Job Description
Workplace Type: Onsite
About Newmont
At Newmont, we’re not just a world-leading gold and metals producer – we’re a team united by our commitment to shaping a more inclusive, sustainable, and responsible mining industry. Joining us means becoming part of a global, diverse workforce where everyone is valued, empowered, and encouraged to grow. Our people are the heart of our success, bringing exceptional skill, integrity, and dedication to everything we do as an organization and we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive.
About Lihir
Our Lihir Operation, located on the beautiful island of Niolam, approximately 800km north of Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby, is one of the world’s largest gold mines. Set within a geothermically active, extinct volcanic crater, Lihir operates an open-pit mine producing refractory ore, which undergoes pressure oxidation and conventional leaching to recover gold. Our workforce includes both residential and commute rosters, creating a diverse and dynamic team. Lihir offers a range of recreational facilities, including a gym, sports club, restaurant, bar, swimming pool, tennis and squash courts, and a 9-hole golf course. For those who enjoy the outdoors, the Lihir fishing and boating clubs provide access to pristine waters and beaches, while our onsite deli and café serve fresh local and imported produce, barista-made coffee, and freshly baked goods.
We are proud to work closely with the local Lihirian community and value its vibrant culture. Through initiatives like our School to Mine program, we offer meaningful employment, training, and development opportunities for Lihirian men and women, as well as scholarships and vocational apprenticeships. We also partner with the New Ireland Province to ensure economic benefits flow directly to the community, strengthening our commitment to sustainable development and positive local impact.
Your Impact
As a Planner, Scheduler, you will play a critical role in optimising maintenance planning and scheduling to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operations across the site. You will be responsible for developing highly executable work plans, enabling maintenance teams to deliver work safely and effectively while driving continuous improvement in work management practices.
As part of our team, you will
- Develop and maintain detailed maintenance plans and schedules to support safe and efficient execution of work.
- Manage new work requests, ensuring accuracy, prioritisation, and timely conversion into work orders.
- Collaborate with Supervisors and stakeholders to scope work, identify required resources, materials, and timelines.
- Create comprehensive work packs, including task lists, procedures, safety requirements, and job planning details.
- Coordinate scheduling activities, including forecasting, reporting, and stakeholder alignment for weekly and shutdown work.
- Monitor work order completion and ensure accurate coding, reporting, and closure in the CMMS.
- Analyse performance data and KPIs, identifying improvement opportunities and implementing corrective actions.
- Support shutdown planning and scheduling, including critical path analysis and schedule optimisation.
- Build strong relationships with site stakeholders, including maintenance, operations, and supply chain teams.
- Drive operational excellence by ensuring adherence to work management processes, systems, and standards.
Prerequisites for your success in this role
- Exposure to mechanical and/or electrical maintenance environments is highly beneficial, with trade or engineering backgrounds (Mechanical or Electrical) considered advantageous.
- Demonstrated experience in maintenance planning and scheduling within mining, heavy industry, or a similar environment.
- Strong working knowledge of SAP work management systems, including work order planning, scheduling, and reporting.
- Proven ability to develop detailed maintenance plans, schedules, and work packs.
- Experience in data analysis, KPI tracking, and continuous improvement, with the ability to translate insights into practical outcomes.
- Strong understanding of work management processes, maintenance strategies, and shutdown planning.
- Strong capability in planning and scheduling tools, including MS Project and advanced Excel, to build clear, optimised schedules and effectively communicate plans to site leaders and maintenance teams.
- Experience facilitating and contributing to planning meetings, scheduling discussions, and cross-functional coordination forums, ensuring alignment between stakeholders and clarity in execution priorities.
- Well-developed problem-solving skills, including root cause analysis and performance improvement.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work within structured systems and processes.
- A commitment to safety, with a strong understanding of incorporating hazard controls and safe work practices into planning activities.
Your work environment
This role is offered on a 21:10 Fly in, Fly out (FIFO) day shift roster to Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea.
You will operate within a dynamic and technically focused environment at Lihir Operations, working closely with Maintenance Supervisors, Engineers, Reliability teams, Supply Chain, and external contractors.
This role is highly collaborative, requiring strong engagement across multidisciplinary teams to align maintenance planning with operational priorities. You will be supported by established work management systems, data tools, and business processes to deliver high-quality, timely outcomes.
The role offers the opportunity to contribute to a high-performing maintenance function, driving reliability and efficiency across a world-class mining operation.
Our FIFO employees stay in a secure and comfortable camp, in an en-suited and airconditioned room equipped with mini fridge, TV and Wi-Fi. A variety of healthy meal options are catered for at our mess; and the wet mess provides a relaxed social setting where employees can unwind with a game of pool or darts.
Why Join Newmont
At Newmont, you will be joining a globally recognised organisation committed to safety, sustainability, and operational excellence.
We offer:
- The opportunity to work on a world-class mining operation with industry-leading systems and practices.
- A strong focus on safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Career development opportunities and the chance to build expertise in planning, reliability, and operational excellence.
- A supportive and inclusive team environment where your contributions are valued.
At Newmont, our commitment to diversity and inclusion ensures that everyone can work to their full potential, free from discrimination, while respecting the cultures, religions, and governance of the regions in which we operate. Guided by our values of Safety, Integrity, Sustainability, Responsibility, and Inclusion, our Lihir team – 90% of which are Papua New Guinean – is dedicated to creating a culturally rich and supportive environment where meaningful, long-term connections can be formed within the industry.
We believe in the strength of our people and the positive impact we can create together. Newmont employees are rewarded with a competitive salary, flexible packaging options, and programs that recognize those who go above and beyond. We know no candidate meets every qualification listed, so if you share our values and feel you can make a meaningful contribution, we encourage you to apply – we’d love to hear from you!
Submit your application through our website quoting reference number 42397 before the advertised closing date: 3rd June 2026.