Planner - UG Mobile Maintenance

Hecla Mining Company; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Hecla Greens Creek Mine is seeking an Underground Mobile Maintenance Planner to organize, schedule, and prioritize maintenance for underground mobile equipment at a remote island mine near Juneau, Alaska. The role includes data management in the CMMS, procurement support, and collaboration with operations and engineering to optimize maintenance programs.

You will implement process-based maintenance plans, generate work orders, and ensure high data quality and safety standards while working as

Qualifications

• MSHA training provided within first 4 days of hire.
• Prefer 5–7 years planning and scheduling for mobile equipment.
• Experience using a CMMS is required.
• Maintenance planning and data management experience favored.

Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule maintenance for mobile underground equipment.
• Generate work orders and track equipment history.
• Maintain data integrity in CMMS and reports.
• Coordinate with operations, engineering, and external services.
• Procure and manage spare parts and vendor support.
• Ensure safety procedures and environmental compliance.

Skills

Self-motivated

Detail-oriented

Mechanically inclined

Problem solver

Teamwork

Tools

CMMS (Ellipse)

Job description

As our Underground Mobile Maintenance Planner, you are responsible for preparing, compiling, and maintaining records, documents, reports, and statistics pertaining to mobile mining equipment in an underground hard rock mining operation to keep our production going and our profitability up. Every day you will work at a mine on a remote island about 18 miles outside of Juneau, Alaska. You’ll start every day organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing work activities to promote a safe, healthy, and accident-free work environment. You will be called upon to manage all routine data and withdrawal associated with the maintenance group in a computerized maintenance management system. Those who thrive in this role are self-motivated, detail-oriented, mechanically inclined problem solvers. We’re on a remote island; you must know how to work independently, as a part of team, and identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.

About Us

The Greens Creek Mine, located on Admiralty Island 18 miles south of Juneau, is an underground polymetallic mine operating since 1989, employing over 500 people. The mine is owned and operated by Hecla Mining Company, headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Established in 1891, Hecla has a rich history as a distinguished and respected precious metals producer. Winner of numerous safety and environmental awards, Greens Creek is seeking new team members committed to professional growth and success.

Role

Here’s what you can expect in this role:

• Training first. Every hire is provided MSHA training in the first 4 days on the job. We also provide department-level training on not just what to do, but how to do it safely, as well.
• You have extensive knowledge in mechanical maintenance, and maintenance planning skills. You will utilize these skills to procure warehouse stock, manage assets, and assist with supply chain issues at site.
• You will implement process-based maintenance programs, coordinating with operations, engineering, and outside services to refine the overall maintenance program.
• You will generate work orders, maintain in-service details on equipment, and record modifications to equipment.
• You will track as well as schedule preventative maintenance to maintain all safety and environmental-oriented certifications.
• Safety is important. Every piece of equipment and each work area must be inspected before work starts. You will promote and personally observe safety procedures.
• You will be a part of a team you can rely on; a team that will have your back.

Position Summary

As a member of the Greens Creek Maintenance Planning team this position prepares, compiles, and maintains records, documents, reports, and statistics pertaining to mobile equipment for the Centralized Maintenance Group by performing the following essential functions.

Safety, Health & Environmental Responsibilities AND Accountabilities

Include, but are not limited to :

Duties

• Complying with all necessary requirements put in place to prevent incidents, injuries, or losses
• Ensuring the safety and health of themselves and others in the workplace by being responsible for their actions and taking due care while performing their work
• Identifying, eliminating, and reporting hazards as soon as practicable
• Reporting incidents and accidents as soon as practicable
• Disclosing all information regarding incidents and cooperating in incident investigations
• Assisting in the resolution of health and safety matters in a positive and timely manner
• Using and maintaining PPE
• Providing suggestions for improving work processes
• Assisting Management by supporting change to achieve desired targets
• Ensuring that plant and equipment operate within their safe working limits
• Ensuring that correct equipment is used for the job
• Participating in risk assessment methodology
• Participating in safety initiatives
• Receiving training and instruction as required
• Maintaining good housekeeping standards

Essential Functions

• Self-motivated, proactive, detail-oriented, mechanically inclined, problem solver.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Good attention to detail with the ability to recognize discrepancies.
• Must be able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong interpersonal and organization/time management skills.
• Responsible for all routine data entry and withdrawal associated with maintenance, most of which is associated with the Computerized Maintenance Management Information System.
• Maintain equipment statistics – data entry of meter hours, job cards, requisitions
• Ensure high quality data is collected and integrity of the data is kept
• Work closely with team members to identify and solve problems
• Oil sample collection
• Prepare maintenance reports and assist with preventive maintenance optimization
• General administrative duties such as filing, typing, copying, recording meeting minute, etc.
• Planning and scheduling of jobs for mobile equipment
• Utilize the CMMS system to create and maintain equipment and equipment related history
• Preferred - Knowledge of computerized maintenance management information systems - Experience in Ellipse or similar computerized maintenance management system.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Procurement

• Maintain warehouse stock in conjunction with warehouse personnel and handle maintenance procurement as needed
• Cost control and reporting,
• Maintain and assist creation of vendor contracts
• Procure and schedule vendor support
• Maintain critical spares, consignments, and parts listings and descriptions.

