Specialist Maintenance Planning - Fixed Plant

OceanaGold • Kershaw, SC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Processing Plant Maintenance Planner (Floater) is responsible for developing and maintaining detailed maintenance plans to ensure safe, efficient, and effective execution of proactive and corrective work. This role provides flexible planning support across the processing plant and temporarily supports the Water Treatment Plant until a dedicated planner is secured.
The planner integrates inputs from operations, reliability, and maintenance teams to create executable work packages, manage backlog, and support continuous improvement in asset performance. In addition to day-to-day planning, this role plays a key part in Asset Management Framework (AMF) initiatives, including SWI development, PM optimization, CMMS data integrity, and planning process standardization.
The planner ensures alignment with the company’s Work Management framework and supports planning governance through schedule readiness, material availability, and resource coordination. The role requires strong technical knowledge, planning discipline, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize plant availability and reliability.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of experience in maintenance planning within a heavy industrial or mining environment.
• Trade certification in mechanical, electrical, or instrumentation discipline preferred.
• Strong understanding of maintenance processes, reliability principles, and asset management.
• Proficiency with CMMS platforms (ProntoXi preferred). Experience with SAP, Maximo, or Oracle is also considered valuable.
• Experience with rotating equipment, pumps, valves, instrumentation, and processing systems.
• Ability to read technical drawings and develop accurate job scopes.
• Strong communication and coordination skills across multidisciplinary teams.
• High attention to detail and commitment to planning standards.
• Experience supporting shutdown or turnaround planning is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and drive planning outcomes.
• Commitment to safety, continuous improvement, and company values

Nice To Haves

• Trade certification in mechanical, electrical, or instrumentation discipline
• Experience with SAP, Maximo, or Oracle
• Experience supporting shutdown or turnaround planning

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed job plans and work packages for preventive, corrective, and statutory maintenance activities.
• Review and prioritize incoming work requests in alignment with asset criticality and production priorities.
• Maintain accurate backlog and ensure work orders are properly scoped, resourced, and scheduled.
• Coordinate with supply chain to ensure timely procurement of materials and services.
• Validate job plans with execution teams and incorporate feedback for continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with safety standards and include relevant permits and risk assessments in work packages.
• Support weekly scheduling meetings and provide input to the integrated maintenance schedule.
• Monitor planning KPIs such as schedule compliance, backlog age, and work order cycle time.
• Collaborate with reliability engineers to incorporate failure history and improvement actions into plans.
• Ensure alignment with the company’s Work Management framework and planning standards.
• Maintain CMMS data accuracy including task lists, BOMs, and equipment hierarchies.
• Support shutdown and turnaround planning with detailed scope development and resource forecasting.
• Facilitate planning readiness reviews and ensure work is schedule-ready before execution.
• Champion planning discipline and promote proactive maintenance culture across teams.
• Coordinate mechanical and electrical scopes for Processing Plant assets, ensuring integrated planning and execution.
• Lead AMF initiatives: SWI development and deployment, PM optimization, CMMS integration, and compliance tracking.
• Maintain strong field presence to validate job scopes, support execution teams, and reinforce planning standards.
• Act as a leader in the field, promoting safety, quality, and continuous improvement through visible engagement.
• Provide temporary planning support for Water Treatment Plant until a dedicated planner is onboarded.

Benefits

• Competitive salary + short-term and long-term bonus
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, vision and dental insurance, 401K, and more
• Long service recognition
• Living Our Values recognition program
• In-office snack shop
• Monthly paid training available and professional development
• Supportive work environment with a focus on safety and teamwork
• Access to OceanaGold Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

What This Job Offers

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