Plant Maintenance Senior Planner

Role Profile
GENERAL DETAILS

Role Title Plant Maintenance Senior Planner Location Site

Department Asset Strategy & Reliability GBF Band 6

Reports to (manager) Planning & Reliability Superintendent

Manager once removed Asset Strategy & Reliability Manager Date Jan 2019

CONTEXT
Asset Strategy and Reliability’s purpose is to optimise Group production performance through a step-change in
maintenance and reliability of plant and equipment.
PURPOSE
Deliver in a sustainable manner the offered availability and reliability of plant equipment at an optimal cost,
through:
• The correct administration of the Human Resources and the Assets.
• The Leadership in Safety, Environment and Social Affairs.
• Budget control and KPIs established for the maintenance of plant equipment.
• Specialized services including contracts and its budget control
• Continuous improvement.
TYPICAL TASKS

 Lead, implement and enforce the policy, safety procedures to ensure a safe work environment; increase
employee safety awareness and behavior.
 Ensure that employees (contractors) receive adequate training and education. Basic or specific induction
or supervisor safety module.
 Lead and ensure compliance with the established Health and Safety Management System, through a
reactive-to-proactive accident mitigation program.
 Manage all plant maintenance activities to comply with all environmental laws and regulations.
 Manage the general maintenance of the plant equipment. Responsible for guaranteeing the "KPIs"
established and use of Fleet Planning scorecard
 Manage scheduled and unscheduled activities; with quality, safety and at an optimal cost.
 Promote the culture of continuous improvement, through participation in specific improvement and
optimization projects in order to meet the budget, optimize costs and achieve equipment availability.
 A detailed understanding of maintenance resources (people and tools) required to implement the
Maintenance and the Process and be Business ready.
 Ability to analyze maintenance plans and challenge the maintenance staff to ensure the plans, maximize
fleet availability and reliability at the lowest cost. It includes backlogs management and coordination with
Logistics.
 Lead a team to ensure teamwork, cordial relations and full integration with Anglo policies for the common
achievement of results in the areas of safety, environment, community relations, technical and cost.
 Manage the plant maintenance Opex budget, through scheduling and planning control, weekly, monthly
and yearly.
 Lead the Capex control and coordinate with other related areas.
 Lead the scheduled repair process of equipment components and parts
ROLE RELATIONSHIPS
Managerially Accountable to: Planning and Reliability Superintendent

Key Internal Relationships: Plant Maintenance Senior Supervisor, Plant Senior Reliability Engineer,
Mechanical/Electrical/Instrument Supervisors

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 Key External Relationships: Suppliers and Contractors

Direct Reports (if applicable): Planners and Schedulers.

CAPABILITY REQUIRED TO DO THE ROLE

Mental Processing Ability This work involves the analysis, reflection and use of data for a short and medium
period, to anticipate problems. It requires knowledge of the general system and
focuses on the direct application and improvement of the systems.
Application/Energy  Consistently displays a positive and engaged attitude
 Positive attitude and results oriented
 Motivated and driven to meet high standards of delivery which create high
customer approval.
 Remains focused on times of uncertainty and ambiguity.
 Displays considerable personal effort to improve.
Knowledge Formal qualifications:
 Engineering degree, preferably with specialization in the mechanical,
electrical, electromechanical or industrial area.

Role-specific knowledge:
 No less than 10 years of experience in maintenance of plant equipment,
Primary and secondary Crushers circuits, SAG Mills circuits, Filter and
Flotation Circuits, Plant Facilities Maintenance
 Experience on Planning and scheduling in Maintenance
 Experience on use of ERP (SAP is recommended)
 Knowledge of English at a medium level.

Safety:
 Provides consistent outstanding leadership and behaviour in relation to
safety practices with a deep understanding of and passion for the
importance of safety.
Technical Skills Ability to:

Process optimization (Level 3)

It includes the activities and processes of the plant maintenance area through the
effective management of resources (labour and financial). Analyse key performance
data and apply relevant information to eliminate obstacles and deliver high
performance in a timely manner.
In coordination with the operations area, it optimizes the operation processes to
guarantee the effectiveness of the related operations. It incorporates new ways of
working, manages complex projects and increases cost savings.

Equipment management (Level 3)

Promotes the use, maintenance and improvement of effective equipment to achieve
the maximum competitive advantage in safety and value. Work as a team with
Maintenance Reliability area to achieve the established KPIs of availability and
usage, to guarantee that Anglo American can comply with the movement of the
daily, weekly, monthly and annual budgeted tons.
Applies specialized management knowledge and equipment / asset optimization to
drive improvements and innovations, incorporating the most advanced technology
and techniques.

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 Social Process Skills  Effectively influence and manage relationships with key internal and external
stakeholders to achieve required outcomes.
 Ability to facilitate agreement and co-operation using a diplomatic and open
approach.
 Effective in working with diverse teams and sensitive to local social, political
and cultural realities.
 Comfortably interact across all mediums of interaction i.e. face to face vs
virtual interactions with team and stakeholders.
 Uses networks in all stages of decision making to ensure decisions are not
made in isolation, though not to the extent that would be seen as abdicating
responsibility,
Any other requirements
to perform the work  Working at high altitude will be required.
effectively?

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