Underground Maintenance Planner

Make an impact at Canada’s premier mining company.

When you advance your career at New Gold, you are joining a Canadian-focused intermediate gold mining company engaged in the operation, development and exploration of mineral properties. Our mission is be a leading intermediate gold producer, driving responsible and profitable mining in a way that creates sustainable value for our employee, shareholders, the communities in which we live and work and our environment. New Gold would like to acknowledge the lands and resources of the Treaty 3 Territory and respect the traditional values of our First Nation partners. To learn more about New Gold, visit our website at www.newgold.com. To learn more about our culture and people practices, visit the Career page.

New Gold attracts and hires highly skilled individuals. By joining our team, you can look forward to:

- A stimulating values-based work environment

- A culture of collaboration and inclusion

- Inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders

- Career development opportunities

- A deeply rooted commitment to responsible mining, health and safety and community engagement

- A competitive total compensation program

- A comprehensive benefits package including a retirement savings plan

Rainy River Mine

Situated in beautiful northwestern Ontario, 65 km northwest of Fort Frances, the Rainy River Mine is an open pit and underground, gold and silver producing, residential mine site.

The Rainy River Mine, located adjacent to the Ontario / Minnesota border is 65 Kilometers northwest of Fort Frances, Ontario and is situated half way between Winnipeg, Manitoba and Thunder Bay, Ontario The area is home to more than 130 species of birds and large populations of moose, black bear and deer. If you enjoy outdoor activities including hunting, fishing, winter sports and lake country then this is an area you will love to live and work in.

Applicants who reside in Northwestern Ontario and have experience working in a cross-cultural environment, coupled with knowledge of the unique challenges and opportunities presented to those living in the Northwest Ontario, are assets. Hiring priority will be given to qualified applicants who are beneficiaries of the Impact Benefits Agreement (IBA) and to qualified applicants residing in the Northwest Ontario communities. (Indigenous) Members must clearly identify their status on the online job application and resume if they wish to receive priority consideration.

About The Role

Position: Underground Maintenance Planner

Schedule: 14/14

Position Reports To: Senior Reliability Specialist

Position Overview

Reporting to the Senior Reliability Specialist, the successful applicant will be maintaining and developing the predictive/preventative maintenance program for the underground mobile equipment and fixed assets.

Key Responsibilities

- Plan and schedule maintenance for the underground equipment fleet, comprising of Caterpillar, Maclean, Sandvik, Kovatera, Manitou, and Toyota equipment.

- Create preventative, predictive, and regulatory maintenance plans in SAP.

- Track work order compliance and ensure all regulatory work is executed each month.

- Lead planning and scheduling meetings with maintenance Superintendents, Supervisors, and contractor work groups.

- Update equipment Bill of Materials.

- Perform parts criticality assessments and submit inventory requests for critical components.

- Review completed work order packages to create follow up work orders.

- Scan and attach completed hard copy work orders to the work orders in SAP.

- Work with contractor technicians and maintenance supervisors to ensure vendor managed inventory usage is accounted for, and components are charged to the correct units.

- Support operations and maintenance to improve equipment reliability.

- Work with reliability team to ensure their concerns and action items are scheduled and executed.

Qualifications

- Journeyman trades ticket is a definite asset.

- Expected to have experience in similar roles and knowledge of mobile maintenance disciplines.

- Previous experience with SAP or similar CMMS is a definite asset.

- Good computer skills and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs is an asset.

- Proven communication skills both verbal and written.

- Must be extremely organized, have good interpersonal skills, be cooperative and able to work with cross-functional teams.

- Employment is subject to successfully completing New Gold’s pre-employment drug and alcohol testing.

- Must be authorized to work in Canada

Why New Gold?

- Highly competitive base salary, compensation programs and a quarterly incentive program

- Extended Health & Dental Benefit

- Short-term and long-term disability insurance benefit

- Defined match contribution to group registered retirement savings account

We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process. New Gold does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a forma contractual arrangement with the Company. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by New Gold will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.

Inclusion, Equal Opportunity, Accessibility

New Gold is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans’ status, Indigenous status or any other legally protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request.