Shutdown Planner at Perseus Mining Limited

Perseus Mining (Tanzania) Limited is seeking an experienced Shutdown Planner to support the safe, efficient, and well-coordinated delivery of plant shutdowns in Mwanza, Tanzania. The role is focused on minimizing production downtime, controlling maintenance costs, and improving equipment reliability and plant availability.

The Shutdown Planner will support the planning and scheduling team by developing integrated shutdown scopes, coordinating resources, preparing detailed work packages, monitoring readiness and progress, and maintaining accurate maintenance information within the CMMS. The position requires strong planning and coordination skills, together with experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry, or a similar operational environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Comply with the Company's HSE Management System, site procedures, and applicable legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Promote a positive safety culture and encourage safe work practices among employees, contractors, and other personnel.
• Identify, communicate, and address potential hazards and unsafe conditions.
• Participate in safety meetings, toolbox meetings, incident reporting, and investigations.
• Participate in formal and informal risk assessments and ensure identified risks and controls are addressed before work begins.
• Operate vehicles, mobile equipment, and plant only when appropriately trained, competent, and authorized.
• Promote safety awareness among maintenance and processing personnel.
• Support the Maintenance Department's target of zero Lost Time Injuries (LTIs).
• Build positive and professional relationships with colleagues, contractors, and stakeholders.
• Communicate shutdown priorities, schedules, work scopes, constraints, changes, and critical activities clearly.
• Coordinate 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.
• Work collaboratively with Supervisors, Planners, Coordinators, Engineers, contractors, and other personnel.
• Comply with company policies, procedures, and workplace standards.
• Support the Planning Superintendent and Planning Coordinator in developing and maintaining the site's shutdown planning and scheduling process.
• Review approved maintenance work requests and proposed shutdown activities to develop and maintain comprehensive shutdown scopes.
• Coordinate with Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Operations, Engineering, Reliability, HSE, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain integrated shutdown schedules covering activity sequencing, dependencies, milestones, resource requirements, work fronts, and critical-path activities.
• Ensure shutdown work orders and work packages include scope, job steps, labour, duration, materials, tools, equipment, access requirements, permits, isolation requirements, and specialist services.
• Identify and monitor shutdown planning constraints and coordinate appropriate actions to resolve them.
• Coordinate with Stores, Procurement, and Supply Chain to ensure critical spares, materials, consumables, tools, equipment, and specialist services are available before shutdown.
• Support contractor planning and readiness, including work scopes, resource requirements, mobilisation, access, materials, documentation, and execution interfaces.
• Participate in shutdown risk assessments and planning reviews.
• Monitor shutdown readiness and ensure activities meet agreed scope, resource, material, documentation, and scheduling requirements.
• Monitor shutdown progress against approved schedules and support corrective actions when delays or constraints arise.
• Support daily shutdown meetings by providing accurate information on progress, outstanding activities, critical-path tasks, constraints, and recovery actions.
• Coordinate approved changes to shutdown scope and schedules and ensure changes are properly documented.
• Maintain accurate shutdown planning data within the CMMS, including work orders, job plans, task lists, labour estimates, durations, materials, and work status.
• Support shutdown cost estimating, budget preparation, cost tracking, and forecasting.
• Participate in post-shutdown reviews covering schedule performance, scope completion, cost performance, safety performance, resource utilization, delays, and lessons learned.
• Capture lessons learned and incorporate performance data into future shutdown plans and maintenance strategies.
• Prepare and distribute shutdown planning and performance reports covering readiness, schedule progress, backlog, critical-path status, resource utilization, costs, scope changes, and completion performance.
• Ensure shutdown planning documentation and records remain accurate, complete, and up to date.
• Perform other duties within the scope of the position as directed by management.

Qualifications required:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in maintenance planning, with significant experience in shutdown, turnaround, campaign, or major maintenance planning.
• Experience in mining, mineral processing, heavy industry, or a similar operational environment is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Project to develop and manage detailed shutdown schedules.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Practical experience in shutdown planning, scheduling, work management, and execution readiness.
• Ability to develop and coordinate integrated shutdown scopes and schedules across multiple maintenance disciplines.
• Ability to develop detailed and executable shutdown work packages.
• Strong understanding of activity sequencing, dependencies, milestones, critical-path activities, work fronts, and schedule optimization.
• Ability to identify, monitor, and resolve shutdown constraints involving 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 and shutdown management.
• Ability to analyze maintenance history, backlog, previous shutdown performance, equipment condition, resource requirements, and work-order data.
• Good understanding of shutdown safety requirements, risk assessments, isolation/LOTO, permit requirements, access requirements, and safe work practices.
• Ability to monitor shutdown progress, identify delays and emerging risks, and support schedule recovery 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 deadlines.
• Mechanical, Electrical, Engineering, Technical Trade, or another relevant maintenance qualification is desirable.
• Experience planning major mining or mineral-processing shutdowns, turnarounds, overhauls, or major maintenance campaigns is desirable.
• Knowledge of lubrication, condition monitoring, vibration analysis, alignment, balancing, and other mechanical reliability practices is desirable.
• Experience with maintenance reliability, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), failure analysis, and continuous improvement is desirable.

How to Apply

Interested applicants should submit their CV by email to [email protected].

The email subject line should be:

Shutdown Planner

Applicants should clearly identify the advertised position in their application and submit their applications before the deadline.

• Salary: Negotiable

The Shutdown Planner opportunity is suitable for an experienced maintenance planning professional with strong shutdown scheduling, coordination, cost control, and CMMS experience. Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit their applications before 21 September 2026.