Maintenance Planner (Zinc Concentrator)

Role Purpose

The Maintenance Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling and coordinating maintenance activities to ensure safe, reliable and cost-effective operation of the zinc concentrator.

The role focuses on high-quality work preparation, structured work management, backlog control, resource optimisation and schedule compliance to support production targets and equipment reliability. The Planner plays a critical role in ensuring all work is fully prepared and ready for efficient execution in line with safety and engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling

• Develop detailed weekly and monthly maintenance plans aligned with production requirements.
• Convert work requests into fully scoped and planned work orders.
• Prepare complete work packs including job plans, procedures, materials, tools, drawings and safety controls.
• Ensure all work is planned ready prior to scheduling and execution.
• Balance planned work, breakdowns and shutdown activities to optimise plant availability.
• Coordinate closely with operations to align maintenance windows and priorities.

CMMS & Work Management

• Plan, manage and update all work orders within the CMMS system.
• Maintain accurate asset records, task lists and equipment history.
• Control and prioritise the maintenance backlog based on risk, criticality and operational impact.
• Ensure high-quality data capture, feedback and closure of work orders.
• Support structured work management processes and discipline across the plant.

Resource & Materials Coordination

• Plan manpower, tooling, spares and contractor requirements for all scheduled work.
• Coordinate with supply chain to ensure materials are available ahead of execution.
• Identify long-lead items and implement forward planning to prevent delays.
• Ensure correct spares are reserved, kitted and staged for execution.
• Drive efficient and cost-effective use of resources and materials.

Safety, Health & Compliance

• Integrate MHSA requirements into all maintenance planning activities.
• Ensure work packs include risk assessments, LOTO requirements and permit-to-work controls.
• Support legal compliance through accurate and auditable maintenance documentation.
• Assist with safety, engineering and statutory audits.

Shutdowns & Major Maintenance

• Support planning and coordination of shutdowns and major maintenance campaigns.
• Develop shutdown scopes, schedules, resource plans and material forecasts.
• Track shutdown readiness including materials, labour, tools and permits.
• Participate in shutdown execution reviews and continuous improvement.
• Capture lessons learned to improve future shutdown performance.

Performance Reporting & Control

• Track planned vs actual work execution and schedule compliance.
• Monitor backlog size, health and planning quality.
• Prepare planning performance reports and KPI dashboards.
• Identify opportunities to reduce downtime and improve maintenance efficiency.

Continuous Improvement & Reliability Support

• Support preventative and predictive maintenance strategies.
• Assist reliability teams in converting strategies into executable job plans.
• Standardise job plans, task lists and planning practices.
• Promote planning discipline and best-practice work management processes.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning effectiveness and execution readiness.

Operational Support

• Support daily coordination between operations, maintenance and planning teams.
• Assist in prioritisation of urgent and breakdown work.
• Participate in daily and weekly planning meetings.

Qualifications & Experience

• Trade qualification (Mechanical or Electrical) or Diploma in Engineering / Maintenance Management.
• 3–5 years' experience in maintenance planning within mining or heavy industrial operations.
• Strong working knowledge of CMMS systems (e.g. SAP, Pronto, OnKey or similar).
• Good understanding of plant equipment and maintenance workflows.

Desirable

• Experience in zinc or base-metal concentrators.
• Exposure to mineral processing plants.
• Training in reliability engineering or asset management principles.
• Exposure to shutdown planning and execution.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong planning, scheduling and organisational capability
• High attention to detail and data discipline
• Good understanding of maintenance and engineering principles
• Ability to work under pressure in a production-driven environment
• Strong coordination and communication skills across teams
• Strong safety-focused mindset

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Schedule compliance
• Planning quality (ready-to-execute work orders)
• Backlog size and health
• Maintenance efficiency and downtime reduction
• Materials availability for planned work
• Safety compliance in planned work
• Continuous improvement in work management practices