Strategic Stationary Maintenance Planner

Sibanye Stillwater; Big Timber (MT); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Sibanye-Stillwater is seeking a Planner - Stationary Maintenance to develop resource-ready work plans and detailed schedules for stationary mechanical assets at East Bould Mine, McLeod, MT.

The role requires coordinating outages, resources, and work-management processes to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. Strong planning, technical reading, and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience interpreting technical drawings, schematics, specifications, equipment manuals, and maintenance records.
• Five years of relevant stationary, fixed-plant, industrial mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, maintenance-planning, or closely related heavy-industrial experience.
• Associate or bachelor's degree in maintenance technology, electrical technology, mechanical technology, engineering technology, asset management, business, or a related field preferred.
• At least one year of experience planning or scheduling maintenance work, including work scoping, labor and material estimating, backlog management, and work-order preparation preferred.
• Journeyman-level trade qualification or equivalent technical training in industrial electrical, instrumentation, millwright, mechanical, welding, or fixed-plant maintenance preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops resource-ready work plans and executable maintenance schedules for stationary mechanical assets.
• Coordinate outages, resources, and work-management processes to support safe, reliable operations.
• Incorporate hazards, controls, permits, isolation requirements, task qualifications, environmental controls, and return-to-service requirements into planned work.
• Plan preventive, predictive, corrective, and major-repair work for fixed mechanical assets (hoists, conveyors, crushers, pumps, etc.).
• Define work scope using field condition, equipment history, inspections, and reliability findings.
• Plan component replacement, alignment, welding, machining, rigging, lubrication, isolation, and commissioning requirements.
• Maintain equipment history, bills of materials, and repair records.
• Develop long-range, monthly, weekly, and daily schedules aligned with priorities and production needs.
• Resource-load and sequence ready work; ensure availability of labor, materials, tools, and support.
• Facilitate planning meetings; communicate priorities and constraints to Supervisors and stakeholders.
• Partner with General Foreman to set maintenance priorities and align work with operational objectives.
• Escalate constraints to the General Foreman for resolution.
• Maintain Environmental Excellence standards and coaching of peers.
• Maintain standards for quality housekeeping and escalate non-conformance when necessary.

Skills

Analytical skills

Prioritization

Estimating labor

Reading drawings

Communication

Coordination

Maintenance planning

Outages coordination

Education

High school diploma

Technical drawings interpretation

Associate/Bachelor in related field (preferred)

Journeyman-level trade qualification (preferred)

Job description

Sibanye-Stillwater is seeking a Planner - Stationary Maintenance to develop resource-ready work plans and detailed schedules for stationary mechanical assets at East Bould Mine, McLeod, MT.

The role requires coordinating outages, resources, and work-management processes to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations. Strong planning, technical reading, and collaboration skills are essential.