Fixed Plant Maintenance Planner
Skeena Resources LimitedSkeena Gold + Silver Limited is a Canadian mining company with a portfolio of exploration and development projects located in northwest British Columbia, Canada. Our current focus is on the revitalization of the high-grade, past-producing Eskay Creek gold-silver mine. Skeena is committed to leading the industry in reconciliation, diversity, and inclusion and we work in close collaboration with our
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Indigenous partners, leveraging their traditional knowledge and respect for the land.
As a Skeena employee, you will become part of a dynamic, innovative, and results-driven work environment. Together, alongside colleagues of diverse backgrounds and experience you will help us operate safely, protect the environment, positively contribute to our local communities and build a state of the art mine in Canada. Come join our team to be a part of this amazing opportunity!
Job Title: Fixed Plant Maintenance Planner
Reporting directly to the Mill Maintenance Superintendent, the Fixed Plant Maintenance Planner is responsible for developing safe, efficient, and executable maintenance work plans for the mill’s fixed plant assets. The role plans both mechanical and electrical/instrumentation work, ensuring labour, materials, tools, technical information, permits, isolation requirements, and external services are identified and available after work is scheduled. Working closely with maintenance supervisors, trades, operations, reliability, supply chain, engineering, and contractors, the Planner supports commissioning, ramp-up, shutdowns, and steady-state operations through disciplined work management and effective use of the CMMS. You’ll be part of a high-performing team where your ideas matter, your skills grow, and your work shapes the future of Eskay Creek.
Responsibilities (including but not limited to):
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling:
• Develop complete, field-executable job plans for corrective, preventive, predictive, and project maintenance on fixed plant mechanical and electrical/instrumentation assets.
• Define job scope, work sequence, craft requirements, estimated labour hours, crew size, tools, lifting and access requirements, consumables, test equipment, permits, isolations, and quality-control steps.
• Plan mechanical work including crushers, conveyors, screens, pumps, piping, tanks, process equipment, lubrication systems, and related structural components.
• Plan electrical and instrumentation work including motors, variable-frequency drives, motor control centres, switchgear, power distribution, field instruments, control valves, analyzers, communication systems, PLC/DCS interfaces, and associated testing or calibration.
• Conduct field walkdowns with supervisors, trades, operations, engineering, and vendors to validate job scope, site conditions, hazards, access, isolation points, and execution constraints.
• Build and maintain job plan templates, task lists, maintenance routes, standard job plans, work instructions, and work packages in the CMMS.
• Review incoming work requests for clarity, priority, asset identification, planning requirements, and readiness; return incomplete requests for clarification and convert approved requests into planned work orders.
• Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog and identify work that is ready to schedule based on labour, material, operational, and site-access requirements.
• Support weekly and longer-range scheduling by providing accurate job durations, craft-loading requirements, dependencies, and ready-to-schedule work packages.
• Prepare integrated work packages for planned shutdowns, major component replacements, commissioning activities, and other complex maintenance events.
Work Management, Materials, and Coordination:
• Identify and reserve required parts, serialized components, repairable spares, special tools, rentals, vendor support, and contractor services; confirm availability after work is released for scheduling.
• Work with supply chain and warehouse personnel to r