Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator

Northern Star Pogo • Delta Junction, AK

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator reports to the Maintenance Superintendent and leads the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, and project functions to improve plant availability, asset reliability, work management discipline, project completion, and maintenance execution readiness across the Pogo processing plant. The position establishes and maintains a disciplined maintenance planning and scheduling cycle, improves preventative maintenance compliance, controls backlog, improves work order quality, strengthens reliability routines, and turns reliability actions into practical, executable work.

The role provides leadership to planners, reliability engineers, and support roles so maintenance work is identified, scoped, planned, scheduled, executed, and closed out to a high standard. Success is measured by improved maintenance discipline and KPIs, effective weekly planning and reliability routines, better shutdown planning, reduced reactive work, improved critical asset performance, and practical elimination of repeat or high-impact failures. The role requires field engagement, coaching, accountability, and close integration with Maintenance, Operations, Warehouse / Supply, contractors, and other site functions.

The position is based at a remote mining site and follows a 15-days-on, 13-days-off rotating schedule of days and nights, with shifts of up to 12 hours or more. Employees stay at the company-provided camp during their work rotation. The work environment may include extreme and changing weather, dust, mud, varying noise and light conditions, and confined work areas. Camp facilities include dining service, games room, exercise and weight room, sauna, and accommodation rooms. The company provides bus service to and from Fairbanks, Delta Junction, and Tok, Alaska.

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.
• Strong communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
• Practical, field-focused leadership style and ability to build trust quickly.
• Ability to work with imperfect data while improving discipline, systems, and reporting quality.
• Ability to work a 15-days-on, 13-days-off rotating schedule of days and nights, with shifts of up to 12 hours or more, at a remote campsite.
• Employees must stay on site at the company-provided camp during the work rotation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Pronto, SAP, AMT, or a similar CMMS; Pronto experience is highly regarded.
• Remote mining experience.
• Gold processing experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling, and reliability function.
• Exercise capital project delegation and accountability for project scope and execution.
• 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 in work management and reliability routines.
• Review, cleanse, and control maintenance backlog, including aged, duplicate, obsolete, and poorly scoped work orders.
• Improve preventative maintenance 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 planning and maintain cadence accountability.
• Plan major work, including shutdown planning quality, materials readiness, contractor readiness, and post-shutdown close-out.
• Support critical spares reviews and improve bills of materials.
• Coach planners, reliability engineers, supervisors, and maintenance leaders in work management discipline.
• Work closely with Maintenance, Operations, Warehouse / Supply, contractors, and other site functions.

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 invests in its people.
• Company-provided camp accommodation and facilities, including dining service, games room, exercise and weight room, and sauna.
• Company-provided bus service to and from Fairbanks, Delta Junction, and Tok, Alaska.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed