Plant Superintendent

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Plant Superintendent

**Requisition ID**:3984**Location**:Kingston, ON, CA, K7M 6P9**Pay Type**:Salary**WHO IS LAFARGE?**
As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Lafarge is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. We are driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling to build more with less. It’s all thanks to our 7,000 talented people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products.

**WHO ARE LAFARGE PEOPLE?**
Lafarge people are passionate about finding better ways to build. They embrace innovation and improvement with a pioneering spirit. They work as trusted partners, creating better solutions and experiences for their customers, communities, and colleagues.

**Overview**:

- Reporting to the Kingston/Belleville Plant Manager this role manages the plant operations at Modular 4. This role is responsible to ensure top performance on safety, environmental, and production. The responsibilities also include the hiring, development, leadership and management of all plant employees. The Superintendent will ensure alignment with all functional groups including: safety, environment, land, manufacturing and supply chain to drive a consistent process and standard approach.**General Responsibilities**:

- Safety Culture:
- Develop and instill a site level safety culture through consistent engagement with employees and contractors with an objective of “zero” harm;
- Lead daily huddles to demonstrate commitment to workplace safety;
- Ensure front line employee compliance to all applicable local and regional health & safety policies and initiatives, including but not limited to hazard reporting, risk assessment, Working at Heights, Confined Space, Energy Isolation and Hot Work;
- Assist in the preparation for and participation in periodic health & safety site audits; a
- nd assist in the administration of the site Contractor Safety Management program, by completing site orientations, where required, and regularly auditing contractor performance to ensure compliance to applicable local and regional health & safety policies.
- Human Resources:
- Directly responsible for the individual development, motivation and training of all direct reports to maximize their performance;
- Responsible for the administration of disciplinary measures in a fair and consistent manner to address / correct substandard performance of all direct reports;
- Lead the site hiring process;
- Lead the administration and management of local collective and hourly working agreements amongst all direct reports;
- Promote, develop and drive customer focus, operational efficiency and performance management process within frontline teams;
- Production Management:
- Determine manpower requirements and shift scheduling to meet production demands;
- Establish and manage weekly production and maintenance schedule;
- Manage and drive meeting daily production targets;
- Responsible for participating in the short and long-term planning and execution of maintenance activities;
- Involved in the daily implementation and compliance to the Maintenance Module, including but not limited to creating job plans, completing equipment inspection logs, and managing maintenance backlogs.
- Oversee the procurement of all subcontractors related to production and mobile equipment.
- Financial Management:
- Development and adherence to annual maintenance (repair) budgets;
- Participate in monthly EBIT reviews to ensure its accuracy and to identify cost reduction opportunities;
- Responsible to manage production and inventory forecasting to optimize yield and profitability;
- Support supply chain with balancing inventories and sales needs to manage and minimize the working capital impact.
- Customer Focus:
- Coordinate with sales and dispatch personnel to ensure daily customer requirements are met;
- Management of stockpile inventories;
- Coordinate with Quality and shipping personnel to address quality issues related to production issues.
- Land Management:
- Responsible for short-term planning and execution of activities in accordance with the Mining Plan;
- Ensures site level compliance to Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) requirements, including but not limited to site plans, rehabilitation and dust control.
- Work in conjunction with Plant Manager.
- Environmental Management:
- Assist in the develo