Maintenance Planner

Sandvik Mining is seeking a

Maintenance Planner

Location: Kirkland Lake, Ontario

At Sandvik, we offer you a world of opportunities. Our diverse businesses and global network enable you to explore your potential and thrive. We recognize your performance and offer various ways to fuel your growth towards exceptional achievements.

Are you an experienced Maintenance Planner looking for a stable, permanent opportunity in the mining industry? We want to hear from you! This is an on-site, Monday-to-Friday position working regular daytime hours.

The Maintenance Planner supports Sandvik's full maintenance contract at the Upper Beaver site by developing short- and long-term maintenance schedules, coordinating labour and materials, issuing preventive maintenance work to technicians, and maintaining accurate work-order data in Maximo and the customer's CMMS. The role works closely with site personnel, technicians, the customer, and the on-site Warehouse Technician to improve equipment availability and ensure planned work is ready for safe, efficient execution.

While searching for the best opportunity for yourself today, we are already thinking ahead of your future tomorrow. So now we challenge you to take it one step further and apply!

What you will be doing

• Plan and schedule preventive, predictive, corrective, and backlog maintenance work.
• Create, maintain, and communicate short- and long-term maintenance schedules with operational and site personnel.
• Develop, update, and maintain preventive maintenance job plans in alignment with OEM maintenance strategies.
• Use Maximo to create, schedule, issue, update, and close preventive maintenance work orders.
• Assign approved maintenance work to technicians and communicate schedule or scope changes.
• Record completed work, equipment history, labour, parts consumption, downtime, and other maintenance data accurately.
• Duplicate required maintenance and work-order information in the customer’s JDE CMMS.
• Coordinate labour, planned materials, tools, and equipment access to support maintenance execution.
• Prepare parts kits, material packages, and job information for technicians before planned work begins.
• Work with the customer on maintenance forecasting, production priorities, and schedule alignment.
• Generate KPI and maintenance reports, including mechanical availability, equipment history, work backlog, and parts consumption.
• Coordinate equipment-related parts requirements with the Warehouse Technician and follow up on urgent or backordered items.
• Manage warranty claims and schedule associated maintenance work.
• Participate in production and maintenance meetings and prepare supporting data as required.
• Build effective working relationships with the maintenance team, site personnel, internal partners, and the customer.
• Identify opportunities to improve maintenance plans, data quality, equipment performance, and work execution.
• Other duties as assigned by the manager.

Environmental Health and Safety

• We are ethical and compliant, dedicated to health, safety, and sustainability. We put health and safety first!

What you will bring along

• Post-secondary education in Maintenance Management, Engineering Technology, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field is considered an asset.
• Previous maintenance planning experience in mining or a heavy-equipment environment is preferred.
• Heavy equipment technician experience combined with strong maintenance-planning and computer skills will also be considered.
• Technical knowledge of heavy-duty UG mining equipment and OEM maintenance strategies is considered an asset.
• Experience using Maximo, JDE or another computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)
• Strong computer literacy and the ability to enter, maintain, and reconcile accurate data across multiple systems.
• Strong planning, scheduling, reporting, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Ability to coordinate labour, materials, priorities, and changing maintenance requirements.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer-relations skills with the ability to work as part of an integrated site team.
• High level of initiative, attention to detail, drive, and accountability for customer satisfaction.
• Ability to work on site at Upper Beaver, near Kirkland Lake, Monday through Friday during regular daytime hours.

In return for your passion and drive we will offer you…

• The opportunity to make an impact on our business performance.
• The opportunity to be part of an ambitious team, in an industry leading business.
• The opportunity to reach your full potential.
• Ongoing development and training.
• An excellent comprehensive compensation package including a pension plan with matching, competitive health, dental, life and disability benefits.

• The annual base salary range for this position is [$85,000.00] – [$95,000.00], with the final offer determined by the candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, internal equity, and applicable local market conditions.

Our Culture

Our core values are the soul of the company. They guide us in our actions and daily business decisions. We are a company with an open-minded culture that encourages employees to share ideas and work innovatively. We embrace diversity and inclusion and inspire everyone to bring their authentic selves to work everyday!

We take pride in our agile customer-focused decision making. We empower our employees, providing strong performance management and opportunities to grow your career.

Do you want to learn more?

All qualified persons are encouraged to apply at www.sandvik.com/careers to the Maintenance Planner, requisition # R0097649. While we thank all candidates for their interest, only those considered for an interview will be contacted. Candidates who participate in an interview will be informed of the hiring decision or receive a status update within the applicable timeframe, no later than 45 days.

This opportunity reflects a newly created position within our organization.

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence to assist with application screening. AI tools support but do not replace human decision-making. Personal information collected during this process is handled in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity in the workplace and encourage applications from members of equity-seeking communities including women, racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations or gender identities/expressions.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier free experience to applicants with accessibility needs; therefore, requests for accommodation can be made at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact [email protected] for more information.