Mechanical Maintenance 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**:
Lafarge is recruiting a **Maintenance Supervisor** for a position located in Exshaw, AB.
Successful people working at the plant have a background in mining or similar industries and in working with large industrial projects/equipment. Previous experience in a leadership role is required for this position. This role is one of two positions reporting to the Maintenance Coordinator. Reporting directly to the Maintenance Supervisor are 20 Tradesmen and/or apprentices; this role would be responsible for ~50% of those employees.

**Responsibilities**:

- To conduct the maintenance activities which have been scheduled by the Maintenance Coordinator and complete safe execution with a dedicated crew of tradespeople
- Ensure that tasks are performed in a safe, productive and timely manner, while continuing to improve company and employee relationships within the context of the collective agreement and corporate policy
- Encourage employee engagement through communication, training and performance feedback
- Tracking and recording information for any maintenance issues that arise in accordance with safety standards in SAP
- Providing regular communication of job status to the Coordinator and other management as required
- Responsible for participating in the salaried on-call program.
- Taking on a role as a safety leader, responsible to ensure that all direct reports adhere to plant safety policy and is responsible to remove roadblocks that would interfere with adherence to policy
- Assigning overtime, taking into account call-out procedures, overtime equalization, job continuation etc.

**Plant Characteristics**:

- 1,300,000 tonnes of clinker per year currently. Capacity of 2,000,000 tonnes.
- 1,400,000 tonnes of cement per year. Capacity of 2,400,000 tonnes.
- Three quarries: Limestone, Shale and Sandstone
- Crushing: 1350 tph primary / secondary crusher c/w screening.
- Storage: Prehomo and clinker with auto stacking and reclaiming.
- Raw Grinding: Two 155 tph closed circuit ball mills, plus One 345 tph vertical roller mill.
- Burning: Two precalciner kilns (2400 tpd and 4200 tpd, respectively)
- Finish Grinding: Two closed circuit ball mills, plus One 250 tph vertical cement mill.
- Shipping: Cement by truck and rail
- Products:

- Clinker - AASHTO, HS and OWG
- Cement - GU, HS, OWG, HE.

**Qualifications**:

- A good mechanical aptitude
- 3+ years’ Supervisory experience leading a team
- Experience working in a union environment
- Ability to work in an industrial environment that may include dust, heat, loud noise etc.
- Experience working in mining, steel or similar industries is desirable
- Recognition of the safety element of the job

**As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required.**
LafargeHolcim:As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are **passionate**, driven by **curiosity** and keen to **grow**, **learn, develop** and **thrive** in our high-performance culture.
Whatever you do, you will make a difference here. Because we know that your passion and curiosity are the natural resources the world needs.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent