Prep Plant Foreman

Position Purpose:
Manage the preparation plant cleaning and loading processes during one shift, ensuring the safety, quality, and quantity budgets are met.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Direct supervision of a work force, which includes assigning work, accounting time, days off, safety contacts and observations.
2. Monitor plant performance to ensure quality product during shift, authorize adjustments to meet standard.
3. Direct preventive maintenance processes on shift to ensure plant runs at maximum efficiency.
4. Maintain records which include but are not limited to, plant performance, overtime, idle day work, time sheets, shipments, and downtime.
5. Ensures that work in assigned area is completed in compliance with state and federal laws, and company policy.
6. Detect and supervise the correction of any defect in material, equipment, or structure in assigned area.
7. Ensure the refuse area is maintained according to current plan.

Other Duties/Responsibilities

1. Weekly safety meetings with employees.
2. Complete any and all required state and federal reports.

Position Qualifications

1. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
   1. Knowledge of modern coal preparation plants, related heavy equipment and refuse impoundments.
   2. Knowledge of PLC’s
   3. Knowledge and ability to make decisions relative to production, maintenance, law, safety, and problems.
   4. Organizational and communication skills.
   5. Ability to supervise and motivate employees.
2. Education and/or Training:
   1. WV Safety Sensitive Certification
   2. Minimum of three years preparation experience.
   3. Emergency Medical Technician for mining preferred.
   4. Quality control experience preferred.

Materials and Equipment Used:

1. Computer.
2. PLCs
3. Various electrical, mechanical, and quality testing devises.

Physical Abilities:

1. Must be able to lift 21-50 pounds occasionally, frequently up to 25 pounds, up to 10 pounds constantly