Plant Superintendent

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a
**greener**,
**smarter** and
**healthier** world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,
**safety** comes first,
**collaboration** matters and
**diversity** is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually
**make our materials better.**

Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview:
To supervise the safe and efficient operation of a concrete batch plant including concrete mixer drivers and plant maintenance to ensure delivery of quality product, timely delivery and customer satisfaction.

**Responsibilities**:
Health and Safety:

- Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving, and adhering to safety policies in all work environments and areas.
- Responsible for ensuring safety guideline are followed by employees on a daily basis.
- Correct safety issues immediately when possible, and offer employees coaching on safe work practices.
- Ensures all aspects of his/her role are executed in a safe manner.
- Responsible for keeping accurate and organized daily safety talks binder.
- Document near misses and significant coaching events to plant manager along with plant safety issues.
- Ensure safety documentation is up to date with Safety minutes and tool box talk sheets and communicated to the plant employees and drivers.

Batching:

- In a fast paced, customer oriented environment, responsible for scheduling concrete deliveries, providing pricing to customers, ordering raw material as required for production and ensuring accurate batching to produce a quality product to meet the customers' requirement on a daily basis.
- This role will assist the plant manager in his/her daily plant operation duties by managing resources needed and batch quality concrete.
- In this role, you will also be asked to supervise a group of drivers and help coordinate the truck loading process, batch the appropriate concrete, and coordinate plant maintenance.
- Safety is the number one priority and, as such, you will need to supervise safe working procedures and follow group policies.

HR/Coaching & Mentoring:

- Report to the Plant Manager regarding situations that require disciplinary actions.
- Foster an effective environment for employee relations.
- Ensure employees have a daily job list and inform them of any irregular work hours.

Environment:

- Demonstrate a commitment to meet/exceed environmental compliance.
- Have an understanding of the procedures for environmental issues such as spills, dust control, truck idling, etc. are outlined in the EMS manual.
- Ensure spill containment is on hand at all times.

Reporting:

- Maintain an accurate account of the volume sold, rejected and resold on a daily basis.
- Submit reports on time to area administer.
- Submit Quality Control report on a monthly basis to Quality Control Manager.
- Ensure all COD money is collected before concrete is sold, unless otherwise directed from manager.
- Keep an accurate account of COD sales. Maintain a COD log of quotes supplied with contact numbers.
- Keep an accurate account of fuel usage.
- Ensure all invoices are approved by the Plant Manager.
- Promote and ensure full usage driver tablets for electronic tickets, safety documentation, pre-trip inspections and ordering through our proprietary Concrete Direct system.
- Ensure mechanic is receiving all inspection reports from drivers.
- Document issues with drivers.

Sales:

- Communicate opportunities and threats to Plant Manager and Sales Representative.
- Communicate customer issues with plant manager and/or appropriate Lafarge employee.
- Ensure all COD calls are followed up on and strive to up sell all COD’s towards a VAP product.

Transportation & Logistics:

- Responsible for supervision of Ready Mix drivers on a daily basis.
- Responsible for concrete batch operations.
- Directs the activities of drivers while in the plant yard and through radio communications while on the job sites.
- This position requires a thorough understanding of the concrete manufacturing process.
- Work with mechanic to ensure efficient scheduling for routine maintenance on the plant and loader.
- Schedule jobs to ensure best use of fleet.
- Schedule deliveries throughout the day to maximize truck turns per day when possible.
- Effectively utilizes Lafarge’s maintenance programs to maximize plant up-time and manage costs.

Administration:

- Manage inventory of materials and products through interface with Command and SAP.
- Performs, at minimum, one physical inventory counts each month.
- Orders materials for concrete components and supplies for resale.
- Assist plant manager with various administrative works in the office.
- When plant manager is absent from the office inform he/she of any important information that arrived during their absence.
- Ensure all payrolls are accurate and prepared for the manager’s sign off in a timely manner.

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