Major Duties

The Planning Specialist is responsible for defining and monitoring all the processes of Planning and Maintenance Engineering for the Concentrator plant, developing short- and long-term solutions to sustain the design of total capacity of the site with all critical KPIs, and for planning, scheduling, controlling the execution maintenance, as well, guaranteeing in perfect conditions resources, tools, and preparation, inspection, and predictive maintenance for the Concentrator area. He/she will lead the transformation of best practices related to maintainability, availability, reliability, and lean production, taking full responsibility for mentoring the staff and complies with the company’s SHEQ Systems.

Process: Engineering and Planning processes including Reliability, Asset Management, Planning and Controlling of Maintenance.

• Support Maintenance leaders/areas to achieve mainly planned availability and productivity of the Concentrator plant. 
• Carry out processing, training, and projects to agreed quality, quantity, and schedule.
• Work in close cooperation with the Plant Operational teams to ensure mainly effective utilization, performance, and productivity of Concentrator plant. 
• Ensure appropriate facilities, procedures, and workforce competence to achieve legal compliance, incident prevention and the achievement of tasks in an environmentally sustainable manner.
• Maintain and relationships with stakeholders in AML’s mining and rail planned activities, consistent with ArcelorMittal’s Community Relations Policies.
• Ensure the necessary conditions for the team to achieve the productivity goals established through the maintenance best practices processes, such as: inspection and predictive planning, maintenance systems analysis, planning workforce indicator, scheduling workforce indicator, tools calibration adherence, systematic maintenance orders adherence. 
• Anticipate and develop the preparation for the w+1 (actual and following week) maintenance activities, as well the w+4 (4 more weeks ahead)
• Develop and consolidate all weekly and monthly Maintenance reports, as well periodic shutdowns, and big breakdowns reports.
• Develop, plan and control the 52 weeks plan for whole Maintenance, with proper management tools. 
• Raise potential improvements of maintenance plans.
• Be responsible for material analysis and negotiate with Supply-chain optimal levels of MRO, non-zero stock of critical items and long lead-time materials. 
• Ensure the development and maintenance of up-to-date job procedures for all tasks performed within the function.
• Develop objectives for sharing common infrastructure and support services across ArcelorMittal and cascade this throughout function.
• Analyze, elaborate, and guarantee the development of improvement projects and technical analyses that guarantee the maintenance of production capacity for the different production scenarios.
• Analyze, elaborate, and guarantee the implementation of future technical solutions through sustaining investments in the production process, aligned with the demands of the area of operation and maintenance.
• Ensure the assessment of operational assets, the physical and structural integrity of the equipment and its nominal production capacity.
• Ensure the necessary conditions for the planning area to achieve the productivity goals established through the engineering processes, such as: loss profile, failure analysis, initial control, predictive techniques, structural integrity, and development of new technologies.
• Ensure the development of technical solutions to mitigate or eliminate systemic failures.
• Carry out the management and correct document flow of technical documentation inside Doc Control of AML.
• Support technically the process of expediting the materials and components management.
• Coordinate preparation and review of maintenance plans.
• Interface and technically interact with other corporate areas of Planning and Execution including maintenance control, regional purchasing, inventory management, consolidated purchasing, tax cells and human resources, as well as third-parties service providers.
• Approve new suppliers ensuring compliance with the technical assumptions applicable to the tests and provide technical basis of AML.
• Support the identification of opportunity gains through the development of materials engineering, aiming at cost reduction and productivity increase.
• Develop and manage the budget portfolio of its area of operation.
• Ensure the analysis of operational constraints and bottlenecks, develop, and implement solutions.
• Guide, develop and technically train the team, seeking to identify potential successors in their area of expertise.
• Technically guide the areas of PCM, Inspection, Execution, Lubrication, Automation and Predictive.
• Ensure Initial Control for all New Assets.
• Ensure the correct technical specification of services and/or components for maintenance.
• Ensure compliance with maintenance engineering and production system procedures.
• Ensure team unity through monitoring and managing the organizational climate.
• Disseminate corporate information through the team, such as: movement of people through the areas, mergers and acquisitions, new policies of AML among others.
• Be aligned with the company's code of ethics, transmitting the values to the team.

