If you are a skilled Reliability Engineer who enjoys working on cutting-edge projects, consider joining our team at Hecla Greens Creek Mining Company, the largest producing underground silver mine in North America. As part of our team, you will lead all maintenance planning efforts for the Greens Creek Mine Site, ensuring maximum cost benefit while minimizing production interruptions. You will have the opportunity to work on various engineering projects such as optimizing mobile maintenance equipment, enhancing electrical systems, and improving fixed maintenance systems. You will be involved in implementing innovative strategies for efficient maintenance planning. You will oversee the coordination of our Centralized Maintenance Department, taking charge of mobile maintenance, electrical, and the fixed maintenance planning processes. Your role will be pivotal in maintaining Greens Creek's high standards of safety and contributing to our commitment of excellence in underground mining.

About Us
The Greens Creek Mine, located on Admiralty Island 18 miles south of Juneau, is an underground polymetallic mine operating since 1989, employing approximately 500 people. The mine is owned and operated by Hecla Mining Company, headquartered in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Established in 1891, Hecla has a rich history as a distinguished and respected precious metals producer. Winner of numerous safety and environmental awards, Greens Creek is seeking new team members committed to professional growth and success.

Here's what you can expect in this role:

• Training first. Your journey starts with a dedicated focus on safety. Within the first 4 days, you'll undergo MSHA training, ensuring a solid foundation in safety protocols. Department-level training follows, not just covering basic tasks but emphasizing safety practices as well.
• You'll offer your technical expertise and guidance to support the team in maintaining and optimizing equipment reliability. Your role involves establishing and upholding Maintenance Planning and Reliability standards in alignment with the site's business plan.
• You will spearhead weekly planning meetings, collaborating with maintenance and operations teams. Your responsibility includes updating the CMMS, managing work orders, and ensuring planned schedules are accurate, contributing to the overall efficiency of operations.
• You will organize external service provider visits for condition monitoring and maintenance services not achievable with on-site resources.
• You will regularly review the spares holding policy for maintenance spares and consumables, adjusting purchasing and inventory control settings to reduce reliance on airfreight.
• You'll collaborate with the Maintenance Manager to establish tracking and reporting systems for KPIs, facilitating quick analysis of maintenance, breakdowns, costs, and operating performance.
• You will help to foster a strong safety culture, promoting and exemplifying safe work practices throughout the organization.
• You will be a part of team you can rely on; a team that will have your back

If you're interested in this role, apply on our website at this link: http://www.hecla.com/current-openings/ 

We have a two-part interview process. If you are selected, our hiring managers will reach out to you via phone call to get to know you and your skill set a little better. Then, if you are selected to move forward, you will be invited to come for a site interview to ensure that we are fit for you, and you are a fit for us.

Applicants must possess current authorization to work in the United States. Hecla Greens Creek is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Please visit Hecla's website at www.hecla.com and our recruiting page at http://www.hecla.com/current-openings/

POSITION SUMMARY
As the Centralized Maintenance Planning/Reliability Superintendent you will be reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for all maintenance planning for the Greens Creek Mine Site to ensure maximum cost benefit while minimizing the interruption to production. This is to include all Centralized Maintenance Departments which includes mobile maintenance, electrical and the fixed teams

