Overview

Hazleton Quarry, a division of the H&K Group, Inc., is seeking a Foreperson for the safe and efficient production of materials in the quarry.

Why work for H&K Group, Inc.?

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• 100% Company-paid Health Benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan
• Tuition reimbursement programs available to qualifying employees for approved programs
• Additional training programs including on the job, online through H&K Academy, manufacturer offered training, and more

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform all work according to MSHA and H&K Safety policies
• Directly supervise all quarry employees
  • Training
  • Planning, assigning, and directing work
  • Performance appraisals and coaching
  • Employee recognition and discipline
  • Addressing complaints and problems
• Create a safe worksite
• Read and interpret blueprints and related documents as needed
• Record daily events in a job diary
• Schedule materials, equipment, and work for crew
• Analyze crew SIP’s to create site SIP’s
• Obtain quantities from crews and prepare for billing process with PM
• Analyze cost reports for production adjustments
• Accurately code and control onsite costs
• Conduct site meetings
• Attend E&S and Job Turnover meetings
• Communicate goals and purpose effectively
• Demonstrate by example
• Influence and enforce company values
  • Recognize misalignments with company values and culture and ensure compliance
• Understand and anticipate customers’ needs
• Communicate with customer representatives and represent the company professionally
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Required Skills, Education, and Experience

• Associate degree from an accredited educational institution OR 5 years of related experience and/or training
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
• Able to read blueprints and job-related documents
• Understand business practices within the organization and the importance of repeat business
• Basic technololgy skills including internet, email, and digital photo documentation
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills
• Leadership and teamwork skills
• Self-motivated and organized
• Safety-focused
• Ability to fit test & utilize appropriate PPE as needed
• Ability to meet physical requirements (movement, lifting, as relevant to job)

Preferred Skills, Education, and Experience

• Experience in a supervisory role
• Experience with heavy equipment used in quarries
• Experience working in quarries
• MSHA or other safety certifications

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to
• Sit
• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel
• Reach with hands and arms
• Frequently required to talk or hear
• Occasionally required to
• Stand
• Walk, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities
• Distance
• Peripheral
• Depth perception

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to outside weather conditions
• Frequently exposed to
• Moving mechanical parts
• Fumes or airborne particles
• Noise level is usually moderate 

Chalfont Quarry (formerly H&K Materials) maintains the distinction of being the first surface mining operation purchased by H&K Group, Inc. in 1973. Since this time, Chalfont Quarry and Chalfont Asphalt have been producing and supplying a full line of high-quality construction aggregate and asphalt products to the Bucks and Montgomery Counties region. Owned and operated by Naceville Materials, JV, (partnership between H&K Group, Inc. and Naceville Materials, Inc.), Chalfont Quarry and Chalfont Asphalt are capable of providing full-service delivery of both our asphalt and construction aggregate products.

The H&K Group, Inc. provides complete heavy civil contracting and construction materials solutions with safety, speed, quality, efficiency, and value. Beginning as a small family business a half century ago, we are now a dynamic group of vertically integrated companies that has been growing and prospering for over 50 years.

Thank you for your interest in employment with H&K Group, Inc. At H&K, we invest in our people, providing the essential training, instruction, and supervisory support that they need to develop and grow within our company. We acknowledge that H&K’s strength and success is directly related to our employees and the talents, dedication, and job performance they exemplify. We seek dynamic, motivated people who are driven to make a difference.

H&K does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are always looking for the best, most qualified people to join our team.

Pre-employment drug testing (EOE)

Pre-employment Physical 

100% Company-Paid Health Benefits!