Planning Specialist – Concentrator Plant

About the role

The Planning Specialist will define and monitor all planning and maintenance engineering processes for the Concentrator plant, ensuring the design capacity and critical KPIs are met. The role drives best‑practice transformation in maintainability, availability, reliability and lean production while mentoring the maintenance team.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, plan and control the 52‑week maintenance schedule, including weekly (w+1) and monthly (w+4) activities.
• Produce weekly, monthly and shutdown reports and analyse material needs, negotiating with supply‑chain for MRO stock levels.
• Lead technical documentation control, ensure correct specifications for services and components, and support expediting of materials.
• Coordinate with plant operations, PCM, inspection, execution, lubrication, automation and predictive teams to achieve planned availability.
• Identify and implement improvement projects, technical analyses and sustaining investments to maintain production capacity.

Required profile

• Tertiary qualification in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience in planning and maintenance engineering within an industrial or mining environment.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities to guide multidisciplinary teams.

Required skills

• Reliability engineering
• Asset management
• Predictive maintenance techniques
• Maintenance planning and scheduling tools
• Material analysis and MRO inventory management