SAFETY, HEALTH & ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Include, but are not limited to:
All Hecla personnel shall strive to achieve best practice in safety and health, and assist in the control of incidents, injuries and loss. Duties include, but are not limited to:
• Complying with all necessary requirements put in place to prevent incidents, injuries or losses;
• Ensuring the safety and health of themselves and others in the workplace by being responsible for their actions and taking due care while performing their work;
• Identifying, eliminating, and reporting hazards as soon as practicable;
• Reporting incidents and accidents as soon as practicable;
• Disclosing all information regarding incidents and cooperating in incident investigations;
• Assisting in the resolution of health and safety matters in a positive and timely manner;
• Using and maintaining PPE;
• Providing suggestions for improving work processes;
• Assisting Management by supporting change to achieve desired targets;
• Ensuring that plant and equipment operate within their safe working limits;
• Ensuring that correct equipment is used for the job;
• Participating in risk assessment methodology;
• Participating in safety initiatives;
• Receiving training and instruction as required; and
• Maintaining good housekeeping standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Establish and maintain Maintenance Planning standards and policies in conjunction with the Maintenance Manager to achieve the site's business plan.
• Establish and maintain Maintenance Reliability standards and policies in conjunction with the Maintenance Manager to achieve the site's business plan.
• Conduct weekly planning meetings with maintenance and operations and update the CMMS accordingly including the raising and closing of work orders and entry of planned start and finish dates.
• Training and Coaching of planners in the preparation of work packages and all other planning functions for each maintenance work group within the organization.
• Help establish reliability centered maintenance functions to drive the company forwards.
• Prepare and issue shutdown plans and ensure that all resources required for shutdowns are mobilized, planned, and scheduled to meet the timelines agreed.
• Play a coordinating role during shutdowns to ensure that over-runs are kept to a minimum
• Organize in accordance with company procedures, external service provider's visits to site for condition monitoring and any other maintenance services not able to be done using on-site resources.
• Regularly review the spares holding policy for maintenance spares and consumables and adjust the purchasing and inventory control settings as required to reduce reliance on airfreight.
• Attend regular meetings with operations and maintenance personnel to review equipment performance, develop remedial actions and improvement plans for cost and performance.
• Support the cost-effective achievement of monthly and annual production targets (ore tonnes and mill throughput) in accordance with the budget.
• Assist in the development of the departmental budget, with effort towards producing a Zero-based maintenance budget.
• Record Meeting minutes which include a list of actions and responsible persons and timelines for action when required.
• Develop a succession plan for all maintenance planning positions with clear competencies to be achieved and timelines for achievement.
• Work with the Maintenance Manager to develop tracking & reporting systems for agreed KPI's to allow accurate and quick analysis of maintenance, breakdowns, costs, and operating performance of all site equipment and fixed assets.
• Maintain all planning, reliability and maintenance functionality within the CMMS.
• Oversee all planning templates/Standard job functions.
• Oversee all predictive maintenance templates including adopted technologies.
• Oversee all statistical entries into the CMMS

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Self-motivated, proactive, detail-oriented, mechanically inclined, problem solver. Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint. Good attention to detail with the ability to recognize discrepancies. Must be able to work independently as well as part of a team. Strong interpersonal and organization/time management skills

Preferred - Knowledge of computerized maintenance management information systems - Experience in Ellipse or similar computerized maintenance systems.

Responsible for all routine data entry and withdrawal associated with maintenance, most of which is associated with the Computerized Maintenance Management Information System. As a member of the Mobile Maintenance team duties will include but are not limited to:

• Maintain equipment statistics - data entry of meter hours, job cards
• Ensure high quality data is collected and integrity of the data
• Work closely with team members to identify data related problems and solve them
• Oil sample collection • Prepare maintenance reports and assist with preventive maintenance optimization
• General administrative duties such as filing, typing, copying, recording meeting minute, etc.

Other duties may be assigned.

Procurement
• Maintain warehouse stock in conjunction with warehouse personnel and handle maintenance procurement as needed
• Maintain Ellipse systems for entire process plant.
• Cost control and reporting, budgeting, backlogs, vendor support.
• Maintain critical spares, consignments and parts listings.

Asset Management
• APL / warehouse stock; identify equipment without APL; identify equipment that is incomplete APL
• Record APL of equipment without; record updates to equipment without APL; update warehouse stock to match APL research; create Microsoft spread sheet parts list; identify slow moving stock; and identify stock that needs to be made obsolete because of no longer having equipment; identify parts and equipment with abnormal spare parts and correct; review in stock quantities are over stocked, understocked or sufficient.

Assist Supply Chain
• Safety Health & Environmental Analysis (Shea) document developments; initial sourcing and procurement; minimize stock warehouse satellite accumulation areas; identify repair and return items and tag and initiate repair with the warehouse; and organize all arriving Direct Issue procurement parts and record location.

Enterprise Resource Planning system
• Generate work orders; maintain Birth certificates on all equipment and record modifications to equipment.

