Batcher / Dispatcher

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Batcher / Dispatcher

**Requisition ID**:4836**Location**:Brossard, Quebec, CA, J4Y 2R2**Pay Type**:Hourly**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.

**Objective**
- On a daily basis, ensures the batching (production) of the concrete complies with laboratory specifications, while meeting the clients’ needs. In addition, dispatches and schedules concrete mixer trucks to ensure timely delivery of the concrete and good customer service, all according to the clients’ orders and at the lowest cost.**Responsibilities**
- Safety:
- On a daily basis, check the cleanliness of the site (site safety).
- Ensure that all the employees, yardmen, drivers, mechanics, contractors and other persons on the site are all working safely and wearing their PPE and, moreover, perform inspections on a regular basis to track the progress of the tasks and the work.
- Production:
- On a daily basis, perform a mechanical inspection of the plant (visual inspection, detection of unusual noises, lubrication, vibration, inspection of belts, etc.)
- Before the start of each shift, check and measure the humidity level of the raw materials (stone, sand) and, in so doing, perform a visual inspection of the conditions.
- Batch the concrete and dispatch the concrete mixer trucks to the different work sites according to the required specifications, and ensure compliance of the concrete delivered.
- Order raw materials according to the orders placed or the expected demand. In charge of planning the schedules of the drivers (concrete mixer trucks) and the yardmen regarding deliveries and the next day’s production.
- Inventories:
- Enter receipts of raw materials in the " Command Batch " system and track them according to reports produced by the " Command Batch " system.
- Produce the end-of-day reports (Inventories, receipt and consumption of raw materials, product volumes (m3), fomulas, etc.) and relay the information to the next person on shift as needed.
- Conduct physical inventories (raw materials and other) with one’s director at the end of each month.
- Administration:
- Take phone orders and promote our Turbo & VAP products during COD orders and with clients.
- On a daily basis, check the receipts and forward them to the invoicing department. (Includes verifying the receipts, Wait times - Superplasticizer, etc.)
- Check the starting and leaving times and the lunch and other breaks, according to the collective agreement, of all hourly employees and/or prepare the daily report of the deliveries made by the " Broker " trucks by checking the zones for each of the delivery receipts.
- On a daily basis, check the cash sales as well as the use of the concrete mixer trucks (Lafarge, Broker, internal and external leases) and track such use with one’s director.
- Optimization and communication:
- On a regular and daily basis, communicate with the batchers/dispatchers of the other plants to optimize the use of the fleet of concrete mixer trucks and of the personnel for the current day and the next.
- Maintain constant communication with the director, keeping him informed of any plant breakdown, production/delivery problem, or health
- or safety-related incident.
- Specific accountabilities- Batch the concrete according to mix designs
- Plans raw materials orders and RMX deliveries
- Ensures the reception of raw materials in SAP and command batch.
- Performa plant inspections.
- Complete inventory reports.

Dimensions:
- Locations: GMA Plants
- RMX volume: 50 000m3 to 200 000m3 annually
- Direct Reports: 0
- Indirect Reports: 0

**Qualification Profile**
- Education & Work Experience:
- Must hold a collegial degree in civil engineering (Technician)
- Must have minimum 3 years of related experience in batching concrete and dispatching concrete mixer trucks
- Knowledge & Sk