Operations Manager

**ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY**

You’ll be working for a Richmond, BC based dynamic concrete recycling and manufacturing company. We pride ourselves for our innovative products, inclusive organizational culture, good employee engagement, distinct company values, and broad career prospects.

**WHY WORK FOR LOCK-BLOCK LTD.?**
- Competitive Wages
- Employee Benefits after 3 months (Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, travel insurance); RRSP matching)
- Support For Additional Training
- We Aim To Promote From Within
- Paid Overtime eligibility
- Work perks
- Company sponsored social events

**WHAT YOU WILL GET TO DO **

**Health and Safety**:

- Demonstrates a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to safety policies in all work environment areas. Promotes a positive safety culture through leadership by example
- Ensures safe and healthy working conditions in sites under his/her responsibility
- Ensure strict compliance with all health and safety rules and country regulations
- Reviews and participates in weekly toolbox talks and drill procedures
- Reviews completed work orders by maintenance staff to identify compliance and opportunities for safety improvement
- Maintain membership on the Joint Health and Safety Committee

**Financial Management**
- Develops and implements strategies to achieve cost reduction goals and continuously looks for opportunities for improvement
- Implements, maintains and reviews a five year maintenance plan for facility & yard
- Contributes to the monthly financial review of the P & L and Balance sheet. Communicates and builds actions accordingly.
- Produces monthly, quarterly and annual maintenance spend forecasts.
- Reviews and approves expenditures for the yard

**Operations Management**
- Interacts with crews and industry experts to develop best practices, processes and to ensure precast and crushing activities are optimized and costs are within budget.
- Effectively use Lock-Block Ltd. resources and programs to drive operational excellence.
- Manages the development and review of KPI’s for maintenance and operational activities.
- Oversee materials and supplies as well as inventory

**Maintenance Management**
- Ensures all assets meet and maintain legal certification requirements
- Establishes contracts with external service and product suppliers to support operational and maintenance requirements
- Implements and maintains a live communication system to capture, track and monitor repair progress
- Implements and maintains a live requisition system that captures requests and ensures requests are addressed in a timely manner to meet operational needs
- Raises, maintains and closes out work orders
- Maintains a documented body of knowledge with respect to maintenance tasks carried out
- Utilizes structure project management approaches to initiate, plan, execute, manage and close capital projects
- Undertakes purchasing of materials and services for maintenance and operational requirements

**People Management**
- Hire, train, coach and discipline employees
- Reviews timesheets and overtime trends for employees
- Reviews employee performance on a periodic basis

**Continuous Improvement**
- Establishes and maintains KPIs to drive continuous improvement strategy
- Periodically reviews existing processes to identify opportunities for improvement
- Proactively develops process innovation in conjunction with internal and external stakeholders

**WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR **

**Education**
- Engineering degree is an Asset or combination of technical education and experience
- Project Management professional designation is a big asset

**Experience and Skill Set**
- Minimum of eight years of experience in heavy industry with five years of progressive management experience
- Proven team leadership
- Proven project management experience of capital projects
- Multiple years of financial and account reporting experience
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication, negotiation and change management skills
- Independent thinker
- High capacity of working under pressure and stress
- Able to effectively use various computer systems and software such as Microsoft Office, Maintenance management software etc
- Knowledge of applicable regulations (ie. WorkSafe BC, Employment Standards, Environmental)
- Comfortable working in an outdoor manufacturing environment

**Competencies**:

- Planning
- Priority settings
- Action oriented
- Problem solving
- Technical skills
- Process management
- Organizing
- Conflict Management

**WE ARE**
Lock-Block Ltd. is a fast-moving, diverse, team-driven, performance-oriented, innovative player that has revolutionized the construction industry by introducing several new construction systems.For over 38 years, Lock-Block Ltd. has been a leader in several construction markets, such as retaining wall modules, concrete recycling, and highway barriers.The Lock-Block Ltd. manufacturing facility encompassing se