Site OEE

• Adherence of Failure analysis
• Adherence of Sustaining Investments
• Adherence of Structural inspection
• Adherence of Structural repairs
• Adherence of Civil Maintenance
• Adherence of Maintenance schedule
• Adherence of Maintenance Costs
• Adherence of inspection & Predictive Maintenance
• Zero non-compliance with tools
• Tools calibration adherence
• Maintenance Planning indicators
• Adherence of Production System method

Stakeholder management

• Build good working relationships. 
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and direct reports, build sound relationships and ensure good communications.
• Keep open communications channels with the control room and all relevant sections. 
• Ensure knowledge and advice is technically accurate and provide stakeholders with relevant information to keep them informed. 
• Ensure timeous resolution of queries and complaints and take ownership of issues
• Collaboration
• Sustainable relationships
• Communication
• Meetings 

People: supervise the work of the supervisors

• Ensure knowledge transfer amongst peers and direct reports.
• Ensure compliance to HR policies, procedures, and rules (i.e., submission of timelines, skills reports, etc.).
• Provide on the job coaching for direct employees.
• Performance management
• On the job coaching
• HR policies and procedure compliance

Finance: reduce costs through waste management

• Extend the life of equipment, machinery, PPE and tools through good housekeeping, care, and maintenance.
• Waste reduction
• Cost efficiencies

Transformation

• Support transformation in terms of people and sustainability
• Assist supervisor monitoring progress of field operators and plant operators.
• Support for transformation initiatives

HSEQ Follow the HSEQ plan for the Business area.

• Ensure a Zero Harm workplace.
• Follow the HSE plan for the Business area and take remedial actions where necessary. 
• Ensure safe practices are followed and prevent work-related injuries to self and others.
• Report all defective equipment, possible hazards, and unsafe work practices.
• Comply and co-operate with all safety principles, directions, instructions, and training.
• Attend all position-relevant training courses and wear the correct PPE at all times.
• Attend all relevant Toolbox and Safety meetings, actively participate, and ensure understanding; sign to confirm.
• 100% Compliance with rules, policies, and procedures
• Legal compliance
• Lost time Injuries
• Safety Audit
• Zero Harm

Reporting and Governance and Quality 

• Provide feedback to be used in reports.
• Accurately report machine / equipment use.
• Submit downtime report.           
• Accurate reporting
• Reliability report
• Sustaining investments report
• Civil and structural maintenance report

 Knowledge And Skills 

Minimum Qualification Preferred Qualification

Tertiary qualification in Mechanical or Electrical Engineer, Post-graduate in Maintenance, Engineering or Project Management 

Role Specific Knowledge

• Asset Management 
• Reliability knowledge
• Project management knowledge 
• Safety principles

Technical Skill – Ability to apply Knowledge.

• Communication skills – verbal
• Electrical and mechanical skills 
• Machine / equipment operation 
• Time management 

Experience Required 

• Proven experience in Maintenance Engineering or Engineering degree with a minimum 15 years
• Minimum of 5 years leading teams
• Proven knowledge using Reliability tools such as RCM, FTA, LDA, RBD etc. 
• Proven experience in yard machines (reclaimers and stackers) or Concentrator mining equipment for a minimum of 3 years
• Fluency in English 

Registration 

• Legal / Professional registration required. 
• N/A

Key Stakeholders 

• HR 
• HSE 
• Operational teams
• Maintenance teams
• Management
• Mining Dispatch
• Train loading peers

Resources Required

•           Computer

•           PPE 

•           Communication tools (radio, cell phone, etc.)     

Role Context and Working Conditions

Global Environment

• Liberian legislation 
• Phases of production 
• Efficient translation: ensuring self, team personal understand areas of responsibility. 

Risk and Safety (Hazards and Risks)

• Mining environment related risks           

Problem Solving & Vulnerabilities

Consequence of poor decision-making

• Climate of the team
• Poor adherence to KPIs
• Inadequate reliability

Impact

Financial indicators

• High

Practices, policy and or strategy

• Medium

Customers (direct or indirect) 

• N/A

Internal stakeholders 

• High

Authority and Responsibility

Who must authorize, review or clear decisions taken with regard to the jobholder’s functions

• Line Manager: Concentrator Engineering Manager

Budget responsibility

• Line Manager: Concentrator Engineering Manager

Limits of decision-making authority.

• Limited to area of expertise with final sign off by line manager 

Personal Competencies / Characteristics Required

• Rule orientation
• Detail and quality orientation
• Organized and systematic 
• Judgement and decision making 
• Able to instruct others.
• Safety awareness
• Communication skills 
• Drive and results orientation
• Resilience and ability to work under pressure.
• Time management

Succession and Career Path

Typical feeder roles for this position.

• Supervisors       

Time to become competent in role after appointment.

6 months