Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator

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 (ASX: NST) is an Australian ASX 100 gold producer with three Tier-1 world-class projects located in highly prospective and low sovereign risk regions of Australia and North America. Northern Star is the largest Australian gold producer and among the top 10 gold miners globally. Northern Star continues to invest in building a strong asset base through strategic acquisitions and aggressive exploration to extend the mine lives across its world-class operations and generate earning accretive value for its Shareholders through operational effectiveness.

What do we offer?

• Vibrant hub of activity on site, with the ability to be part of successful and productive team
• Permanent position and extended mine-life offering job security.
• Excellent remuneration package with bonuses, insurances, 401k and paid leave.
• Ongoing development opportunities and growth within a company that continuously invest in their people.

The Role:

The Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator reports to the Maintenance Superintendent and the primary role is to lead the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability & project function to improve plant availability, asset reliability, work management discipline, project completion and maintenance execution readiness across the Pogo processing plant.

The role is accountable for establishing and maintaining a disciplined maintenance planning and scheduling cycle, improving preventative maintenance compliance, controlling backlog, improving work order quality, strengthening reliability routines and ensuring that reliability actions are converted into practical, executable work. The role provides leadership to planners, reliability engineers and associated support roles to ensure maintenance work is identified, scoped, planned, scheduled, executed and closed out to a high standard.

Success in this role will be demonstrated by improved maintenance discipline, visible and reliable maintenance KPIs, effective weekly planning and reliability routines, improved shutdown planning, reduced reactive work, improved critical asset performance and practical defect elimination of repeat or high-impact failures. The role requires strong field engagement, active coaching, accountability and close integration between Maintenance, Operations, Warehouse / Supply, Contractors and other site functions.

At Northern Star, our STARR Core Values are our guiding principles, and they are integral to the working lives of all our workers and operations.

• 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.

Desired Experience & Competencies

• 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.

The Details:

Working a 15 days on, 13 days off, off rotating schedule of days and nights, up to 12 hours a day or more at a remote campsite. Extreme conditions, including but not limited to extreme and changing weather conditions, dust, mud, varying levels of noise, varying degrees of light and dark, in and around artificial light and in a confined work area.

Employees are required to stay on site at the company provided camp during the work rotation. Camp facilities provide dining service, games room, exercise & weight room, sauna, and accommodation rooms. Dormitory rooms have a land line phone, internet & cable tv programs. Cell service is available when using Wi‑Fi. The Company provides a bus service to and from Fairbanks, Delta Junction and Tok, Alaska.

Why join us?

When you join our Company, you join the Northern Star Team. You will be engaged in a dynamic work environment where you will be valued as an integral part of the team, and where you can develop and grow with our business.

Northern Star actively supports and contributes to the local community in which we operate. We are a proud supporter of the Veterans' Employment Commitment and recognise the advantage of a diversified workplace including diversity of gender, thought, experience, and ethnicity. We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and strive for workplace excellence.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates living in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Delta and Tok regions will be given first consideration.

Due to the large volume of applications, only applicants who are shortlisted will be contacted.