Reporting to UG E&I Senior Supervisor or directly to UG E&I Superintendent.

The Underground Electrical & Instrumentation Planner develops, implements, coordinates and monitors maintenance plans in order of priority for preventative, shutdown, backlog, and ad-hoc maintenance work activities. 

The Underground Electrical & Instrumentation Planner incorporates fixed asset strategies and enhances planning processes to improve service quality, data accuracy, efficiency, and workplace safety.

Key Responsibilities:

Area 1: Develop electrical maintenance plans.

• Plan and release work orders (task list, SOPs, permits, resourcing, materials, tools, equipment, costs, preliminary work, scheduling date);
• Prepare shutdown project work packages that include the proper identification of shutdown scope and coordinate with the scheduler to determine important shutdown schedule milestones;
• Develop work packages that clearly identify task conditions, constraints, hazard controls, permits, labor, equipment, materials, specialized tools, services, test and handover procedures, durations, sequencing, and timing;
• Maintain a healthy UG E&I-fixed plant maintenance backlog with two (2) to four (4) workweeks of ready to schedule jobs;
• Record service & maintenance activities and verify that data from completed work packages is accurately captured using EMMS in order to identify trends and opportunities for improvement;
• Address any associated planning issues, such as operational requirements, parts availability, equipment deficiencies, inadequate work procedures, and data accuracy;
• Update PM requirements with feedback from supervisor and crews and data from completed work orders;
• Improve work package requirements and minimize costs without sacrificing safety or quality;
• Lead UG E&I - fixed plant maintenance planning meetings to review and prioritize PMs, corrective, shutdown, and project work orders for planning;

Area 2: Operational Excellence.

• Commit to training and mentoring of national Junior UG E&I planner;
• Comply with all safe work practices, policies, and processes;
• Seek for inefficiencies or problems by being proactive and solution driven;
• Ensure problems and inefficiencies are shared with others;
• Work collaboratively to troubleshoot and problems solve;
• Consider risk along the five dimensions (throughput, time, quality, sustainability and cost);
• Review the daily, weekly, and monthly KPIs performance against the maintenance plan and report non-conformances related to the targets;
• Understand and recalibrate non-conformances to the plan and KPI targets and develop mitigating/corrective actions to achieve the longer-term plan;
• Prepare forecasts for future maintenance activities on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis;
• Operate and maintain the planning systems using company SAP mainframe;
• Comply with international electrical standard, site electrical specifications, local labor laws and regulations;

Area 3: Work collaboratively with other to deliver operational reliability.

• Coordinate with the reliability personnel, the development of reliability and maintenance strategies for critical equipment;
• Provide and support communication links between production, maintenance, technical services, and operations employees;
• Support the negotiation of various services and maintenance contracts;
• Communicate with maintenance trades, engineers, and supervisors to ensure timely feedback is provided, received, and implement;
• Facilitate and participate in the weekly multi-disciplinary scheduling meetings;
• Communicate and coordinate with supply chain partners to ensure efficient collaboration between both department and items arrive as scheduled;
• During the construction, pre-commissioning, and commissioning phases, support the implementation of the maintenance system;

Knowledge and skills:

• Strong experience with ETAP, AutoCAD, EMMS, SAP and considerable knowledge computer literature;
• Experience with electrical design and calculations;
• Ability to plan and monitor the short and medium planning function as per underground mining plan;
• Ability to prepare electrical long terms plans and schedules for all current and future installations based on underground mining plan;
• Excellent knowledge of data acquisition techniques and QA/QC procedures;
• Knowledge electrical drilling machine such jumbo drill, solo drill, cubex drill, cabel bolter drill;
• Knowledge electrical equipment such transformer, generator, switchgears, MCC, VSD, Motor, genset, batch plan, pump, fan;
• Knowledge underground electrical equipment reticulations installations;
• Financial analysis and risk analysis techniques;
• Project planning and budgeting skills;
• Attention to detail and analytical skills;
• Knowledge of internationals electrical standard;
• Knowledge of UG electrical installations & mine safety requirements;
• Considerable knowledge of the occupational hazards and safety precautions of electricity;
• Fluency in English both written and spoken, knowledge of French desirable but not essential;
• Driving license B-category. Knowledge driving LV, IT, Tele Handler, Fork Lift and scissor lift;