Maintenance Planner

POSITION SUMMARY:

Under general supervision, this position will plan, schedule, and coordinate daily maintenance activities on milling, processing, and mine equipment with maintenance supervision in conformance with company policies and procedures and established equipment maintenance standards. Distributes work orders and scheduling of the fixed, mobile, and electrical personnel. Provides cost control monitoring and equipment specification conformity for maintenance activities. Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures regarding mine, plant or mill equipment and machinery lubrication, repair, and overhaul practices. Maintains records and time reports on equipment maintenance.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Distributes work orders and assists maintenance supervision with job coordination.
• Provides cost control monitoring and equipment specification conformity for maintenance activities.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures regarding mine equipment and machinery lubrication, repair, and overhaul practices.
• Maintains ongoing contacts with mine equipment vendors and suppliers regarding equipment, material and parts specifications, and warranties associated with equipment.
• Understands and complies with company, federal, and state safety and environmental regulations and maintains safe work procedures related to mine equipment maintenance activities.
• Confers with mine supervision to implement equipment maintenance activities.
• Monitors mine equipment maintenance activities to assure work is progressing according to established procedures.
• 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.
• Understands and uses computer software and applications associated with mine equipment maintenance assignments.
• Uses CMMS to develop a daily work schedule to secure adequate resources to complete preventative, predictive, and planned maintenance. Audit assignments and resources to ensure repair schedules and performance expectations. This includes maintenance and operations staff, materials, documents, work orders, change orders, and necessary approvals to perform work as planned.
• Conforms to company core values.
• Acts with integrity in all elements of responsibility.
• Expresses ideas clearly and listens to the ideas of others.
• Supports alignment of customer and company objectives.
• Prepare and maintain a weekly maintenance schedule.

• Advise when a scheduled maintenance downtime is scheduled, communicate, and coordinate new plan.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience

• · 3-5 years maintenance experience required.
• Experience with MaintainX – CMMS software preferred.
• Proven experience in managing multiple priorities.

• Demonstrated history of safety leadership.

• HS Diploma or equivalent
• Technical/trade school background strongly preferred.
• Ability to adapt information and communication style to the audience.
• Skilled at promoting teamwork to establish consensus among team and stakeholders.
• Capable of identifying key issues and patterns in moderately complex situations and spotting new, less obvious solutions.
• Must be an accurate and detail-oriented team player.
• General understanding of maintenance procedures, techniques and systems.
• Verifiable computer skills and experience with inventory management preferred.
• Familiar with mining methodology and practices.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / CONDITIONS / PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

These are the essential duties and are illustrative of those job tasks, which are fundamental.

Employees may be required to perform additional related duties as may be assigned by management. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work will take place in mining and production environments.
• Prolonged sitting, standing, climbing, pulling, and lifting of heavy objects.
• Must be able to lift, pull and push at least 50lbs.
• Will work on very uneven surfaces which will have rock and other debris in the area.
• Must be able to wear required PPE to include Steele toed boots, safety glasses and hard hat always.
• Continuous mental and visual attention making set-ups and operating machines, adjusting, checking work, diagnosing breakdowns.