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The Opportunity

Due to recent internal growth and a drive to consistently improve, the Wodgina Processing Facility is looking to add a Long-Term Maintenance Planner to its site-based planning team. This will be fulltime position working on a 4/3 or 8/6 roster at our Wodgina Processing Facility and reporting into the Superintendent for Planning.  

The Long-Term Planner will be responsible for controlling effective asset maintenance plans and managing the long-term requirements and health of our Pronto CMMS system. The long-term planner owns the long-term planning, budgeting, and rolling medium term planning processes within the Wodgina Processing Team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the annual zero-based budget for maintenance across Fixed Plant Processing
• Quarterly reforecasting of maintenance budget in line with business demands 
• Plan all major maintenance activities for Fixed Plant Processing
• Develop detailed scopes of work for maintenance packages  
• Provide/maintain a 16-week plan in Pronto and provide 12-month forecasts 
• Ensure that key inputs such as asset condition, usage and existing strategies are considered when developing a long-term plan 
• Drive standardisation and improvement of long-term planning process across departments
• Works with maintenance planning teams to ensure that maintenance activities are effectively coordinated and integrated to balance asset integrity with production requirements. 
• Labour forecasts for the budgeting processes to support the 5- and 25-year plans 
• Ensuring all statutory and regulatory requirements are captured in the new maintenance strategies ensuring compliance to operate standards.   

What is Required: 

• Minimum 3 years maintenance planning & long-term planning experience
• Extensive experience in maintenance budget development
• Experience or background with the operation and maintenance of processing equipment
• Heavy knowledge and understanding of Asset Management principles & Standards and enterprise risk, safety, quality & assurance business systems
• Australian Standards / Legislative obligations across various disciplines
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Proficiency in planning software such as Pronto or similar
• Ability to manage time and meet deadline requirements and ability to adapt and work effectively within a variety of situations and with various groups and individuals
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively under pressure and to deadlines, both autonomously and as part of a team
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and sound collaborative communication skills
• Abilities in risk management, resource and budget planning, and understanding of safety regulations are critical
• Excellent communication, leadership and decision-making skills. Additionally, analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and organising skills are also important

About Wodgina

The Wodgina lithium operation is located 120km south of Port Hedland in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. MinRes manages all mining operations at Wodgina, including a spodumene concentrate processing plant with an annual capacity of 900,000 tonnes (SC5.5).

About Mineral Resources (MinRes)

MinRes is a leading diversified resources company with extensive operations in lithium, iron ore, energy, and mining services across Western Australia. With a focus on people and innovation, MinRes has become one of the ASX’s best‑performing companies since listing in 2006.

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