Shift Operations Planner — Pellet Plant Reliability & Scheduling

Tilden Mining Company; Ishpeming Township (MI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Education assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in Ishpeming, MI is seeking an Operations Planner to support safe, reliable pellet plant performance by developing and coordinating daily and weekly operating plans.

This role aligns operations, maintenance, and training activities, ensures disciplined workorder execution, and drives shifttoshift continuity. This position emphasizes safety, environmental standards, and continuous improvement while coordinating with engineering to match equipment capabilities and schedules.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent experience.
• 3-5 years industrial/mining/steel/process industry experience.
• Microsoft Office and CMMS experience (Ellipse preferred).
• Strong communication, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in an industrial plant environment.
• Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce safety and environmental standards.
• Develop and communicate daily and shift operating plans.
• Coordinate operational and maintenance schedules.
• Manage work orders in Ellipse and monitor PM compliance.
• Document shift performance and support deviation correction.
• Participate in reliability and process improvement initiatives.
• Support training alignment and crossshift consistency.
• Coordinate with engineering to align operational plans with equipment capabilities.
• Monitor delays, break-ins, and interruptions to improve operational scheduling.
• Prepare weekly operational forecasts and resource plans.
• Collaborate with supervisors to minimize variation between shifts.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and quality procedures.
• Communicate with upstream and downstream areas to coordinate work and deliveries.
• Evaluate deviations from plans and implement corrective actions.
• Identify improvement opportunities using work-order and process data.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Microsoft Office

CMMS (Ellipse)

Education

Associate degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Ellipse CMMS

Job description

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in Ishpeming, MI is seeking an Operations Planner to support safe, reliable pellet plant performance by developing and coordinating daily and weekly operating plans.

This role aligns operations, maintenance, and training activities, ensures disciplined workorder execution, and drives shifttoshift continuity. This position emphasizes safety, environmental standards, and continuous improvement while coordinating with engineering to match equipment capabilities and schedules.