Northern Star Resources Limited is a gold mining company with underground and open-pit operations and exploration programs in Western Australia and Alaska. Its production centres span Kalgoorlie, Yandal and Pogo/Pilbara. The company’s work includes targeted exploration and extending the life of its mining assets, alongside a focus on safety, sustainability and engagement with local communities.
Reliability Planning Project Coordinator — Alaska
Lead maintenance reliability, planning, scheduling and project execution at Northern Star Resources’ remote Alaska gold-processing plant. Improve work management discipline and equipment performance across the site.
Tavsif
- Lead planning, scheduling and reliability for Processing Maintenance.
- Manage delegated capital projects, including their scope and execution.
- Run a consistent weekly planning and scheduling cycle.
- Improve work identification, scoping, planning, scheduling, execution and close-out.
- Apply plan-do-check-act practices to work management and reliability routines.
- Review and control the maintenance backlog, addressing aged, duplicate, obsolete and poorly scoped work orders.
- Raise preventive maintenance compliance, especially for critical assets and statutory work.
- Review preventive maintenance strategies and recommend improvements to task quality, frequency and execution.
- Build and maintain a practical maintenance KPI dashboard.
- Track and report planned work ratio, reactive work, schedule and preventive maintenance compliance, backlog health, work order quality and reliability.
- Lead bad actor reviews and defect elimination for repeat failures and high-impact equipment.
- Make sure reliability actions are practical, prioritised, assigned, resourced and completed.
- Lead shutdowns and take accountability for Cadence.
- Lead major work planning, covering shutdown quality, materials and contractor readiness, and post-shutdown close-out.
- Support critical spares reviews and improve bills of materials.
- Coach planners, reliability engineers, supervisors and maintenance leaders on work management.
- Work closely with Maintenance, Operations, Warehouse and Supply, contractors and other site teams.
- Report to the Maintenance Superintendent.
Talablar
- Substantial maintenance planning and reliability leadership experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry or fixed plant operations.
- Strong understanding of gold or comparable mineral processing plants.
- Experience improving maintenance work management in a reactive or underperforming operation.
- Experience leading planners, schedulers, reliability engineers or maintenance improvement teams.
- Practical knowledge of preventive maintenance, backlog management, weekly scheduling, shutdown planning, defect elimination, root cause analysis, maintenance KPIs and CMMS practices.
- Experience using Pronto, SAP, AMT or a similar CMMS.
- Pronto experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong communication, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
- A practical, field-focused leadership style and ability to build trust quickly.
- Ability to work with imperfect data while improving work discipline, systems and reporting quality.
- Remote mining experience is desirable.
- Gold processing experience is desirable.
- Ability to work a rotating 15-days-on, 13-days-off schedule, including day and night shifts of up to 12 hours or longer.
- Ability to work in extreme and changing weather, dust, mud, varying noise and light, and confined work areas.
- Must stay in the company-provided camp during each work rotation.
- Visa sponsorship is not available.
Imtiyozlar
- Permanent role with an extended mine life offering job security.
- Competitive remuneration package with bonuses.
- Insurance coverage.
- 401(k) plan.
- Paid leave.
- Ongoing development and career growth opportunities.
- Company-provided camp accommodation.
- Dining service.
- Games room.
- Exercise and weight room.
- Sauna.
- Landline phone, internet and cable TV in dormitory rooms.
- Cell service available over Wi-Fi.
- Bus service to and from Fairbanks, Delta Junction and Tok, Alaska.