Shut Down Planner at Perseus Mining Tanzania

Perseus Mining (Tanzania) Limited (SMLC) is seeking a Shut down Planner .

The Shutdown Planner is a key contributor to delivering safe, efficient, and well-coordinated plant shutdowns that minimize production downtime, control maintenance costs, and maximize equipment reliability and plant availability.

Key Responsibilities:

Management of Safety, Environment, & Community Relations

• Comply with the Company's Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) Management System, site procedures, and all applicable legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrate a strong duty of care and actively promote a positive safety culture by leading by example and encouraging safe work practices among employees, contractors, and other personnel.
• Maintain a safe working environment within the area of responsibility and actively identify, communicate, and address potential hazards and unsafe conditions.
• Participate in departmental safety meetings, toolbox meetings, incident reporting, and investigations as required.
• Conduct and participate in formal and informal risk assessments, ensuring identified risks and controls are appropriately addressed before work is undertaken.
• Operate vehicles, mobile equipment, and plant only when appropriately trained, competent, and authorized in accordance with Company requirements.
• Promote safety awareness among maintenance and processing personnel and support initiatives that continuously improve HSE performance.
• Lost Time Injury (LTI) performance – Target: Zero LTIs within the Maintenance Department.

People Management

• Build and maintain positive, professional working relationships with colleagues, contractors, and stakeholders, supporting effective teamwork, communication, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with all stakeholders, ensuring shutdown priorities, schedules, work scopes, constraints, changes, and critical activities are understood and appropriately communicated.
• Coordinate effectively across multidisciplinary teams to ensure alignment of shutdown activities, resources, work fronts, and execution priorities.
• Demonstrate ownership, accountability, initiative, and professionalism when coordinating shutdown planning activities and resolving planning and execution constraints
• Work collaboratively with Supervisors, Planners, Coordinators, Engineers, contractors, and other personnel while respecting defined roles, responsibilities, and reporting lines.
• Comply with all Company policies, procedures, and standards, including the Code of Conduct, Fit for Work, Equal Employment Opportunity, Discrimination, Harassment, and Workplace Bullying policies, and contribute to a positive, inclusive, and safety-focused workplace culture.

Operations

• Support the Planning Superintendent and Planning Coordinator in developing, coordinating, and maintaining the site shutdown planning and scheduling process.
• Review approved maintenance work requests and proposed shutdown activities to develop and maintain a comprehensive shutdown scope, ensuring work is properly justified, prioritized, and aligned with production and maintenance requirements.
• Coordinate with Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Operations, Engineering, Reliability, HSE, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders to ensure shutdown work scopes are complete, aligned, and execution ready.
• Develop and maintain integrated shutdown schedules, including activity sequencing, dependencies, milestones, resource requirements, work fronts, and critical-path activities.
• Ensure shutdown work orders and work packages are fully planned, including scope, job steps, labour, duration, materials, tools, equipment, access requirements, permits, isolation requirements, and specialist services.
• Identify and monitor shutdown planning constraints, including materials, labour, contractors, equipment, access, engineering requirements, permits, isolations, and operational interfaces, and coordinate appropriate actions to resolve them.
• Coordinate with Stores, Procurement, and Supply Chain to ensure the availability of critical spares, materials, consumables, tools, equipment, and specialist services before the shutdown.
• Support contractor planning and readiness by coordinating contractor work scopes, resource requirements, mobilisation requirements, access, materials, documentation, and execution interfaces.
• Participating in shutdown risk assessments and planning reviews to ensure identified risks, controls, isolation requirements, and execution constraints are incorporated into the shutdown plan.
• Monitor shutdown readiness and ensure planned activities meet agreed scope, resource, material, documentation, and scheduling requirements before execution.
• Monitor and report shutdown progress against the approved schedule, identify delays and emerging constraints, and support timely corrective actions to maintain the planned completion and plant restart dates.
• Support daily shutdown meetings and provide accurate information on progress, completed work, outstanding activities, critical-path tasks, constraints, and schedule recovery actions.
• Coordinate changes to the shutdown scope and schedule, ensuring that additions, omissions, and changes are properly assessed, approved, documented, and reflected in the integrated schedule.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date shutdown planning data within the CMMS, including work orders, job plans, task lists, estimated labour, durations, materials, and work status.
• Support shutdown cost estimating, budget preparation, cost tracking, and forecasting, including monitoring planned versus actual labour, materials, contractor costs, and other shutdown expenditure.
• Participate in post-shutdown reviews to assess schedule performance, scope completion, cost performance, safety performance, resource utilisation, delays, constraints, and lessons learned.
• Capture and incorporate shutdown lessons learned and performance data into future shutdown plans, maintenance strategies, job plans, and scheduling standards to support continuous improvement.
• Prepare and distribute shutdown planning and performance reports, including readiness, schedule progress, backlog, critical-path status, resource utilisation, cost, scope changes, and completion performance.
• Ensure shutdown planning documentation and records are accurate, complete, current, and maintained in accordance with Company standards.
• Perform other duties within the scope of the role as directed by management.

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities and Attributes:

Essential

• Minimum five (5) years' experience in maintenance planning, with significant experience in shutdown, turnaround, campaign, or major maintenance planning, preferably within a mining, mineral processing, heavy industry, or similar operational environment.
• Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Project to develop and manage detailed shutdown schedules
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience in shutdown planning, scheduling, work management, and execution readiness.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and coordinate integrated shutdown scopes and schedules covering multiple maintenance disciplines, including Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Operations, and other relevant work streams.
• Ability to develop detailed and executable shutdown work packages, including work scopes, job steps, labour requirements, estimated durations, materials, tools, equipment, access requirements, permits, isolations, and specialist services.
• Strong understanding of activity sequencing, dependencies, milestones, critical-path activities, work fronts, and schedule optimisation.
• Ability to identify, monitor, and resolve shutdown constraints, including labour, materials, equipment, access, engineering requirements, permits, isolations, contractors, and operational interfaces.
• Strong commitment to continuous improvement, schedule performance, cost control, and safe shutdown execution
• Demonstrated experience using a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for work-order management, shutdown work management, and maintenance data management.
• Ability to analyse maintenance history, backlog, previous shutdown performance, equipment condition, resource requirements, and work-order data to develop effective shutdown scopes and schedules.
• Good understanding of shutdown safety requirements, risk assessments, isolation/LOTO, permit requirements, access requirements, and safe work practices.
• Ability to monitor shutdown progress against the approved schedule, identify delays and emerging risks, and support schedule recovery and corrective actions.
• Strong understanding of shutdown cost estimation, budget control, forecasting, and planned-versus-actual cost analysis
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and within fixed shutdown windows and production-driven deadlinesf

Desired

• Mechanical, Electrical, Engineering, Technical Trade, or other relevant maintenance qualification
• Demonstrated experience planning major mining or mineral-processing shutdowns, turnarounds, overhauls, or major maintenance campaigns.
• Knowledge of lubrication, condition monitoring, vibration analysis, alignment, balancing, and other mechanical reliability practices.
• Experience with maintenance reliability, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), failure analysis, and continuous improvement.

Application Mode:

Applications will only be received by email to [email protected] with the advertised job title Shut down Planner as the subject line of the email.

Application close on 21 September 2026