Maintenance planner

Maintenance Planner

• A company with a world-class reputation for safety and performance.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• A great opportunity to work for a global company

About the role

We are looking for a Maintenance Planner to join the Operations & Maintenance team at Resolution Copper. The primary purpose of this role is to identify, plan, schedule, and prepare work activities for maintenance teams at Resolution.

The role will play an integral part in both the development and the day-to-day activities of planning for both fixed and mobile assets.

Establish and execute weekly maintenance planning activities for surface and / or underground maintenance teams to ensure quality and consistency of maintenance work.

Reporting to the Sr. Advisor Planning & Reliability, your duties will include :

• Prioritize and plan work activities in alignment with maintenance, operations, and project teams’ strategic goals and objectives.
• Lead weekly planning meetings to include reviewing previous, current, and future week’s work.
• Publish a weekly schedule for maintenance teams that is achievable and accounts for the allotted workforce capacity.
• Provide strong and effective leadership to ensure work management standards are achieved and procedures followed.
• Assist in developing a safety culture by ensuring that all work complies with existing safety legislation and follows applicable HSE standards, processes, and procedures.
• Source and order materials & tooling on work orders and track / follow-up on materials with suppliers for staging and job scheduling.
• Partner with suppliers and conduct regular check-ins to communicate any issues or opportunities to improve the purchasing process.
• Continuously develop and improve the overall maintenance and reliability programs including task lists, maintenance plans, documentation, bill of materials, etc.
• Participate in asset criticality and risk assessments to help develop maintenance tactics, and schedule work orders from these tactics to ensure appropriate risk controls are followed.
• Perform quality safety interactions and critical control verifications in the field
• Review work requests and plan work with the Maintenance Supervisors.
• Provide SAP guidance and instruction to maintainers and relevant system users throughout the plant.
• Ensure applicable maintenance activities are documented and assist with internal and external audits and inspections.
• Work cooperatively with peers to achieve acceptable and sustainable equipment performance and unit cost
• Coordinate capital projects as needed
• Fit and de-fit rotatable equipment in SAP as needed
• Continuously identify and implement opportunities to improve the planning function
• Initiate, develop, and maintain effective and sustainable relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Work with contractors to effectively ensure compliance with all procedures and processes
• Take part in department budget reviews to provide planning insight and ensure the department is on track and exceptions are identified and adjusted for.

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have :

• University degree or applicable tradesperson with mining or fixed plant maintenance experience
• Minimum 5 years of industrial maintenance experience
• SAP experience
• Proficient with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
• Previous maintenance planning and scheduling experience is a plus
• Electrical knowledge and / or warehousing background is preferred
• Ability to read and understand technical prints, drawings, equipment manuals, and standards
• Exceptional organizational habits
• Supervisory experience is a plus
• Detail oriented
• Other Qualifications : Leadership, project experience, good verbal and written communication, internal and external customer focus, adaptability, accountability, computer literacy, problem-solving, motivating others, innovation management, decision making, process management, collaborative and team-oriented management style.

What we offer

We are committed to providing our employees with what they deserve. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide :

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• A highly sought-after 4 10 work schedule
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Generous 401(k) Company match program (company match dollar per dollar up to 6% of your base pay) up to defined limits
• An additional 6% of eligible pay Company contribution to save for your retirement needs
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto stock in the form of ADRs and includes matching Company shares.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life (vacation, short-term sick leave, paid holidays, paid bereavement leave).
• Regional and national discounts program for a multitude of leisure purposes and products
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards.

But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working

Once in operation, Resolution Copper has the potential to supply nearly 25% of US copper demand and create several thousand direct and indirect jobs in the Pioneer Mining District of Arizona, with an economic value estimated at several billion dollars over the mine life.

The project will rely on a block caving technique to extract the deposit that lies more than 2,000 meters below the surface.

This method uses gravity to remove the ore and is the most viable way to recover the resource.

In anticipation of the Final EIS in 2020, Resolution Copper continues permitting and community engagement activities, reclamation of the historic Magma Mine site, shaft, and underground development studies, and advancing data collection to further orebody knowledge.

Last updated : 2024-03-22