Planning Superintendent Jobs

Mission for this Position

About Us

At Baffinland, we work and live beyond the Arctic Circle, mining iron ore at our Mary River Property, located in the Qikiqtani Region of Nunavut on Baffin Island; one of the world’s most captivating and seldom seen destinations. We are a unique company with a strong management who have amassed specialty experience on northern mining projects through all phases of Inuit consultation, permitting, construction and operation. Our workforce brings together the modern practice of safe, sustainable mining and the enduring value of a traditional culture, which is rapidly advancing. The result is a work and community experience you won't find anywhere else. We are looking for people ready to share, build, and grow with our company.

Reporting to the Planning Manager, the Planning Superintendent will provide direction, organization, and leadership to a centralized planning group. The purpose of this group is to minimize risk and uncertainties to the business through implementation of maintenance strategies and work processes and increase the organizational success.

Main Accountabilities

• Track, communicates and shares results and lessons learned – ensures successes are published and communicated to all employees.
• Supports quality control of maintenance work
• Participate in improvement initiatives including 5S, Value stream Mapping, TPM, Kanban systems and Kaizen Events.
• Conduct observations and analyze data including downtime, cycle time analysis, etc. in order to bring recommendations for improvement opportunities forward to the team.
• Supports the 5 whys process and coach others on it use.
• Responsible to review/ analyze data relating to Work management KPl’s, equipment reliability KPI’s, maintenance cost KPI’s (report to management).
• Support BIM operations through priorities set by General Managers
• Provide training to planner group.
• Accountable/Responsible for supporting team to submitting completed master data requests (create/change/delete) to maintain asset management system and quality.
• Support operation with planning process development and implementation of Lean Manufacturing within the site.
• Develop planning budget, manpower, schedule forecasts, performance and implement appropriate corrective actions to ensure adherence to plan.
• Manage all safety culture and practices for entire planning team.
• Act as a change agent to instill an operational excellence, performance improvement culture throughout the organization.
• Responsible for organization and direction of the site central planning group.
• Present findings formally to Senior and Executive Management teams.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Develop equipment and component standards and performance requirements as required.
• Perform various project administration tasks, including coordinating meetings, taking meeting minutes, forwarding communication releases, and perform maintenance of project tracking logs (i.e. issues, change control, etc.) in order to satisfy project management processes.
• Assist in development and improvement of CMM system.
• Supports the integrity of maintenance data for assigned area; Mobile and Fixed assets.
• Responsible to attend Maintenance - Operation meetings.
• Responsible to review and analyze equipment history details for the maintenance activities performed.
• Accountable/Responsible for maintaining current and correct specifications, manuals, and work instruction for Fixed and Mobile assets (Documentation/ Shared Drive/ Library/SAP BOMs etc.)
• Organize and manage planning processes and projects from initial concept development to final commissioning and project close-out.
• Support Reliability in developing equipment maintenance strategies for assets and spares.
• Support Warehouse in standardizing parts and deleting unnecessary spares.
• Help develop employee’s lean skills through effective coaching, teaching, mentoring and simulated work environmental training.
• Perform benchmarking activities.

Main Qualifications

• Experience in business process design and operations and/or maintenance is required.
• Maintenance Management Professional (MMP) designation preferred
• Experience using SAP Maintenance system and PI required
• Experience with developing and reviewing process methodology and tools.
• Experience in open pit mining preferred, Arctic experience beneficial.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with cross functional groups to successfully manage project deliverables.
• 5-7 years' experience organizing and leading a planning department
• Strong experience in maintenance and planning required.
• Minimum 10 years mining experience
• Management ability to lead a team of 5 professional employees.
• Data manipulation and analysis techniques including trend and statistical analysis.
• Significant experience designing workshops, facilitating group sessions and work with teams and gain crucial input from key contributors.
• Exceptional analytical skills at both strategic and functional levels
• Knowledge in organizational design and change management principles and methodologies.
• Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) preferred
• Strategic thinking and understanding of critical issues related to Planning
• Proven ability to lead and work through others without direct reporting relationship to achieve business goals utilizing persuasion and influencing skills.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt is preferred
• Excellent relationship management skills: listening, diplomacy, patience and negotiation.
• Understand of planning and maintenance concepts
• Experience in successfully leading to completion, mid to large scale transformations of complex business processes resulting in significant and sustainable results.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Suite required
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with all levels of the organization.

Job ID 2023-4928

Job Category Planning

Job Type Permanent

Job Location 1 : Location CA-NU-Mary River