Reliability & Planning Lead — Mining Processing

Northern Star Mining Services Pty Ltd.; Alaska; Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Insurance

401k

Paid leave

On-site role

Job summary

Northern Star Resources Limited in Delta Junction, AK, seeks a Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator to lead maintenance planning, scheduling and reliability across the Pogo processing plant. You will drive disciplined weekly planning, improve PM compliance, backlog handling and KPI visibility while coordinating field teams and contractors in a remote mining setting.

The role requires strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of improving maintenance in mineral

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.
• 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 to improve plant availability and asset reliability.
• Establish and maintain a disciplined weekly planning and scheduling cycle.
• Improve identification, scoping, planning, scheduling, execution and close-out of maintenance work.
• Embed plan-do-check-act approach across work management and reliability routines.
• Review and control maintenance backlog, PM compliance and work order quality.
• Develop and maintain a practical maintenance KPI dashboard and report regularly.
• Coordinate shutdown planning and materials readiness for major outages.
• Coach planners, reliability engineers, supervisors and maintenance leaders in work management discipline.
• Ensure reliability actions are practical, prioritized, resourced and closed out.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Reliability leadership

CMMS discipline

Stakeholder management

Coaching

Field leadership

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Root cause analysis

ShutDown planning

Tools

Pronto

SAP

AMT

Job description

Northern Star Resources Limited in Delta Junction, AK, seeks a Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator to lead maintenance planning, scheduling and reliability across the Pogo processing plant. You will drive disciplined weekly planning, improve PM compliance, backlog handling and KPI visibility while coordinating field teams and contractors in a remote mining setting.

The role requires strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of improving maintenance in mineral