Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator

Northern Star Resources Limited (ASX: NST) is an Australian ASX 100 gold producer with three Tier-1 world-class projects located in highly prospective and low sovereign risk regions of Australia and North America. Northern Star is the largest Australian gold producer and among the top 10 gold miners globally. The company invests in building a strong asset base through strategic acquisitions and aggressive exploration to extend mine lives and generate value for shareholders.

About the role

The Reliability, Planning, & Project Coordinator reports to the Maintenance Superintendent and leads the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling, reliability, and project function to improve plant availability, asset reliability, work management discipline, project completion, and maintenance execution readiness across the Pogo processing plant.

Key accountabilities include:

• Establishing and maintaining a disciplined maintenance planning and scheduling cycle
• Improving preventative maintenance compliance and controlling backlog
• Enhancing work order quality and strengthening reliability routines
• Converting reliability actions into practical, executable work
• Providing leadership to planners, reliability engineers, and support roles
• Ensuring maintenance work is identified, scoped, planned, scheduled, executed, and closed out to a high standard

Success will be demonstrated by improved maintenance discipline, reliable maintenance KPIs, effective weekly planning and reliability routines, improved shutdown planning, reduced reactive work, enhanced critical asset performance, and practical defect elimination of repeat or high-impact failures.

The role requires strong field engagement, active coaching, accountability, and close integration between Maintenance, Operations, Warehouse/Supply, Contractors, and other site functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Processing Maintenance planning, scheduling, and reliability function
• Oversee capital project delegation, scope, and execution accountability
• Establish and maintain a disciplined weekly planning and scheduling cycle
• Improve work identification, scoping, planning, scheduling, execution, and close-out processes
• Embed a plan-do-check-act approach across work management and reliability routines
• Review, cleanse, and control maintenance backlog, including aged, duplicate, obsolete, and poorly scoped work orders
• Improve PM compliance, particularly for critical assets and statutory maintenance
• Review PM strategies and recommend improvements to task quality, frequency, and execution discipline
• Develop and maintain a practical maintenance KPI dashboard
• Monitor and report on planned work ratio, reactive work, schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog health, work order quality, and reliability performance
• Lead bad actor reviews and defect elimination for repeat failures and high-impact equipment
• Ensure reliability actions are practical, prioritised, assigned, resourced, and closed out
• Lead shutdown planning, including cadence accountability, major work planning, materials readiness, contractor readiness, and post-shutdown close-out
• Support critical spares reviews and improvement of bills of materials
• Coach planners, reliability engineers, supervisors, and maintenance leaders in work management discipline

Requirements

• Significant maintenance planning and reliability leadership experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry, or fixed plant operations
• Strong understanding of gold processing or similar mineral processing plants
• Demonstrated experience improving maintenance work management in a reactive or underperforming environment
• Experience leading planners, schedulers, reliability engineers, or maintenance improvement teams
• Practical knowledge of preventative maintenance, backlog management, weekly scheduling, shutdown planning, defect elimination, root cause analysis, maintenance KPIs, and CMMS discipline
• Experience with Pronto, SAP, AMT, or similar CMMS (Pronto experience highly regarded)
• Strong communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills
• Practical, field-focused leadership style with the ability to build trust quickly
• Ability to work with imperfect data while improving discipline, systems, and reporting quality
• Remote mining experience is desirable
• Gold processing experience is desirable

Benefits

• Permanent position with extended mine-life offering job security
• Excellent remuneration package including bonuses, insurances, 401k, and paid leave
• Ongoing development opportunities and career growth within a company that invests in its people
• Vibrant on-site work environment with a successful and productive team

Schedule

15 days on, 13 days off rotating schedule of days and nights, up to 12 hours per day or more at a remote campsite. Employees are required to stay on-site at the company-provided camp during the work rotation.

Work Environment

• Extreme and changing weather conditions, including dust, mud, varying noise levels, and varying degrees of light
• Work may occur in confined areas and around artificial lighting
• Camp facilities include dining service, games room, exercise & weight room, sauna, and accommodation rooms
• Dormitory rooms feature a landline phone, internet, and cable TV; cell service available via Wi-Fi
• Company-provided bus service to and from Fairbanks, Delta Junction, and Tok, Alaska