Long Range Planner

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 Superintendent, the Long Range Planner will plan longer term strategies for mobile equipment assessment, inspections, mid-life, and asset refurbishments working closely with Reliability and Mobile Maintenance on supporting Iron Ore Mining operation to maintain the asset life cycle.

• Attend daily, weekly, monthly safety meetings and actively engage in safety culture.
• Understand the life and operations limitations of the components of the fleet.
• Provide technical/operational input into maintenance procedures for life of asset to ensure operational readiness.
• Adjust scope dependent on budget constraints and feedback during budget review process and occasionally during fiscal year.
• Provide weekly cost forecasting
• Update project status weekly
  • Total spend
  • Percent executed
  • Up-to-date estimated return to service
• Coordinate with service writers and finance on core return date estimates (part of cost forecasting

5-Year Plan:

• Identify equipment that is the highest risk and most needs the rebuilds/refurbishments for the next year
• Maintain up-to-date 5-year plan annually
• Review oil analysis results with Reliability to determine component life
• Present relevant machine component detail to management explaining change out effect, cost and down time. Run a component change out calendar for customer equipment users and budgetary purpose

1-Year Plan:

• Principle contact and liaison between the maintenance department and operations groups and ensuring assets have an accurate bill of materials for refurbishment and sealift inventory.
• Understand our requirement for parts stocking on site. Build RFI’s as required.  Request parts stocking changes for any under/over stock requirements.
• Provide parts requirements for annual sea lift based on planned MCCs
• Order parts in SAP
• Ensure all capex work is charged to the correct WBS accounts
• Create purchase requisitions for labour support

AFEs:

• Write AFEs
• Work with asset owners to write AFEs for new equipment – asset owner to provide operational justification
• Working with Reliability build and maintain an effective system that monitors equipment work hours and indicates remaining life expectancy of machine components.
• Update machine hours in the component tracker
• Update component forecasting spreadsheet when components fail
• Integrate component tracking into SAP
• Work with the service writer to update the hours that a component was changed

Scheduling:

• Create gantt charts in MS Project for individual rebuilds and overall equipment schedule
• Host weekly meetings with asset managers reviewing major component replacement schedule
• Coordinate with external suppliers on parts deliveries and labour availability
• Adjust MCR schedule based on operational demands
• Update maintenance strategies and review scope of work, realistic completion date, proper lead time, correct equipment identification, proper costing information, proper authorization, and discuss details with maintenance and operation groups when required.
• Actively participate in planning and scheduling meeting with operation partners to finalize priority of work orders for Mid-life and annual refurbishments.
• Attend daily, weekly, monthly planning meetings to review prioritizes for maintenance plans for long term actives with other operational departments and team members.

MCC Job Planning:

• Collaborate with necessary department resources to develop work scopes, job plans, safe work instructions, parts lists for accurate plans for the scheduling and manpower forecasting yearly rebuilds of major assets.
• Have a clear understanding of material and budgetary requirements for component change out and refurbishment to facilitate maximum asset uptime.
• Identify efficient job sequencing for MCCs
• Communicate requirement of support equipment in job plan
• Create job execution binders for MCC
• Continuously improve the job estimate, planning and scheduling by receiving feedback from maintenance supervisors, maintenance leads, production supervisors, engineers and production planners.
• Audit planned work and long range job kits and ensure accuracy.
• Communicate with mobile scheduler on execution plans for MCCs

During Execution:

• Daily meetings during execution, escalate any delays that will cause overspend or a change in the return to service date
• Make daily field visits to review MCC progress and gather feedback from mechanics
• Identify additional parts lists required to be changed along with major components (hoses, fittings, etc.)
• Assist in the continuous improvement of PM strategies
• Create bills of materials
• Create standard jobs (task lists) for major component replacements

Other/Uncategorized:

• Work closely with the mobile maintenance superintendent and mobile maintenance manager to provide the service required to maximize equipment and fleet availability
• Fill in for Short Range Planner and Scheduler as required.

Other duties as required.

• College diploma in a technical discipline such as , Heavy Duty Technician, Diesel Mechanics, Electrician or a related field.
• 7 to 10 years experience as a trades person relevant to the planning vacancy. Experience planning facility or mobile maintenance
• Proficient working knowledge of SAP computer maintenance management system
• Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Project software
• Ability to confidently present to a broad range of people and able to answer questions accordingly
• Planning and scheduling training course certification
• An applicable facility maintenance trades certification

Compensation for this position is aligned with Baffinland’s approved compensation framework and current market conditions. Final compensation will be determined based on:
• Relevant education and certifications
• Related training and experience
• Internal equity considerations

This site-based role is eligible for participation in the travel benefits, site premiums, comprehensive health and dental coverage, and pension participation.

All applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

In accordance with our commitments under the Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement (IIBA), priority hiring consideration will be given to Inuit candidates and residents of Nunavut, particularly from communities near our operations.

Baffinland is committed to building a diverse workforce and encourages applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, and individuals from underrepresented groups.