Major Maintenance Planner

Description

Position Summary: This role leads the integration, standardization, and scheduling of major maintenance activities (shutdowns), ensuring consolidated and executable planning across the entire value chain. Key Highlights: 1. Lead the integration and standardization of major maintenance activities (shutdowns). 2. Develop robust master schedules and control the sequence of activities. 3. Coordinate with various departments to ensure plan consistency. **Location:** QB2 Project **Employment Type:** Regular full-time **Work Location:** On\-site About our **Santiago** office Teck’s corporate office in Santiago serves as the administrative hub for our mining operations in Chile, supporting Quebrada Blanca (QB) in the Tarapacá Region and Carmen de Andacollo in Coquimbo. Located in the heart of Santiago, our office connects global expertise with world-class mining projects. **Job Description** ------------------------- **Closing Date: July 19, 2026** At Teck, our purpose is to provide essential resources the world relies on to improve lives, while caring for the people, communities, and land we love. Reporting to the Superintendent of Major Maintenance, the Major Maintenance Planner (PMO) will be responsible for centralizing and consolidating major maintenance planning, integrating the work of multiple planners and disciplines, developing robust master schedules (Gantt charts), and controlling the correct sequence, criticality, and synchronization of all shutdown activities. This role will be pivotal in leading the integration, standardization, and scheduling of major maintenance activities (shutdowns), ensuring consolidated, consistent, and executable planning globally across our full value chain: Mine, Concentrator, TMF, Pipeline, and Port. Work location is the Integrated Operations Center at our Santiago offices, on a 5x2 shift schedule, with frequent travel to the Quebrada Blanca site. **Key Responsibilities** --------------------------------- * Be a courageous safety leader, comply with and champion safety and environmental rules, regulations, critical controls, and procedures. * Build and maintain the master shutdown schedule (leveled and detailed Gantt chart). * Integrate and consolidate the work of various major maintenance planners. * Define optimal work sequences, identifying critical path, float, and constraints. * Ensure proper logical interdependencies between activities. * Validate consistency among scope, resources, durations, and execution sequence. * Standardize planning, scheduling, and control criteria across teams. * Identify scheduling risks, interferences, and bottlenecks, proposing mitigation measures. * Coordinate with planning, execution, reliability, and operations to ensure plan consistency. * Generate progress reports, critical milestone tracking, and deviation analysis during execution. * Lead schedule freeze processes and change control through formal change and scope break processes. * Integrate a 360° perspective with internal customers and support areas, generating integrated plans with operational, executing, and logistics teams. **Requirements** -------------- * Professional degree in Civil, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent. * Minimum 8 years of experience in mining, specifically in maintenance planning and scheduling. * 5 years of specific experience with key processes and equipment in Concentrator Plants. * Advanced proficiency in scheduling tools (Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar). * Advanced expertise in major maintenance (shutdown) scheduling. * Advanced proficiency in developing complex Gantt charts and integrated master schedules. * Experience in Critical Path Method (CPM) management and scheduling risk analysis. * Experience integrating multidisciplinary plans into a single program. * Availability to work in Santiago on a 5x2 shift schedule with frequent travel to the Quebrada Blanca site. **About Teck** At Teck, we value diversity. Our teams collaborate respectfully and appreciate the unique perspectives and contributions of every individual. \*This posting complies with Law No. 21\.015, which promotes the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the labor market. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the selection process, please let us know so we can support your equitable participation (Law No. 20\.422\). At Teck, we act in accordance with our principle of Doing the Right Thing and in compliance with applicable laws in our countries of operation to prevent Corporate Criminal Liability. For this reason, our selection processes include questions designed to mitigate risks associated with Law No. 20\.393\. We thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position; however, only selected candidates will be contacted for interviews. Your application to this posting constitutes your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information necessary for recruitment purposes. Teck respects the privacy of all candidates and the confidentiality of personal information. *Job Posting: 54271 \| Job Category: Maintenance \| Employment Type: Regular full-time \| Location: QB2 Project \| Work Location: \#LI \- On\-site*