Thiess is looking for a Maintenance Planner to support mining operations by planning and scheduling short- to medium-term maintenance for mobile and/or fixed plant equipment, infrastructure, and facilities. The role focuses on improving equipment availability, reducing unplanned downtime, and ensuring maintenance activities are completed safely, efficiently, and within budget.
Requirements
- Planning and scheduling short- to medium-term maintenance for mobile and/or fixed plant equipment, infrastructure, and facilities
- Improving equipment availability, reducing unplanned downtime, and ensuring maintenance activities are completed safely, efficiently, and within budget
- Maintaining currency and accuracy of equipment maintenance history, work orders, job records database, and technical information on processes, plant, and equipment
- Identifying potential work using an effective condition monitoring program and financial package-based work programs and providing guidance and support to project teams
- Developing weekly agreed maintenance plans using equipment strategies to facilitate maximum production and minimize downtime and costs to meet plant availability and reliability targets
- Aligning other maintenance activities such as defects and breakdown repairs with periodic maintenance and providing updates on a weekly basis
- Developing a recommended and optimized bill of materials for the various standard jobs employed under the maintenance strategy
- Ensuring that work planned is completed within the allowed budget and resources by cost-effective use of resources to maintain and service infrastructure
- Assisting with the procurement and freight of parts and services and ensuring full reliability of parts and equipment is retained while stored, only using approved suppliers and hire equipment
- Maintaining accurate and effective costing reporting as well as support documentation and ensuring all completed work orders are closed out
- Effectively using the company’s financial package to produce, review, and maintain equipment lists and contracts and raising work orders for all maintenance activities
- Coordinating warranty claims and ensuring warranty forms are lodged with OEMs for components and repairs using approved warranty processes and site documentation
- Identifying project-based opportunities to improve equipment reliability and reduce maintenance costs to increase effectiveness and efficiency by eliminating repetitive, costly, or low-value work
- Utilizing predictive maintenance processes to raise re-work requests and organizing any additional maintenance requirements
- Ensuring all materials, parts, personnel, tools, permits, and equipment is available for execution when required by the plan
- Reviewing and auditing mechanical repairs and services to ensure compliance with site maintenance schemes
- Reviewing and reporting on planning and scheduling, equipment reliability, and maintenance department performance
- Managing tire life cycle by ensuring tires are maintained and repaired in accordance with company policy and best practices as per the tire management system
- Assisting in the implementation and compliance of HSE plans to ensure safe and sustainable mobile plant and ancillary equipment
- Providing expert advice in all incident investigations to ensure the root causes are identified and that all the required documentation is reported. If applicable, playing an active role in implementing corrective actions in consultation with relevant parties
- Constantly looking to identify hazards and risks through regular inspections, audits, and behavioral observations as per HSE targets and taking corrective actions where required
- Liaising with all internal stakeholders to enhance coordination between the maintenance department, mine leadership, and client groups and minimizing interruptions to operations by maintaining strong working relationships with relevant personnel
- Communicating detailed maintenance plans for scheduled maintenance to maintenance department, mine leadership, and client groups on a weekly basis
- Coordinating with the offsite maintenance planners to ensure the best business outcomes are achieved
- Promoting prosperous healthy client relationships to network and identify new business opportunities
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and participation in 401k plan with company matching
- Medical benefits include private health insurance with premium coverage for the employees and competitively subsidized private health insurance for immediate family
- Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401K retirement savings benefit with employer matching contributions
- Development: Access to ongoing learning, development, and career advancement opportunities within Thiess’ global network
- PTO, Paid Holidays
