Area Manager - North West

This position will be responsible for multiple plant operations, including safety and environmental, quality, maintenance, production, and coaching the activities of the plant leaders and all employees at the plant locations. This role will report to the Director of Operations and interact with the overall corporate team to craft and execute strategic plans for the organization's direction.

Essential Job Functions

Safety & Environmental:

• Responsible for promoting and ensuring that the plant leaders and all locations are compliant with all State, Federal, Company, and MSHA rules and regulations.
• Requires knowledge and awareness of site hazards and safe job planning and procedures.
• Active participant in the corporate safety and environmental committee responsible for crafting the direction and execution of the safety and environmental strategies.
• Ability to direct and coach the skills required to drive an integrated safety culture at the individual plant locations.
• Ensure timely investigation completion and follow-through of all plant environmental and safety incidents.
• Educates and promotes participation in safety and environmental-related initiatives.

People:

• Ability to evaluate the talents and skills of the plant leaders and ensure they are supported with the proper training and instructions to perform the essential functions of their jobs.
• Responsible for the management and development of all plant leaders, including providing feedback and coaching through performance reviews and routine interaction.
• Ability to create and implement long-term development and succession plans for self, plant leaders, and their teams.
• Partner with your direct leader and HR Business Partner for all employee-related issues, investigations, disciplinary actions, hiring, terminations, and any employee changes.
• Ensure employee productivity, operational efficiency, customer service levels, employee retention, and morale by maintaining a positive working environment.
• Partner and Collaborate with Engineering and Performance teams on plant performance, mine planning, environmental and capital expenditure projects.

Performance/Reporting:

• Works with plant leaders to plan and schedule production requirements (people and equipment) to support daily, weekly, and monthly sales forecasts, meet customer needs, and optimize balanced production.
• Meets with plant leaders regularly to review plant performance, KPIs, inventory, and ongoing improvement needs.
• Partner with your plant leaders and accounting to develop an annual operating budget that includes production volume and capital improvements to ensure the lowest operating costs.
• Responsible for managing costs and production to meet or exceed production budgets for your area.
• Ensuring your plant leaders are tracking and reporting key financial and performance numbers (tons per operating hour, uptime, delays, mobile fuel consumption, electrical consumption, drilling, and blasting cost).
• Partner with your plant leaders and outside vendors to obtain services as necessary to maintain the facility's performance.

Quality Control:

• Ensure all the plant's production meets or exceeds the state and customer requirements.
• Ensure all plant locations coordinate communication and activities with onsite quality control personnel and the quality control manager.
• Works with the sales team to identify and resolve any customer quality issues and new opportunities.

Innovation

• Utilizes plant production data to identify opportunities to optimize plant and equipment.
• Works with performance and engineering teams to develop long-term capital replacement needs.
• Works with the sales team to identify new product opportunities for customers.
• Works to identify cost-saving/continuous improvement activities to improve operating efficiency.

Community/Personal

• Utilizes appropriate resources to enhance community relations and legislative efforts.
• Actively participates in the area's community outreach and educational programs.
• Identifies personal development needs to enable career growth.

Education and Other Skills:

• 7-10 years of supervisory experience required with P/L knowledge
• Minimum of 5 years experience in aggregate industry preferred
• High School Diploma required.
• BS / BA Degree preferred.
• Must demonstrate excellent leadership, communication (both verbal and written), and problem-resolution skills.
• Must demonstrate an ability to motivate employees and build effective teams.
• Must demonstrate consistent utilization of organization, planning, and time management skills.
• Must demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (specifically Outlook and Excel) and other software/system packages relevant to the position.
• Must demonstrate relevant technical knowledge related to plant operations.
• Must demonstrate proficient business knowledge related to financials and operational tracking.
• Must demonstrate proficient knowledge of scheduling and production planning to meet customer needs.
• Must have a valid Driver's license and a clear driving record.
• Frequent travel to company and customer sites.
• The area includes but is not limited to our sites in Crawfordsville, Thorntown, Delphi, West Lafayette, Francesville, Monon, and Lowell, IN.

Physical Requirements:

• Must have the ability to stand or walk on level or uneven ground continuously.
• Must have the ability to ascend and descend ladders, stairways, and incline catwalks.
• Must have the ability to bend, crouch, and/or kneel at the waist or knees.
• Must have the ability to lift, push, pull, or carry up to 50lbs.
• Ability to work outside and withstand extreme weather conditions. Exposure to hot, cold, wet, humid, or windy conditions caused by the weather.

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