Excess Soil Field Technician

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:
The Excess Soil Field Technician will be responsible for coordinating quarry and pit rehabilitation projects, which includes tracking project progress, managing day-to-day operations, upholding environmental and health and safety requirements, and communicating the project status to the Excess Soil team and Aggregate Operations.

This role contributes to excellence in safety, production, regulatory compliance, sustainability, customer service and supplier / contractor relationship management.

**Responsibilities**:

- Safety Culture: Promote safety culture through engagement with site employees, H&S Rep, 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 company and regulatory guidelines.
- Project Coordination : Direct and coordinate rehabilitation project work including but not limited to: overseeing safe unloading of inbound soil, using digital tools to complete inbound manifests, ensuring hauler and contractor compliance with H&S guidelines / policies, preventing safety hazards, enforcing site circulation plans, implementing and enforcing site level controls to prevent environmental impacts, reporting regularly on project costs, reporting on status of operational controls, coordinating with internal resources and directing third party contractors.
- Environmental Excellence: Preventing adverse effects and impacts to the environment by enforcing project site level compliance requirements.
- Administrative Responsibilities: Tracking and controlling projects using digital tools provided.
- Other Projects as Required: From time to time the Excess Soil Field Technician may be tasked with other projects.

**Relationship with Others**
- Reports to Senior Excess Soil Manager
- Works with the market area Excess Soil Team and participates in daily operational calls.
- Supports and responds to inquiries and requests from plant management and compliance functions including Land, Environment and Health and Safety.

**Specific Accountabilities**:

- Environmental, Compliance and Sustainability Management
- Oversee safe unloading of inbound soil, making sure that rehabilitation projects run safely, smoothly and in compliance with Lafarge requirements.
- Project-level coordination, monitoring, and control.
- Field level soil sampling.
- Site level safety leadership.
- Effective and professional communication with internal and external stakeholders.
- Coordination of contractors, visitors, and customer at site level.
- Daily, weekly, and monthly project reporting using standardized tools.

**Work Environment and Travel**
- Primary location: 4024 ON-6, Hagersville; Secondary locations on an as needed basis: 348 King Edward Street, Paris / 1540 Park Street, Fonthill / 1773 Dumfries Road, Cambridge
- This role requires working outside (heat/cold/wet/dry conditions).
- Monday-Friday 6AM-5PM
- Personal protective equipment provided (steel toe boots, hard hat, gloves, safety glasses, safety jacket/vest)

Qualifications:
**Education & Work Experience**:

- Knowledge, awareness, or experience of the construction and / or mining industry.
- A diploma in construction, engineering or environmental fields is an asset, but not essential.
- Knowledge of waste management and environmental regulations is an asset, but not essential.

**Knowledge & Skills**:

- Comfort and capability working outdoors and in industrial (construction or mining) environments.
- Comfort and capability working safely around heavy mobile equipment.
- Excellent people skills able to develop effective working relationships internally and externally.

**Key Competencies**
- Project and Process Oriented
- Pro-active and Organized
- Responsibility, Integrity and Trust
- Effective Teamwork
- Problem Solving
- Communication skills

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.