Smelter Operation Readiness Planner

Jobs Purpose/Fungsi Jabatan

Responsible to ensure the reliability, availability, and efficiency of smelting and refining plant equipment by developing accurate maintenance plans, scheduling preventive and corrective work, coordinating resources, and ensuring execution aligns with safety, cost, and production goals.

Jobs Key Duties & Responsibilities

1. Develop and maintain preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance plans.
2. Prepare weekly and monthly maintenance schedules aligned with production needs.
3. Coordinate resources, tools, materials, and manpower required for maintenance activities.
4. Review, prioritize, and manage maintenance work orders in the CMMS.
5. Ensure maintenance plans comply with safety standards, LOTO procedures, and risk assessments.
6. Monitor and control spare parts availability and support procurement activities.
7. Track and report maintenance KPIs to improve planning effectiveness.
8. Collaborate closely with Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, OHS, and Environmental teams.
9. Support shutdown and turnaround planning for smelting and refining equipment.
10. Maintain accuracy of equipment master data and job plans in CMMS.

Jobs Challenges

• Complex and Highly Interdependent Equipment; smelting and refining plants operate with equipment that is hot, hazardous, and interlinked (furnaces, converters, anode furnaces, electrorefining cells, gas cleaning systems). Any planning error can disrupt the entire production chain.
• Production demand is often tight, and equipment operates continuously. Planners must negotiate downtime windows while ensuring maintenance is still executed effectively.
• Critical spare parts often have long lead times. Ensuring availability while minimizing stock cost is a continuous challenge.
• Unexpected breakdowns, shifting priorities, and resource constraints can reduce schedule adherence. Planners must continuously adjust without compromising quality or safety.

Requirement Education & Experience

Education:

Bachelor's degree or associate Degree from any Engineering field.

Experience:

Five (5) years of experience as planner or in shutdown management, especially directly relevant to mining industry or manufacture/smelter facilities.

Knowledge, Skills & Characters

Knowledge

• In-depth understanding of planning for various maintenance activity.
• Use of systems (CMMS) for recording work orders and asset management.

Skill

• Ability to diagnose and repair issues quickly and accurately.
• Leading planner, organizing work schedules, and ensuring productivity.
• Providing technical and safety coaching to the team.

Characters

• Safety-Oriented
• Detail-Oriented and Thorough
• Communicative and Cooperative
• Organized and Disciplined
• High Responsibility