Asset Planner

JOB DESCRIPTION

In This Role You Will:

Safety and Health

• Proactively demonstrate Newmont’s core values in all aspects of work 
• Actively support Newmont’s safety standards and improvement initiatives

Manages New Work Requests

• Manage new and backlog work notifications including checking for duplicates, ensuring enough information is included to plan the work leveraging Task Lists to ensure consistency in job planning
• Obtain approvals for work notifications, verifies priority levels and due dates before converting them to work orders

Plans and Schedules Work Orders (WOs)

• Prepare short-, medium- and long-term maintenance plans (to be executed in the 2+ week range) based on site priority, focused on reducing down-time and maintenance costs.
• Plan use of resources (parts and materials, equipment, tools, and labor) for execution of maintenance plans including timely scheduling of material orders.
• Coordinate with on-site Work Management Coordinators to transition draft schedules with time, resource, and material allocations to sites.
• Coordinate maintenance plans with Supply Chain team in order to ensure timely ordering and allocation of parts and materials.

Monitors Adherence to Plan and Identifies Improvement Areas

• Ensure and monitor the correct use of the ERP system, including ensuring component changeouts are appropriately recorded.
• Verify that work orders are closed with required fields populated.
• Monitor planning and scheduling KPIs and targets including deviations from maintenance plan and communicates insights to Regional Planning leads.
• Assist in identifying need for Reliability Engineers to review equipment strategies or Life Cycle Cost Models.
• Develop and distributes compliance to schedule, work process metrics and backlog reports to site and central AM stakeholders.
• Continuously identify and drive opportunities to improve planning activities and implement best practice updates and changes.

Your Training, Skills & Experience Checklist:

Degree/Higher National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical).

• Certificate in Asset Management (may be an advantage)

Experience:

• 3-5 years of experience in a heavy industry or asset management role
• Experience with manual and computerized maintenance planning systems

Additional Knowledge:

• Thorough knowledge of maintenance principles and industry standards
• Thorough knowledge of the work management process
• Thorough knowledge of planning and scheduling maintenance activities
• Strong knowledge of the operation of the CMMS (SAP).
• General knowledge of performance measures and their interpretation
• General knowledge of defect elimination methodologies and their interpretation.
• General knowledge of asset life cycle management and asset management principles and best practice.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to effectively prioritize jobs in order of importance 
• Demonstrated strong inter-personal relationship skills and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate both in person and virtually 
• Ability to quickly assess information to diagnose problems and opportunities, with a track record of strong professional judgement and critical thinking
• Ability to engage with and influence stakeholders across Newmont including central Asset Management, operations, supply chain, and external partners 
• Ability to work collaboratively in a high performing, multi-disciplined, diverse team

Technical Skills:

• Strong project management skills. 
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. 
• Strong computer literacy skills - MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and MS Project. 
• Sound analytical and problem-solving skills
• Sound information monitoring and management skills. 
• Sound planning, organizing and prioritizing skills. 
• Ability to interpret mechanical and electrical engineering drawings. 
• Ability to interpret engineering schematics / blueprints. 
• Ability to effectively prioritize jobs in order of importance

Behavioural Attributes:

• Ability to effectively prioritize jobs in order of importance 
• Demonstrated strong inter-personal relationship skills and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate both in person and virtually 
• Ability to quickly assess information to diagnose problems and opportunities, with a track record of strong professional judgement and critical thinking
• Ability to engage with and influence stakeholders across Newmont including central Asset Management, operations, supply chain, and external partners 
• Ability to work collaboratively in a high performing, multidisciplined, diverse team