Planner - Stationary Maintenance

Sibanye Stillwater

Big Timber, MT

Pay: $90,000+/yr

Shift: Full time

**Planner - Stationary Maintenance**

**Location:**

East Bould Mine - McLeod, MT

**Schedule:**

7X7 Rotating

**Job Responsibilities and Duties:**

At Sibanye-Stillwater, the Planner - Stationary Maintenance develops resource-ready work plans and executable maintenance schedules for stationary mechanical assets. The Planner maintains separate technical ownership for each discipline while coordinating shared outages, resources, and work-management processes to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations.

The Planner's primary duties are:

• Incorporate hazards, controls, permits, isolation requirements, task qualifications, environmental controls, and return-to-service requirements into planned work.
• Participate in field walkdowns, inspections, audits, and safety meetings; verify compliance with MSHA, site standards, and stationary-maintenance.
• Plan preventive, predictive, corrective, and major-repair work for hoists, conveyors, crushers, feeders, pumps, dewatering and ventilation systems, fans, compressors, piping, valves, structures, hydraulic and lubrication systems, and other fixed mechanical assets.
• Define work scope using field condition, equipment history, inspections, condition-monitoring results, OEM recommendations, and reliability findings.
• Plan component replacement, alignment, welding, machining, rigging, lifting, lubrication, inspection, isolation, and mechanical commissioning requirements.
• Validate mechanical parts, repairable spares, wear components, fabricated items, rigging equipment, and specialty tools before scheduling.
• Maintain mechanical equipment history, failure codes, bills of materials, standard jobs, and repair records.
• Develop long-range, monthly, weekly, and daily schedules aligned with approved priorities, preventive-maintenance needs, production requirements, equipment access, shutdown windows, and available resources.
• Resource-load and sequence ready work; confirm labor, skills, materials, tools, test equipment, contractors, work areas, and technical support are available.
• Facilitate planning and scheduling meetings and communicate priorities, constraints, outages, schedule changes, and maintenance impacts to Supervisors and affected stakeholders.
• Partner with the responsible General Foreman to establish maintenance priorities, approve weekly and long-range schedules, and align planned work with operational objectives.
• Escalate resource, access, outage, and operational constraints to the responsible General Foreman for resolution.
• Ensure Environmental Excellence is practiced throughout area of responsibility by identifying issues and coaching peers to enhance practices.
• Maintain standards and expectations for quality housekeeping, escalating non-conformance issues when necessary.

**Qualifications and Skills:**

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage competing demands.
• Ability to estimate labor, materials, duration, and cost with reasonable accuracy.
• Ability to distinguish mechanical requirements and recognize multidisciplinary dependencies.
• Ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings, schematics, specifications, manuals, and work orders.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong collaboration, coordination, and relationship-building skills across technical and operational groups.
• Maintenance planning and scheduling, including scoping, estimating, backlog management, resource loading, shutdown coordination, and schedule compliance.
• Underground fixed-plant and stationary-maintenance practices.
• Fixed mechanical assets, including hoists, conveyors, crushers, pumps, ventilation, and dewatering systems.

**Education & Experience**

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience interpreting technical drawings, schematics, specifications, equipment manuals, and maintenance records.
• Five years of relevant stationary, fixed-plant, industrial mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, maintenance-planning, or closely related heavy-industrial experience.
• Associate or bachelor's degree in maintenance technology, electrical technology, mechanical technology, engineering technology, asset management, business, or a related field preferred.
• At least one year of experience planning or scheduling maintenance work, including work scoping, labor and material estimating, backlog management, and work-order preparation preferred.
• Journeyman-level trade qualification or equivalent technical training in industrial electrical, instrumentation, millwright, mechanical, welding, or fixed-plant maintenance preferred.

*Sibanye-Stillwater is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at Sibanye-Stillwater are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gende