Asset Management

• APL / warehouse stock; identify equipment without APL; identify equipment that has incomplete APL’s.
• Record APL of equipment without; record updates to equipment without APL; update warehouse stock to match APL research; create Microsoft spread sheet parts list; identify slow moving stock; and identify stock that needs to be made obsolete because of no longer having equipment; identify parts and equipment with abnormal spare parts and correct; review in stock quantities are over stocked, understocked or sufficient.

Assist Supply Chain

• Safety Health & Environmental Analysis (Shea) document developments; initial sourcing and procurement; minimize stock warehouse satellite accumulation areas; identify repair and return items and tag and initiate repair with the warehouse; and organize all arriving Direct Issue procurement parts and record location.

Enterprise Resource Planning system

• Generate work orders; maintain Birth certificates on all equipment and record modifications to equipment.

Refine Overall Maintenance Program

• Implement process-based maintenance programs.
• Monitor and review standards and performance guidelines, including predictive/conditions monitoring programs and applications.
• Incorporate multi-discipline programs to enhance overall maintenance program.
• Coordinate with operations, engineering, and outside services for maintenance and system upgrades.

Preventive Maintenance Performance

• Maintain and track all lube and PM scheduling using Ellipse and data base.
• Maintain all safety/environmental oriented pm certifications and schedules.
• Advise on maintenance and operations procedures.

Qualifications And Experience

• Demonstrated commitment to ensuring a safe working environment.
• Completion of a maintenance trade school program preferred.
• Prefer a minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in planning and scheduling for mobile equipment.
• Prior experience required in the use of a CMMS
• Must be able to demonstrate the values of integrity, respect, and collaboration
• Equivalent experience may be acceptable to meet education or job scope requirements.

Other Qualifications

Pass a pre-employment physical and drug screen

Pass a position-specific physical demands assessment

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, employees may be frequently required to stand, walk or sit for extended periods of time; use hand and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; regularly required to talk and hear.

Other Physical Demands

Vision - Constant

• Able to judge distances and spatial relationships to avoid accidents while driving and walking underground
• Have clarity of vision while operating machinery, reading gauges, and placing tools
• Have clarity of vision for distances while navigating within the mine and access roads efficiently and safely
• Able to adjust varying points of reference while safely navigating the terrain, maintaining awareness of traffic, and operating tools and machinery
• Able to identify vehicles, machinery, and people in peripheral vision

Speaking - Occasional

• Able to clearly communicate with co-workers and supervisors on the radio and in person

Hearing - Occasional

• Must wear hearing protection while working in the mine

Work Environment & Job Schedule

Employees may be frequently exposed to underground work environment; outside weather conditions, wet and/or humid conditions; extreme cold, extreme heat, potentially hazardous wildlife; moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; explosives and vibration. The noise level in most work environments is usually very loud. This position is based in Juneau, AK and would work a 4 days on 3 days off schedule.

About Us

The Greens Creek Mine, located on Admiralty Island, 18 miles south of Juneau, is an underground polymetallic mine employing over 500 people. The mine is owned and operated by Hecla Mining Company, headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Established in 1891, Hecla has a rich history as a distinguished and respected precious metals producer. Winner of numerous safety and environmental awards, Greens Creek is seeking new team members committed to professional growth and success.

Greens Creek

The Greens Creek Mine, located on Admiralty Island, 18 miles south of Juneau, is an underground polymetallic mine employing over 500 people. The mine is owned and operated by Hecla Mining Company, headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Established in 1891, Hecla has a rich history as a distinguished and respected precious metals producer. Winner of numerous safety and environmental awards, Greens Creek is seeking new team members committed to professional growth and success.

Community

Juneau, Alaska's capital, is the third largest city in the state. Like Alaska, Juneau is full of contrasts, a sophisticated cosmopolitan city in the heart of the Tongass National Forest. Nestled at the base of mountains overlooking the Gastineau Channel, Juneau is surrounded by intercoastal waterways, lush rain forests, rugged mountainsides, and awe-inspiring glaciers. This small city has it all, the adventure of the "last frontier" as well as a good education system, year-round cultural and sports activities, a wide variety of entertainment, world class fishing and wildlife viewing, temperate weather, and a strong sense of community. Juneau is rich in mining history and Greens Creek is proud to contribute to that heritage by operating in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.

Compensation & Benefits

Hecla Greens Creek offers competitive pay based on experience and an excellent low-cost benefits package for medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance as well as other coverages such as disability coverage and life insurance. Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with company match.