Planner - Stationary Maintenance

Sibanye Stillwater•Big Timber, MT

12d•Onsite

About The Position

At Sibanye-Stillwater, the Planner - Stationary Maintenance develops resource-ready work plans and executable maintenance schedules for stationary mechanical assets. The Planner maintains separate technical ownership for each discipline while coordinating shared outages, resources, and work-management processes to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Five years of relevant stationary, fixed-plant, industrial mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, maintenance-planning, or closely related heavy-industrial experience.
Experience interpreting technical drawings, schematics, specifications, equipment manuals, and maintenance records.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage competing demands.
Ability to estimate labor, materials, duration, and cost with reasonable accuracy.
Ability to distinguish mechanical requirements and recognize multidisciplinary dependencies.
Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, schematics, specifications, manuals, and work orders.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Strong collaboration, coordination, and relationship-building skills across technical and operational groups.
Maintenance planning and scheduling knowledge, including scoping, estimating, backlog management, resource loading, shutdown coordination, and schedule compliance.
Knowledge of underground fixed-plant and stationary-maintenance practices.
Knowledge of fixed mechanical assets, including hoists, conveyors, crushers, pumps, ventilation, and dewatering systems.

Nice To Haves

Associate or bachelor's degree in maintenance technology, electrical technology, mechanical technology, engineering technology, asset management, business, or a related field.
At least one year of experience planning or scheduling maintenance work, including work scoping, labor and material estimating, backlog management, and work-order preparation.
Journeyman-level trade qualification or equivalent technical training in industrial electrical, instrumentation, millwright, mechanical, welding, or fixed-plant maintenance.

Responsibilities

Incorporate hazards, controls, permits, isolation requirements, task qualifications, environmental controls, and return-to-service requirements into planned work.
Participate in field walkdowns, inspections, audits, and safety meetings; verify compliance with MSHA, site standards, and stationary-maintenance requirements.
Plan preventive, predictive, corrective, and major-repair work for hoists, conveyors, crushers, feeders, pumps, dewatering and ventilation systems, fans, compressors, piping, valves, structures, hydraulic and lubrication systems, and other fixed mechanical assets.
Define work scope using field condition, equipment history, inspections, condition-monitoring results, OEM recommendations, and reliability findings.
Plan component replacement, alignment, welding, machining, rigging, lifting, lubrication, inspection, isolation, and mechanical commissioning requirements.
Validate mechanical parts, repairable spares, wear components, fabricated items, rigging equipment, and specialty tools before scheduling.
Maintain mechanical equipment history, failure codes, bills of materials, standard jobs, and repair records.
Develop long-range, monthly, weekly, and daily schedules aligned with approved priorities, preventive-maintenance needs, production requirements, equipment access, shutdown windows, and available resources.
Resource-load and sequence ready work; confirm labor, skills, materials, tools, test equipment, contractors, work areas, and technical support are available.
Facilitate planning and scheduling meetings and communicate priorities, constraints, outages, schedule changes, and maintenance impacts to Supervisors and affected stakeholders.
Partner with the responsible General Foreman to establish maintenance priorities, approve weekly and long-range schedules, and align planned work with operational objectives.
Escalate resource, access, outage, and operational constraints to the responsible General Foreman for resolution.
Ensure Environmental Excellence is practiced throughout area of responsibility by identifying issues and coaching peers to enhance practices.
Maintain standards and expectations for quality housekeeping, escalating non-conformance issues when necessary.