Maintenance Planning Superintendent at Metso

Following requirements to manage the role

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of planners, fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Drive a safety-first culture, ensuring that the planning department consistently achieves its annual health, safety, and environmental targets.
• Plan, prepare, and coordinate major shutdowns and turnarounds, ensuring minimal production loss and full alignment with operational requirements.
• Assume direct responsibility for the preparation of shutdown reports, working in close collaboration with relevant departments.
• Oversee the preparation of Bills of Materials (BoMs) in accordance with OEM manuals, ensuring accurate identification of required materials.
• Act as the primary liaison between the client and Metso, facilitating the identification of Metso spare parts and supporting Metso sales and services activities.
• Monitor daily activities and material requirements, providing guidance and recommendations on inventory management, including review of min/max stock levels when necessary.
• Support clients in the identification of critical spare parts such as valves, agitators, and pumps, ensuring operational readiness.
• Collaborate with and advise the Reliability Department on the development and implementation of new maintenance strategies.
• Identify and pursue improvement opportunities in collaboration with Metso Sales and Production Line representatives.
• Actively participate in daily planning meetings, ensuring the Planning Department is represented and aligned with operational priorities.
• Provide expert advice to the client regarding optimization and increased efficiency in the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS – Oracle).
• Demonstrate proficiency in the use of MS Project for scheduling, planning, and progress tracking.
• Read and interpret Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), equipment manuals, piping isometrics, and technical drawings to support effective planning and execution.

Basic requirements

• Excellent Service attitude, strong customer service focus
• Proactive safety Mindset
• Strong maintenance planning experience, high problem-solving skills
• Experience from greenfield and brownfield sites, able to understand CMMS data requirements, capable to manage projects

Technical competence

• At least ten >10 years relevant experience from metallurgical/mineral/processing plant or related industry.
• Solid competence in planning and knowledge of gold processing or similar plants.
• Knowledge of procedures for routine inspection and maintenance and use of plant operating, maintenance, and safety manuals. Able to build preventive maintenance system at site.
• Understanding of Failure Analysis Techniques. Understanding of Maintenance Management techniques and systems, Data collection and systematic analysis
• Detailed understanding of shutdown practices. Good knowledge of procedures for start-up, operating routines, emergencies, routine inspection and maintenance.
• Strong computer skills
• English skills (written and spoken)