Refine overall maintenance program:
• Implement process-based maintenance programs.
• Monitor and review standards and performance guidelines, including predictive/conditions monitoring programs and applications.
• Incorporate multi-discipline programs to enhance overall maintenance program.
• Coordinate with operations, engineering, and outside services for maintenance and system upgrades

Preventive maintenance performance:
• Maintain and track all lube and pm scheduling using Ellipse and data base.
• Maintain all safety/environmental oriented pm certifications and schedules.
• Advise on maintenance and operations procedures

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
A minimum of 10 years' experience in large scale mineral processing or mining environment including at least 5 years in senior maintenance planning roles. (Underground experience is Preferred.)
• Maintenance planning or maintenance management is desirable.
• Prior experience required in the use of CMMS.
• Prior experience on all facets of Fixed Plant Maintenance, Mobile Maintenance and Electrical
• Proven leadership skills demonstrated by progressive responsibility throughout career.
• Demonstrated record of developing and coaching employees in development needs.
• Must be able to demonstrate the values of integrity, respect, and collaboration.
• Demonstrated commitment to ensuring a safe working environment.
• CRL and or CMRP

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, employees may be frequently required to stand, walk, or sit for extended periods of time; use hand and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb and balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The employee must be able to talk and hear.

Abilities Tested

Lifting Abilities You can	Lift with 2 hands from floor to knuckles: 20 lbs x 2. Lift with 1 hand from floor to knuckles: 20 lbs x 2. Lift with 2 hands from floor to waist: 20 lbs x 2. Lift with 2 hands from floor to shoulders: 20 lbs x 2.
Carrying Abilities You can:	Carry with 2 hands at self-selected height: 20 lbs for a distance of 100 feet. Carry with 1 hand at self-selected height: 10 lbs for a distance of 100 feet
Stair / Ladder Climbing Abilities You can:	Stair Climb Test: Climb up and down a total of 12 steps. Ladder Climb Test: Climb up and down 8 rungs.
Carrying and Stair Climbing Abilities You can:	Carry 20 lbs with 1 hand at a self-selected height and stair climb (ascend/descend) 12 steps x 2.
Agilities You can:	Stooping and Twisting: From standing, perform alternate toe touches x 3 to each side.Kneeling: From standing, kneel on one knee, return to full standing, and then kneel on opposite knee. Repeat kneeling test x 3, each knee. Sustained Squatting: From standing, lower body into a functional squat position and hold posture for 30 seconds. Repetitive Squatting: Repeat squats x 3 reps

Other Physical Demands Vision - Constant:
• Able to judge distances and spatial relationships to avoid accidents while driving and walking underground
• Have clarity of vision while operating machinery, reading gauges, and placing tools
• Have clarity of vision for distances while navigating within the mine and access roads efficiently and safely
• Able to adjust varying points of reference while safely navigating the terrain, maintaining awareness of traffic, and operating tools and machinery
• Able to identify vehicles, machinery, and people in peripheral vision

Speaking - Occasional:
• Able to clearly communicate with co-workers and supervisors on the radio and in person

Hearing - Occasional:
• Must wear hearing protection while working in the mine

WORK ENVIRONMENT & JOB SCHEDULE
Employees may be frequently exposed to mill work environment; outside weather conditions, wet and/or humid conditions; extreme cold, extreme heat, potentially hazardous wildlife; moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; explosives and vibration. The noise level in most work environments is usually very loud. This position is based in Juneau, AK and would work a 4 on 3 off schedule.

ABOUT US
The Greens Creek Mine, located on Admiralty Island, 18 miles south of Juneau, is an underground polymetallic mine employing approximately 500 people. The mine is owned and operated by Hecla Mining Company, headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Established in 1891, Hecla has a rich history as a distinguished and respected precious metals producer. Winner of numerous safety and environmental awards, Greens Creek is seeking new team members committed to professional growth and success.

Community
Juneau, Alaska's capital, is the third largest city in the state. Like Alaska, Juneau is full of contrasts, a sophisticated cosmopolitan city in the heart of the Tongass National Forest. Nestled at the base of mountains overlooking the Gastineau Channel, Juneau is surrounded by intercoastal waterways, lush rain forests, rugged mountainsides, and awe-inspiring glaciers. This small city has it all, the adventure of the "last frontier" as well as a good education system, year-round cultural and sports activities, a wide variety of entertainment, world class fishing and wildlife viewing, temperate weather, and a strong sense of community. Juneau is rich in mining history and Greens Creek is proud to contribute to that heritage by operating in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.

Compensation & Benefits
Hecla Greens Creek offers competitive pay based on experience and an excellent low-cost benefits package for medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance as well as other coverages such as disability coverage and life insurance. Retirement benefits include a pension plan and 401(k) with company match.

APPLICATIONS & RESUMES
Applicants must possess current authorization to work in the United States. Resumes must be attached to the ADP Application.

Hecla Greens Creek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please visit Hecla’s website at www.hecla-mining.com and our recruiting page at http://www.hecla-mining.com/careers/