Plant Superintendent

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Plant Superintendent

**Requisition ID**:4541**Location**:Hamilton, ON, CA, L8H 2Y7
- Burlington, ON, CA, L7L 4W9**Pay Type**:Hourly**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.

**Objective**:
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.

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.

Plant Image:
- Maintains the plant in accordance with standard guidelines for plant image.
- Plant image includes housekeeping, parts storage, vehicles and equipment condition (cleanliness and appearance), entrance & property, and buildings.
- Ensure all policies regarding day to day operations are followed.
- Monitor concrete wash out is clean and drivers are held accountable for following set procedure.
- Ensure that returned concrete is poured into block moulds and that block making area is keep clean.
- Ensure block moulds are stripped and reset each morning.
- Maintain a clean and organised work space.
- Areas that customers/employees have accesses to must not contain any