test equipment, contractors, work areas, and technical support are available.
• Facilitate planning and scheduling meetings and communicate priorities, constraints, outages, schedule changes, and maintenance impacts to Supervisors and affected stakeholders.
• Partner with the responsible General Foreman to establish maintenance priorities, approve weekly and long-range schedules, and align planned work with operational objectives.
• Escalate resource, access, outage, and operational constraints to the responsible General Foreman for resolution.
• Ensure Environmental Excellence is practiced throughout area of responsibility by identifying issues and coaching peers to enhance practices.
• Maintain standards and expectations for quality housekeeping, escalating non-conformance issues when necessary.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage competing demands.
• Ability to estimate labor, materials, duration, and cost with reasonable accuracy.
• Ability to distinguish mechanical requirements and recognize multidisciplinary dependencies.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, schematics, specifications, manuals, and work orders.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong collaboration, coordination, and relationship-building skills across technical and operational groups.
• Maintenance planning and scheduling, including scoping, estimating, backlog management, resource loading, shutdown coordination, and schedule compliance.
• Underground fixed-plant and stationary-maintenance practices.
• Fixed mechanical assets, including hoists, conveyors, crushers, pumps, ventilation, and dewatering systems.

Education & Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience interpreting technical drawings, schematics, specifications, equipment manuals, and maintenance records.
• Five years of relevant stationary, fixed-plant, industrial mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, maintenance-planning, or closely related heavy-industrial experience.
• Associate or bachelor's degree in maintenance technology, electrical technology, mechanical technology, engineering technology, asset management, business, or a related field preferred.
• At least one year of experience planning or scheduling maintenance work, including work scoping, labor and material estimating, backlog management, and work-order preparation preferred.
• Journeyman-level trade qualification or equivalent technical training in industrial electrical, instrumentation, millwright, mechanical, welding, or fixed-plant maintenance preferred.

Sibanye-Stillwater is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at Sibanye-Stillwater are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation or preference, marital or family status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.