Senior Supervisor Asset Planning - Mobile

Dimensions

Technical Services provides global support to Newmont and its operating businesses across a range of specialized technical functions. Within Technical Services, the Asset Management (AM) function will be responsible for creating and implementing effective global asset strategies, delivering efficient asset planning and strategic insights to drive exceptional global asset performance across Newmont’s portfolio.  It aims to ensure that Newmont’s asset management processes and capabilities are a source of sustainable and considerable competitive advantage for Newmont. This is achieved by focusing on business process standardization, proactive collaboration, competency and capability development, maintenance and reliability practices, relevant global productivity metrics and targeted value-adding asset lifecycle cost improvements. The AM function is focused on delivering value aligned with our philosophy of continuous improvement and rapid replication.

Purpose

The Asset Planning function is responsible for the delivery of effective maintenance plans and schedules designed to maximize the efficiency of site maintenance teams and drive improved equipment performance. The Asset Planning General Supervisor will be responsible for managing a central team of Asset Planners in preparing short, medium or long term maintenance plans and schedules and managing the site-based Work Management Coordinators to ensure timely arrival of parts and execution of work orders.

Key outcomes include:

• Provide direct management of a team of Asset Planners and Work Management Coordinators to support the preparation of long and short-term plans and schedules to optimize costs, improve efficiency and drive equipment reliability and availability for a mine or process department.
• Manage the relationship between site execution and central planning teams to support safe and efficient execution of the plan

Essential Duties

Safety and Health

• Proactively demonstrates Newmont’s core values in all aspects of work
• Actively support Newmont’s safety standards and improvement initiatives

Manages Planning and Scheduling Process

• Manages asset planners in the preparation of short, medium and long term maintenance plans (to be executed in the 2+ week range) based on site priority, focused on reducing down-time and maintenance costs
• Manages asset planners in the development of plans for resources (parts and materials, equipment, tools, and labor) for execution of maintenance plans
• Manages work management coordinators to ensure strong engagement between site and central teams and to support site execution teams
• Promote a culture of reliability in the planning process to reduced unplanned work and re-work Ensure frequent and collaborative communication between Asset Planners and on-site Work Management Coordinators to develop and transition draft schedules to sites teams
• Coordinates with Supply Chain team in order to ensure timely ordering and allocation of parts and materials

Essential Duties (continued)

Monitors Adherence to Plan and Identifies Improvement Areas

• Ensures and monitors the correct use of the ERP systems
• Monitor adherence to planning and scheduling processes and reviews performance KPI’s with asset planners
• Monitors planning and scheduling KPIs and targets including deviations from maintenance plan and communicates insights to Regional Planning leads
• Collaborate with Strategic planning and OSN teams to identify needs for equipment strategies or Life Cycle Cost Models reviews and ensure updates are rolled out
• Develops and distributes compliance to schedule, work process metrics and backlog reports to site and central AM stakeholders
• Continuously identify and drive opportunities to improve planning activities and Implement best practise updates and changes

Support talent management for Asset Planners

• Provide input into and implement global talent management strategy and pipeline for Asset Planners  and Work Management Coordinators including identifying and addressing training needs
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and development for Asset Planner and Work Management Coordinator direct reports

The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.   

Training & Experience

Knowledge:

• Thorough knowledge of maintenance principles and industry standards
• Thorough knowledge of the work management process
• Thorough knowledge of planning and scheduling maintenance activities
• Thorough knowledge of performance measures and their interpretation

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a heavy industry
• Experience with manual and computerized maintenance planning systems
• Experience leading a team and implementing Asset Management principles and best practices

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and ability to drive performance improvement initiatives in a complex and global organization
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to effectively communicate both in person and virtually
• An ability to quickly assess information to diagnose problems and opportunities, with a track record of strong professional judgement and critical thinking
• An ability to manage tasks both in-person and virtually
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders across different functions and between site and central teams 
• Demonstrated ability to create data-driven business decisions
• The ability to work flexibly to meet the frequent out of normal office hours requirements of leading a globally diverse team
• Ability to work collaboratively in a high performing, multi-disciplined, diverse team
• Bilingualism French/English required

Working Conditions

• Position may be office based or remote
• Position may be required to travel domestically and internationally
• Flexible hours required to accommodate global nature of work.

Interested qualified candidates should send their resume via the company's Web site at www.newmont.com/careers no later than April 6, 2023.