Maintenance Planner

Position Overview

Barrick Africa Middle East is eager to welcome a Maintenance Planner to join and strengthen our team, embodying Barrick's core principles of integrity, accountability, results-orientation, sustainability, zero harm commitment, transparent communication, and partnership cultivation. We seek individuals ready to contribute meaningfully in line with these values.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the main liaison between maintenance and plant departments to ensure timely, efficient, and quality maintenance support to assigned production units.
• Manage both long-term and short-term maintenance planning, analyzing backlog versus resource availability to foster a proactive maintenance culture.
• Schedule maintenance activities in advance to meet regulatory, safety, and production capacity requirements, enhancing equipment uptime and reliability.
• Integrate continuous improvement methodologies to refine maintenance work plans, ensuring quality, accuracy, and effective execution of future tasks.
• Maintain and update job plans for efficient scheduling and optimal resource allocation.
• Keep comprehensive asset data current, including master data, specifications, bills of materials, and work history, aligning with operational and organizational needs.
• Collaborate with schedulers to consolidate maintenance tasks for simultaneous execution, maximizing maintenance opportunities.
• Manage work orders from requesting departments, excluding urgent emergency requests handled by supervisors.
• Create supplementary diagrams and clarify work order intents when necessary.
• Review and verify work orders for completeness, priority appropriateness, and proper authorization, consulting with originating departments as needed.
• Evaluate necessity of requested work and escalate unresolved queries to the maintenance superintendent or manager.
• Coordinate with engineers on work orders requiring design input.
• Define job scope and best execution approaches, consulting supervisors as needed.
• Identify and procure required materials, verifying stock availability and reserving critical items.
• Ensure safety considerations are prioritized during planning and scheduling.
• Estimate job parameters such as steps, manpower, person-hours, and costs, including labor and materials.
• Maintain backlogs organized by priority and scheduling readiness, filing jobs pending engineering, materials, or downtime accordingly.
• Confirm resource availability before scheduling jobs and communicate special instructions as needed.
• Understand PM workloads across departments to optimize scheduling efficiency.
• Develop maintenance work schedules aligned with workforce capacity and skill requirements, coordinating manpower through supervisors and management.
• Coordinate material reservations and safety arrangements in line with plant schedules.
• Monitor ongoing work order costs relative to budgets.
• Promote energy conservation initiatives.
• Coordinate with other planners for multi-disciplinary job scheduling.
• Participate in periodic cost analyses with management to recommend cost-reduction measures.
• Keep management informed about critical or unusual situations for guidance.
• Recommend system improvements and maintain records, reports, and reference libraries for recurring jobs and equipment-specific data.
• Suggest additions to authorized inventory stock as necessary.
• When assigned, perform other tasks from maintenance management.

Qualification and Experience Requirements

• Technical background in Mechanical or Electrical fields preferred; technical school education desirable.
• Possession of a valid Tanzanian driver's license.
• Experience in manufacturing or industrial sectors.
• Extensive hands-on on-the-job training.
• Familiarity with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards and Mines Health & Safety Act awareness.
• Five to ten years of maintenance planning experience within the mining industry.
• Competence in estimating labor hours, crafts, and skill levels for jobs.
• Proficiency with SAP or equivalent maintenance management software.
• Strong knowledge of modern maintenance and scheduling techniques.

Compensation and Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation package including bonuses and location-specific benefits.
• Opportunity to create lasting, significant impact in the industry.
• Work within a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team environment.
• Access to extensive learning and professional development opportunities alongside industry peers.
• Potential career advancement across organizational divisions.

About Barrick and Site Information

Barrick is a world-leading gold and copper mining enterprise dedicated to responsible mining and meaningful partnerships. Our operations span 18 countries with some of the most prestigious gold mines globally. The North Mara Gold Mine is situated in Tarime district, Mara region, northwest Tanzania, near Lake Victoria and the Kenyan border, operational since 2002 with combined open pit and underground mining and a processing capacity of about 8,000 tonnes of ore daily.