Location/Duty Station: Benishangul Gumuz, Asosa Zone, Kurmuk Woreda Project Site
Roster: Fly-In/Fly-Out (6 Weeks On / 2 Weeks Off)
Company: Kurmuk Gold Mine PLC (KGM), a subsidiary of Allied Gold Corp
Employment Type: Full-Time | Site-Based

The Role

The Maintenance Planner optimizes equipment uptime and workforce productivity by eliminating potential delays through meticulous coordination of labour, parts, and equipment access. Responsible for managing maintenance strategies, execute Maintenance Management Systems, and prioritize work orders to meet production targets without compromising safety.

Key Responsibilities

Planning & Scheduling: 

• Develop, review, and adjust short- and long-term (corrective and preventative) maintenance schedules (preventive, predictive, and corrective) based on OEM manuals and operational history. 
• Develop weekly and monthly maintenance schedules in collaboration with the team 
• Balance maintenance priorities based on the severity and production requirements

Work Order Management: 

• Develop detailed maintenance plans 
• Prepare work orders, job packages, procedures and resource requirements
• Review maintenance requests and prioritize according to operational requirements
• Derive detailed Scope of works for major maintenance related roles.
• Including required tools, safety steps, technical drawings, and estimated labour hours. 

Supply Chain Coordination: 

• Create critical spartes lists
• Verify the availability of required spares, materials, and external services in the inventory system before maintenance execution.

System Accuracy: 

• Maintain CMMS and ERP databases (e.g., Oracle, Pronto) by logging work histories, updating task lists, and managing asset hierarchies. 

Continuous Improvement: 

• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) on recurring equipment failures and generate performance reports (MTBF, MTTR, PM compliance) to refine maintenance strategies.

Shutdown & Outage Planning: 

• Lead planning efforts for major overhauls and planned plant shutdowns, working closely with Reliability Engineers and Operations.

Safety 

• Ensure a safe work environment
• Conduct safety inspections
• Ensure employees are trained and certified in safety and health practices
• Respond to incidents and prevent accident

Productivity

• Plan and organize work
• Implement/deliver monthly, weekly, and daily plans.
• Distribute tasks to the team 
• Oversee work progress
• Achieve production targets
• Optimize production through investigating new/alternative ways of doing work.
• Minimized cost and wastage.

Compliance

• Submit statistics, reports, job cards and time sheets
• Comply with relevant legislation and mining regulations
• Comply with company standards and mine plans
• Comply with ground support rules

Team Development

• Develop employees by providing advice, encouragement, and coaching
• Build teams and motivate individuals
• Solve problems to achieve results
• Identify development needs

Finance & Commercial:

• Apply accounting processes and practices.
• Apply procurement processes. 
• Implement optimisation initiatives. 
• Ensure monthly expenditure to be in budget.

Leadership / management:

• Ensure integration of function annual plan and operation annual plan.
• Implement policies, processes, and procedures within function.
• Align to function plans and targets.
• Obtain and allocate resources to enable teams to deliver on daily, weekly, quarterly, annual targets. 
• Design solutions based on functional knowledge to address business needs.
• Drive performance for achieving function outcomes.
• Share information regularly in the form of management reports.
• Collaborate with teams and encourage individual contribution.
• Participate in collaborative teamwork to achieve function objectives.
• Support cross functional teamwork to achieve functional objectives.
• Demonstrate agility and tenacity.
• Develop backup support within the team for roster breaks.

People:

• Coaching and transfer of knowledge
• Assists teams to focus on the task at hand and remove obstacles.
• Develop engineering employees' understanding of technical and commercial aspects contributing to business success.
• Ensure training of teams to improve skill levels and achieve function objectives.

Health and Safety:

• Ensure work processes are free from safety and health hazard and that subordinates are trained to ensure safety.
• Model behavior consistent with the Allied Safety Vision and Values.
• Support departmental health and safety goals.
• Maintain processes to ensure a safe workplace for all employees and external service providers.

Compliance and Business Improvement:

• Ensure compliance with policies, procedures and programs as required by operation, business, and the regulator (e.g., OHSAS 18001).
• Identify and prioritize all risks and liabilities and ensure these risks and liabilities are recorded and monitored against a mitigation action plan.
• Conduct and control of risk assessments.