Operations Coordinator

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Operations Coordinator

**Requisition ID**:4232**Location**:Ottawa, ON, CA, K2H 7T5**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.

**Position Summary**:

- The Operations Coordinator is responsible for the leadership and management support of the operational functions and performance for the area.
- The Operations Coordinator works closely with the operational team to ensure alignment with all functional groups, Safety, Manufacturing Environment, and Land to drive communication and consistency.
- Primary focus is optimizing available resources and leveraging operational excellence to achieve the highest productivity at the lowest cost of production. Primary focus is ECAN Safety Policy’s, Performance and Execution.
- Weekly analysis of operational effectiveness and efficiency with a goal to identify areas of concern and/or opportunity.
- The Operations Coordinator is responsible for providing key operational data and analysis for use in operational decision making for the market area.
- He/she will be responsible for information regarding operational cost & variance analysis and forecast preparation, consumption tracking (i.e. labor, fuel, and energy), capital spending status, and key performance indicators.
- This position will ensure processes are in place and effectively utilized across the market area (i.e. common operating reports (CORe), consumption analysis, standard operating procedures (SOP’s).
- This role is critical to ensuring that best practices are implemented, utilized and supported. It will ensure that data and analysis is available to assist the Operations Manager and Site / Area Managers to effectively execute their jobs in a professional and informed manner.
- The Operations Coordinator will work closely with ECAN Safety and Manufacturing team to ensure consistency and best practice across the market.

**Responsibilities**:

- Safety Culture:
- Promotes safety culture through engagement with employees, JHSC and subcontractors with an objective of “zero” safety incidents.
- Administer, promote and review safety policies, processes and procedures to maintain relevance while ensuring the site meets or exceeds all Lafarge and Regulatory guidelines.
- Has ownership of the implementation and management of all local and regional safety initiatives, providing feedback as necessary.
- Human Resources:
- Assists in the development, motivation and training of all administrative, production and shipping personnel to promote customer focus, operational efficiency and skill development.
- Works closely with Site/ Area Managers and production staff to develop and improve analytical and technical skills to improve operational and production management.
- Operations Management:
- Assists in the development, implementation and track production and shipping processes and strategies to achieve targeted Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
- Employs daily communication processes with Local Distribution, Supply Chain and Quality to drive group efficiencies, manage inventories and production performance.
- Assist in preparing data and analysis for the PER’s in the market area.
- Assist in preparing and tracking the operational action plans for the market area.
- Maintains tracking systems to ensure they are correct and up-to-date.
- Consumption Tracking:
- Ensures systems are in place to effectively and accurately monitor key consumption variable such as labor, energy and fuel.
- Analyses results to identify opportunities and concerns.
- Provides consistent and effective reports for operations management.
- Financial Management:
- Supports financial analysis to identify cost reduction opportunities.
- Forecast profitability and production to optimize yield; support supply chain with balancing inventory and sales ne