Planner, Electrical Instrumentation

Hecla Mining Company • Juneau, AK

45d • Onsite

About The Position

As our Electrical Instrumentation Planner, you will play a crucial role in coordinating all electrical tasks, including preventative maintenance planning, job staging, and performance planning in an underground hard rock mining operation to keep our production going and our profitability up. Every day you will work at a mine on a remote island about 18 miles outside of Juneau, Alaska. You'll start every day organizing, scheduling, and prioritizing work activities to promote a safe, healthy, and accident-free work environment. You will be called upon to work cooperatively with others as part of a team, and encourage collaboration, trust and openness among employees. Your primary responsibility will be to support the Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) Department, while also coordinating closely with the Underground Electrical and Powerhouse departments. We're on a remote island, you must know how to work independently, identify, and resolve problems in a timely manner. The Electrical Instrumentation Planner is a key person for coordination of all electrical tasks, preventative maintenance planning, job staging, and performance planning with responsibility for the E&I Department and coordination with the Underground Electrical and Powerhouse departments.

Requirements

• 10 years in the electrical field as a Journeyman with minimum 5 years in lead and planning positions.
• Electrical Journeyman License with experience in project lead and job planning in both the commercial and industrial areas of the trade.
• Interdepartmental coordination and cooperation must be displayed in prior work habits.
• Pass a pre-employment physical and drug screen.
• Pass a position-specific physical demands assessment.
• Must be able to obtain ATF Employee Possessor clearance

Nice To Haves

• Related vocational training from an accredited institution.
• Instrumentation setup, calibration and repair, electrical installation, repair and AutoCAD. State of Alaska Journeyman Certificate preferred
• Ellipse training in creation/maintenance of work orders, planning functions, equipment registers, and scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Writing and assigning all plans with safety as the first priority.
• Safety instructions on work orders to be assessed and assigned to work orders with conscious thought.
• Required to work in all areas of the Mine, Mill, and Surface operations
• Ellipse training and knowledge of the planners function in Ellipse
• Parts purchasing for work orders and in-house stock. Regular monitoring of all electrical storage areas to maintain required shelf stock.
• Work Order and Project planning coordinating directly with supervisors and Electrical Administrator. Maintain prioritization and closing of work orders.
• Work Order and Parts staging.
• Job descriptions to be written with details and not generalized comments.
• Allow employees to work instead of spend time figuring out what is needed.
• Create and Update equipment IDs with accompanying data entries to Ellipse.
• Create and maintain Standard Jobs in Ellipse with supervisor, operations, and instrumentation assistance on developing required steps.
• Coalition of work orders for a monthly report of Powerhouse, PC Group, UE, and E&I for evaluation of departments and usage of time.
• Critical testing planning and resulting report storage for MSHA and FM Global examination.
• Planning and maintenance of all Annual Ground Check records as per MSHA regulations.
• Maintain medium voltage breaker maintenance schedule.
• Monitoring of PIR index, Jumper Log, and OneSCADA corrections Log.
• Take Lead in weekly planning meeting in conjunction with mechanical planner.
• Presence on island at week before and after down day is required to insure smooth planning and document completion.
• Intimate knowledge of Down Day requirements and procedures is required.

Benefits

• Hecla Greens Creek offers competitive pay based on experience and an excellent low-cost benefits package for medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance as well as other coverages such as disability coverage and life insurance.
• Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with company match.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Primary Metal Manufacturing
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees