Asset Planner

The Asset Management function is responsible for creating and implementing effective global asset strategies, delivering efficient asset planning and strategic insights to drive exceptional global asset performance across Newmont’s portfolio. It aims to ensure that Newmont’s asset management processes and capabilities are a source of sustainable and considerable competitive advantage for Newmont. This is achieved by focusing on business process standardization, proactive collaboration, competency and capability development, maintenance and reliability practices, relevant global productivity metrics and targeted value-adding asset lifecycle cost improvements. The AM function is focused on delivering value aligned with our philosophy of continuous improvement and rapid replication.
The Asset Planning function is responsible for the delivery of effective maintenance plans and schedules designed to maximize the efficiency of site maintenance teams and drive improved equipment performance. The Asset Planner will be responsible for preparing short, medium or long term maintenance plans and schedules and liaising with the site-based Work Management Coordinators to ensure timely arrival of parts and execution of work orders.
Key outcomes include:
• Preparation of long and short-term plans and schedules to optimize costs, improve efficiency and drive equipment reliability and availability for a mine or process department
• Clear communication with work management coordinators to support the execution of the plan

Safety and Health

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

Manages New Work Requests

• Manages 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
• Obtains approvals for work notifications, verifies priority levels and due dates before converting them to work orders

Plans and Schedules Work Orders (WOs)

• Prepares 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
• Plans use of resources (parts and materials, equipment, tools, and labor) for execution of maintenance plans including timely scheduling of material orders
• Coordinates with on-site Work Management Coordinators to transition draft schedules with time, resource, and material allocations to sites
• Coordinates 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

• Ensures and monitors the correct use of the ERP system, including ensuring component changeouts are appropriately recorded
• Verify that work orders are closed with required fields populated
• Monitors planning and scheduling KPIs and targets including deviations from maintenance plan and communicates insights to Regional Planning leads
• Assists in identifying need for Reliability Engineers to review equipment strategies or Life Cycle Cost Models
• Develops 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
  

Knowledge:

• Thorough knowledge of maintenance principles and industry standards
• Thorough knowledge of the work management process
• Thorough knowledge of planning and scheduling maintenance activities
• General knowledge of performance measures and their interpretation

Experience:

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

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

This position is primarily based remotely from home, within Canada, and travel to site (Chapleau, ON) as required.

Flexible hours required to accommodate global nature of work
The schedule is 4 days on 3 days off.