Electrical Supervisor

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 ensure that all plant electrical equipment is maintained in the most reliable and cost effective manner possible. To motivate, supervise and lead the electrical personnel including with all other departments and ensuring Health and Safety regulations is a top priority.

**Responsibilities**:

- Safety: Guarantee compliance with OH&S and environment policies for electrical maintenance personnel. Establish safety culture and tackle specific actions to ensure health and safety prevention during maintenance activities. Contribute to plant housekeeping and cleanliness. To serve as a role model in the areas of safety, environmental stewardship, leadership, teamwork, customer focus, and continuous improvement to ensure alignment with the company’s vision and critical success factors.
- Maintenance Inspection & Planning: Determine and identify the necessary actions of corrective and preventive electrical, instrumentation and automation maintenance in coordination with Mechanical, Process and Production Departments. When possible, perform first level inspections and trouble shooting of electrical problems in order to better define scope of repair work. Ensure electrical maintenance team’s full time readiness to efficiently tackle emergencies or urgent breakdowns. Contribute to optimization by identifying critical parts of electrical equipment (based on risk assessment), proposing optimal stock levels of spare parts (through FMEA) and identifying remaining lifetime of critical electrical equipment. Define measures to extend lifetimes and set-up replacement planning in line with cost target.
- Maintenance Scheduling: Prepare daily, weekly, project based, and annual shutdown electrical maintenance plans (work orders) according to preventive, scheduled, or new maintenance actions. Coordinate and supervise execution of work order activities, failure data gathering (cause, symptom ), time confirmation (external and internal), and material withdrawal. Manage execution of maintenance activities by third parties. Cooperate with Mechanical, Production and Process departments in the execution of complex maintenance actions.
- Leadership: Provide professional and development/coaching to on a frequent basis and where required clarify roles and responsibilities for workers. Interact and promote efficient teamwork throughout different areas of the plant such as production, process/quality, and management, with support drawn from expertise.
- Personnel Development: Provide a work environment that promotes individual growth. Ensure the management of individual and team performance. Effectively coach all electrical personnel in general on areas of improvement and recognize strong suits. Be a facilitator for cohesive teamwork.
- Strategy & Execution: Ensure Lafarge strategies are integrated and in alignment with the country, regional and global category approach. Lead benchmarking with external companies to drive competitive advantage. Facilitate the development and growth of the company as well as grow to become an essential asset.
- Project Management: Manage all electrical aspects of capital projects directly or indirectly (using others). Use Lafarge Holcim’s CAPEX Management Handbook including the relevant processes and procedures to ensure consistency and compliance.

**Relationship with Others**:

- Report to Maintenance Manager.
- Supervisor/Coordinator to 3 Systems Technicians
- Work with Mechanical staff; Production and Process/Quality departments

**Dimensions**:

- Manage annual budget spend of ~$500,000.00
- Supervise the work of 3 Systems Technicians and Electrical Contractors
- Production Volume: ~225KT Cement

**Specific Accountabilities**:

- Provide a safe working environment for all employees
- Administer the terms and conditions of the Collective Agreement in a fair, firm, and consistent manner. Provide grievance counseling as required
- Ensure that electrical activities comply with all legislated regulations and corporate policies
- Promote good relations and communication between the electrical maintenance and production departments
- Promote good plant moral, housekeeping, and safe working conditions
- Ensure productivity, housekeeping and quality of work standards are maintained within the electrical maintenance department
- Aim to achieve 98% reliability on all major pieces of equipment
- Achieve personal and departmental goals
- Participate in the plant On-Call system and act as a backup to the System Technicians on Call-ins and perform bargaining unit work when they