Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator
About The Position
Northern Star Resources Limited is seeking a Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator to lead the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, and project functions at the Pogo processing plant. The primary goal is to enhance plant availability, asset reliability, work management discipline, project completion, and maintenance execution readiness. This role involves establishing and maintaining a disciplined maintenance planning and scheduling cycle, improving preventative maintenance compliance, controlling backlog, enhancing work order quality, strengthening reliability routines, and ensuring reliability actions are translated into executable work. The position requires leadership of planners, reliability engineers, and support staff to ensure high standards in maintenance work from identification to close-out. Success will be measured by improvements in maintenance discipline, reliable KPIs, effective planning and reliability routines, better shutdown planning, reduced reactive work, improved critical asset performance, and practical defect elimination of recurring or high-impact failures. The role demands strong field engagement, active coaching, accountability, and close integration with Maintenance, Operations, Warehouse/Supply, Contractors, and other site functions.
Requirements
- Significant maintenance planning and reliability leadership experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry or fixed plant operations.
- Strong understanding of gold processing or similar mineral processing plants.
- Demonstrated experience improving maintenance work management in a reactive or underperforming environment.
- Experience leading planners, schedulers, reliability engineers or maintenance improvement teams.
- Practical knowledge of preventative maintenance, backlog management, weekly scheduling, shutdown planning, defect elimination, root cause analysis, maintenance KPIs and CMMS discipline.
- Experience with Pronto, SAP, AMT or similar CMMS. Pronto experience is highly regarded.
- Strong communication, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
- Practical, field-focused leadership style with the ability to build trust quickly.
- Ability to work with imperfect data while improving discipline, systems and reporting quality.
- Remote mining experience is desirable.
- Gold processing experience is desirable.
Nice To Haves
- Pronto experience is highly regarded.
- Remote mining experience is desirable.
- Gold processing experience is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling and reliability function.
- Capital Project delegation, project scope & execution accountability.
- Establish and maintain a disciplined weekly planning and scheduling cycle.
- Improve work identification, scoping, planning, scheduling, execution and close-out.
- Embed a plan-do-check-act approach across work management and reliability routines.
- Review, cleanse and control maintenance backlog, including aged, duplicate, obsolete and poorly scoped work orders.
- Improve PM compliance, particularly for critical assets and statutory maintenance.
- Review PM strategies and recommend improvements to task quality, frequency and execution discipline.
- Develop and maintain a practical maintenance KPI dashboard.
- Monitor and report planned work ratio, reactive work, schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog health, work order quality and reliability performance.
- Lead bad actor reviews and defect elimination for repeat failures and high-impact equipment.
- Ensure reliability actions are practical, prioritised, assigned, resourced and closed out.
- Lead shutdown including Cadence accountability. Major work planning, including shutdown planning quality, materials readiness, contractor readiness and post-shutdown close-out.
- Support critical spares reviews and improvement of bills of materials.
- Coach planners, reliability engineers, supervisors and maintenance leaders in work management discipline.
Benefits
- Permanent position and extended mine-life offering job security.
- Excellent remuneration package with bonuses, insurances, 401k and paid leave.
- Ongoing development opportunities and growth within a company that continuously invest in their people.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
