Senior Maintenance Planner – Mobile Equipment

Hudbay Minerals U.S. Business Unit; Sahuarita (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudbay Minerals U.S. Business Unit in Sahuarita, AZ seeks a Senior Maintenance Planner – Mobile Equipment to lead maintenance planning for mobile assets at the Copper World Project.

The role focuses on safe, reliable, and productive mining operations with emphasis on reliability, planning readiness, and cost control. The successful candidate will oversee preventive and condition-based maintenance, coordination with mine operations, and integration of SAP PM and CMMS systems.

Qualifications

• Experience with planning mobile equipment maintenance and reliability-focused tasks.
• Leadership in coordinating maintenance planning and scheduling activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead mobile equipment maintenance planning activities.
• Coordinate maintenance scheduling to maximize equipment availability.
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance programs for mobile assets.
• Manage maintenance readiness, contractor performance, and cost control.
• Support OEM technical services and spare parts strategies.
• Ensure safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Maintenance planning

Scheduling

Reliability

Contractor management

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Role Title

Senior Maintenance Planner – Mobile Equipment

Reports To

Maintenance Manager, Mobile Equipment Mining

Job Type

Full Time, Regular

Location:

Sahuarita, AZ

About Hudbay

Hudbay (TSX, NYSE: HBM) is a copper-focused mining company with three long-life operations and a world-class pipeline of copper growth projects in tier-one mining-friendly jurisdictions of Canada, Peru, and the United States.

Hudbay's operating portfolio includes the Constancia mine in Cusco (Peru), the Snow Lake operations in Manitoba (Canada) and the Copper Mountain mine in British Columbia (Canada). Copper is the primary metal produced by the Company, which is complemented by meaningful gold production and by-product zinc, silver and molybdenum. Hudbay's growth pipeline includes the Copper World project in Arizona (United States), the Cactus project in Arizona (United States), the Mason project in Nevada (United States), the Llaguen project in La Libertad (Peru) and several expansion and exploration opportunities near its existing operations.

The value Hudbay creates and the impact it has is embodied in its purpose statement: “We care about our people, our communities, and our planet. Hudbay provides the metals the world needs. We work sustainably, transform lives, and create better futures for communities.” Hudbay’s mission is to create sustainable value and strong returns by leveraging its core strengths in community relations, focused exploration, mine development and efficient operations.

Mission

To create sustainable value and strong returns by leveraging our core strengths in community relations, focused exploration, mine development and efficient operations.

Purpose Of Role

The Maintenance Planner - Mobile Equipment is responsible for providing planning, and execution for all mobile equipment maintenance activities supporting the Copper World Project and mining operation to ensure safe, reliable, and productive mining operations. The role is accountable for fleet reliability, maintenance planning and scheduling, electrical and automation maintenance, autonomous haulage system maintenance support, maintenance readiness, asset management, contractor performance, and cost control to ensure safe, reliable, and productive mining operations.

Role Accountabilities

Leadership & Operational Coordination

• Lead all mobile equipment maintenance planning activities supporting mining operations.
• Provide planning leadership for maintenance, scheduling, reliability, electrical maintenance, instrumentation, automation, and AHS maintenance functions.
• Coordinate maintenance planning and scheduling activities to maximize equipment availability and utilization.
• Partner with Mine Operations to maximize fleet performance, equipment availability, and operating efficiency.
• Confers with mine supervision to implement equipment maintenance activities and monitors activities to assure work is progressing according to established procedures.
• Participate in operational readiness reviews, risk assessments, and business improvement initiatives.
• Performs observations and analyses of mine equipment maintenance activities, prepares reports and maintains related data.
• Monitors for quality, quantity, and completeness of the assigned equipment maintenance tasks.
• Distributes work orders and assists maintenance supervisors with job coordination.

Maintenance Strategy & Reliability

• Develop and implement maintenance management systems, standards, procedures, and work management processes.
• Establish preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs for all mobile assets, developing fleet lifecycle management strategies and equipment replacement plans.
• Establish reliability-centered maintenance practices and asset health monitoring programs.
• Participate in root cause failure analysis investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.

Technology, Engineering & Supply Chain

• Establish contractor management processes and coordinate OEM technical support services.
• Support spare parts strategies, warehouse readiness, and inventory optimization initiatives.
• Support implementation and optimization of SAP PM and maintenance business processes.
• Manage maintenance support for autonomous haulage systems, fleet management systems, and digital technologies.
• Support engineering reviews to ensure maintainability, operability, accessibility, reliability, and safety requirements are incorporated into project designs.
• Maintains ongoing contacts with mine equipment vendors and suppliers in regard to equipment, material and parts specifications, and warranties associated with mine equipment.
• Assist with the implementation of ERP system and CMMS.

Safety & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, regulatory, and company requirements.
• Understand and comply with company, federal, and state safety and environmental regulations and maintain safe work procedures related to mine equipment maintenance activities.
• Complies with Company's safety awareness program, office and/or field safety policies.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other related mine equipment maintenance activities as required.
• Employees may perform other related duties as needed to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION:

• High School Diploma or equivalent

Experience

• Experience as a mobile mine maintenance technician.
• Supervisory experience.
• Copper mining experience (Preferred).
• Experience with maintenance readiness and operational readiness programs (Preferred).

Preferred Qualifications

• Understands and uses computer software and applications associated with mine equipment