Job Summary:

The Assistant Quarry Manager oversees the production processes and people of the open pit limestone quarry in daily work activities. The Assistant Quarry Manager ensures that the related processes, from drilling to delivery to the primary crusher, meet or exceed established specifications and production requirements. The Assistant Quarry Manager will lead and drive a progressive approach to Safety by sustaining or enhancing local practices, processes, tools, and training programs needed to ensure total effectiveness within the Quarry team.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a safe workplace and work culture.
• Assists in meeting budgeted production targets for both mining and stripping.
• Maintain environmental compliance.
• Assists in management of data capture including but not limited to SAP inputs, timecard maintenance, blast reporting.
• Assists in management of employee productivity, job performance, and overall production efficiencies within the quarry.
• Assists in implementing training plans to provide employees with the necessary training to perform their job safely and effectively.
• Review barriers identified during shift turnover meetings to develop and monitor action plans to overcome the obstacles.
• Verify procedures and work instructions are effective and being followed.
• Provide feedback to the maintenance team to support operational objectives.
• Ensure compliance with work instructions to define and control the production process.
• Assist in overall plant planning, selecting the proper equipment and establishing the required manpower levels.
• Know and follow the collective agreement.
• Assists in overseeing overtime requirements to meet sales, production, and maintenance requirements.
• Ensure the execution of the daily production plan and oversee necessary arrangements to keep plant running during breakdowns; generate maintenance request notifications as needed.
• Attend and provide input during the daily meetings.
• Review barriers identified during shift turn over meetings to develop and monitor action plans to overcome the obstacles.
• Assist in explaining significant variances from daily plan and recommend changes that will upgrade the running of the limestone facility.
• Must be able to provide assistance, as needed, with coverage in shop with machinist, millwrights and mechanics (along with contractors).

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent.
• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in mining environment.
• Positive and proactive attitude with ability to address issues and implement solutions.
• Understanding of basic workings of heavy equipment.
• Detail and process oriented with strong problem resolution abilities.
• Must be able to work in a team environment and willing and able to adapt to fast-paced changing environments.
• Know and follow the collective agreement.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions provided such accommodations to not create undue hardship to the company.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arm; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell; and is occasionally required to stand. Additionally, the job required the employee to work on occasion at heights. 

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Needed Knowledge and Skills:

Knowledge

• Knowledge of operational management and working in a union environment
• strong organization and prioritization skills
• Experience in mining and/or heavy manufacturing industry.
• Knowledge of operational management, people management skills and working in a union environment
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in mining and/or heavy manufacturing industry.
• Demonstrated ability to assess organizational and people issues, provide coaching and mentoring, and deliver solutions that improve facility performance.

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to take initiative, strong organization, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to assist the team in achieving their goals through facilitation and leadership.
• Ability to maintain positive and responsive interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other departments.
• Demonstrates the ability to apply appropriate conflict management strategies to ensure conflicts are resolved to the benefit of all parties.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills in written, spoken, listening, and presentation; and effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrates strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Ability to handle conflict with a win-win approach.
• Demonstrate personal initiatives, self- starter.
• Possess knowledge of SAP