Underground Maintenance Planner

Company Description

OceanaGold is a multinational gold producer committed to the highest standards of technical, environmental, and social performance. For more than 31 years, we have been contributing to excellence in our industry by delivering sustainable environmental and social outcomes for our communities, and strong returns for our shareholders.

Our global exploration, development, and operating experience has created a significant pipeline of organic growth opportunities and a portfolio of established operating assets including the Didipio Mine in the Philippines; Macraes and Waihi operations in New Zealand; and the Haile Gold Mine in the United States of America. The gold, copper, and silver we produce are essential to the renewable energy and transport sectors, life-saving medical devices and technology that connects communities around the world. They also contribute to sustainable economic growth in the regions where we operate and direct employment for more than 2,500 people.

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OGC VALUES: CARE | RESPECT | INTEGRITY | PERFORMANCE | TEAMWORK

OceanaGold is committed to providing equal employment opportunities.

If you share the same values and have what we are looking for, please apply online now via our careers website: https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/OceanaGold

Job Description

Job Description

• Responsible in planning and scheduling for the effective use of maintenance personnel and resources to achieve reliability and availability of all underground mobile and fixed plant assets.
• Responsible for identifying and managing mechanical assets of the department and associated systems.
• Ensures maintenance plans and activities are executed in a safe and efficient manner
• Planning and scheduling of all maintenance work through computerized maintenance management system-Pronto Xi, to ensure resources are prioritized in accordance with the maintenance strategy.
• Ensure planned routine maintenance, non-routine maintenance, breakdowns, approved modifications are scheduled to be undertaken with minimum disruption to the mining operation.
• Ensure that parts, equipment, materials, and tooling are allocated to the correct job before work is placed on the weekly work schedule.
• Prepare and issue weekly maintenance schedule to execution team, contractors and mining department, monitors compliance to weekly schedules and general maintenance effectiveness.
• Liaise closely with the Supply Department to ensure expediting of outstanding orders, a continuity of supply of all replacement parts and spares levelling strategies.
• Support day to day functions of the Underground Maintenance department as required by the UG Maintenance Superintendent
• Liaise with Maintenance Supervisor/Superintendent to ensure timely reconciliation of work order deficiencies to avoid disruption to the schedule.
• Track equipment availability and regularly report on its performance. Analyses downtime and focus on critical downtime causes.
• Liaise closely with reliability engineers which includes reliability improvements, developing engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant equipment operations.
• Participate in the development of organizational capability of the Maintenance, Planning and Reliability Group. Participate in training and developing maintenance staff in maintenance roles.
• Monitors work order status and updating of backlog management.
• Review service sheets and analyze data to determine effectiveness, quality of inspection and appropriate inspection intervals in coordination to Reliability Engineers.
• Provides technical assistance to maintenance personnel as required.
• Oversees all related Mechanical/Electrical activities to include quality assurance and safety.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Demonstrates a high level of technical skill or knowledge in Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.
• Preferred Mechanical Engineer or Trade qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years maintenance planner role in maintaining underground equipment (e.g. mobile equipment, pumps, ventilation fans, electric motors, electrical starters, etc.) or related industry experience.
• Working knowledge in MS Office applications and CMMS Pronto