Central Maintenance Planner

Silver Lake Resources•White River, SD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Central Maintenance Planner is responsible for ensuring effective planning to optimize plant and equipment availability. This role involves managing maintenance strategies, work practices, critical spares, and business continuity. The planner will maintain the accuracy and functionality of the maintenance database, report job progress and potential delays to the Maintenance Superintendent, and identify and resolve challenges that could cause production delays. They will also facilitate maintenance projects, work collaboratively with teams, and ensure accurate communication during shift changes. Additionally, the planner will develop and implement short, medium, and long-term maintenance plans and shutdown schedules, coordinate equipment repairs with the Mill Foreman, raise purchase and work orders, manage critical spares, and ensure all planned maintenance is recorded and closed out correctly in the maintenance management system.

Requirements

Effective planning skills to optimize plant and equipment availability.
Ability to source information for maintenance planning and project management.
Proactive approach to improving maintenance strategies, work practices, critical spares, and business continuity.
Proficiency in maintaining the accuracy and functionality of a maintenance database.
Strong communication skills to update the Maintenance Superintendent on job progress and delays.
Ability to identify and report production-delaying challenges and participate in problem-solving.
Experience in facilitating maintenance projects.
Collaborative work style to achieve organizational goals.
Ability to leverage team talent and knowledge for problem resolution.
Effective communication skills for shift changes and data reporting.
Active participation in shift change meetings with accurate handover notes.
Experience with change management processes.
Ability to champion training and mentoring in the use of the maintenance database.
Strong prioritization and task completion skills within required timeframes.
Experience in developing and implementing short, medium, and long-term maintenance plans and shutdown schedules.
Ability to ensure planning outputs are cohesive, achievable, resourced, and understood.
Experience liaising with Mill Foreman to coordinate equipment repairs and planned shutdowns.
Proficiency in raising purchase and work orders.
Experience in managing critical spares lists and stock holdings.
Familiarity with recording and closing out planned maintenance and work orders in a maintenance management system.
Punctuality for work and meetings.

Nice To Haves

Leadership skills to assist the Maintenance Superintendent and deputize in their absence.
Coaching, mentoring, and performance monitoring abilities for team members.

Responsibilities

Ensure safe work systems/procedures are always practised and adhered to.
Maintain exemplary standard of housekeeping, safe work, incident/accident reporting & active involvement in safety initiatives.
Understand and familiarise oneself with site Emergency evacuation procedures.
Abide by and proactively comply with Company policies, procedures, guidelines and systems, as well as all relevant legislation.
Display conduct which is aligned with company Core Values, Policies and Procedures.
Lead by example and actively participate to achieve department and company goals and objectives.
Assist the Maintenance Superintendent in directing the day to day operations of the maintenance team.
Deputize for the Maintenance Superintendent in their absence.
Coach, mentor, assess and monitor the work performance of the Maintenance team members and provide feedback.
Provide effective planning that optimises plant and equipment availability at all times.
Source information required to deliver maintenance planning and project management.
Proactively and continuously improve maintenance strategies, work practices and critical spares and business continuity.
Ensure continuity, accuracy and functionality of the maintenance database and all data is adequately maintained.
Update the Maintenance Superintendent of all job progress and any anticipated delays.
Identify and report all challenges or issues that may cause production delays and participate in problem solving strategies.
Facilitate maintenance projects as required.
Work collaboratively with others to achieve organizational goals.
Leverage off and use the talent and knowledge within the team to resolve problems.
Communicate relevant information and data to other personnel through formalised shift changes and use data reporting systems.
Attend and actively participate in shift change meetings and provide accurate handover notes/information.
Participate in and utilise the change management process for identified problems and opportunities.
Champion the training and mentoring in the use of the maintenance database.
Prioritise and complete tasks accurately as to specifications as assigned and within required timeframes.
Develop and implement robust short, medium and long term maintenance plans and shutdown schedules.
Ensure all planning outputs are cohesive, achievable, resourced and easily understood by all parties.
Liaise with the Mill Foreman to coordinate equipment repairs and planned shutdowns.
Raise purchase and work orders as necessary.
Ensure the critical spares list is updated. New equipment spares are sourced, ANSI store stock items and monitor and review stock holdings as required.
Ensure all planned maintenance and work orders are recorded and closed out correctly within the required timeframe in the maintenance management system.
Be punctual to work and all required site meetings.
Undertake other duties as lawfully instructed.