Process Maintenance Planner - Newmont Goldcorp Corporation

Newmont Mining Corporation is a leading global gold producer with key assets in Nevada, Peru, Australia, Ghana and Suriname.

Newmont’s Africa Operations holds two gold mining operations in Ghana: the Ahafo Mine located in the Brong-Ahafo region and the Akyem Mine located in the Eastern region. There is also near mine exploration and development focus in Ghana to annually replace gold reserves. Newmont Africa also has early-stage exploration programs in the African countries of Ethiopia and Morocco.

Our Africa operations employ approximately 5,900 employees and contractors, with the majority working at the Ahafo Mine. We offer an unparalleled blend of opportunity and career satisfaction with all the benefits you would expect from a global company. This, combined with our growth opportunities, makes Newmont a great company to work.

Our Akyem and Ahafo mines have made significant sustainable community development investments in our host communities. These include establishing Development Funds at our Akyem and Ahafo operational areas with each mine contributing US$1 per ounce of gold sold and 1% of net pre-tax annual profit into its community development fund.

The only gold company listed in the S&P 500 index, Newmont in 2007 became the first gold company selected to be part of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Newmont’s industry leading performance is reflected through our Africa operations’ high standards in environmental management, health and safety for our workforce and creating value and opportunity for our employees, host communities and Newmont’s shareholders.

In This Role You Will:

• Establish and maintain short-term maintenance schedule (i.e. three to six months ahead).
• Conduct regular schedule and maintenance plan reviews with key stakeholders biannually to enable proper scoping of jobs.
• Conduct reviews of maintenance plans and costing, and make adjustments, where required.
• Conduct coding of work orders to suit the requirements of the AMT budgeting tool.
• Create reservations and requisitions for parts, materials, services and special tools and equipment.
• Ensure all maintenance works are completed in a safe manner and in compliance with established safe work procedures and systems.
• Run and distribute respective reports to relevant stakeholders for each scheduling period
• Pull relevant information required from the SAP system to inform the approach for Work Order Completion.
• Update Component and / or equipment tracking in CMMS.
• Review closing comments and improvement suggestions on completed work orders and action appropriately to improve future planning.
• Oversee that all MOS Element documentation is current and approved changes communicated to all relevant stakeholders.
• Determine shutdown critical path activities, update shutdown schedule as required.

Your Skills, Knowledge & Experience Checklist:

• Higher National Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical or Electrical).
• At least 3-4 years’ experience in planning and maintenance systems in a large gold operation or similar heavy industrial plant, of which 2 – 3 years should be leading maintenance teams.
• Knowledge and experience with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Sound knowledge of the operation of the CMMS (Ellipse/SAP).
• General knowledge of performance measures and their interpretation.

Working Conditions

The criteria below must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job;

• Specific vision abilities required by the job include: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required to sit at a desk for extended periods, climb stairs, walk and stand.
• Work Environment:  Occasional exposure to noise, fumes, high temperature hazardous materials, sharp edges, dust, pinch-points, vibration, slippery surfaces etc.The noise level in the office work environment is however minimal.
•  Incumbent must be willing and able to work overtime, weekends and holidays, when required.