Plant Superintendent

Objective: 
To supervise the safe and efficient operation of a concrete batch plant including concrete mixer drivers and plant maintenance to ensure delivery of quality product, timely delivery and customer satisfaction.

This is a contract position covering a maternity leave.

Scope:
Volume: 20,000 m3
Staff: 5 employees
Customers: 70+ of varying sizes and sophistication
Tools: Command Concrete Dispatch software and Concrete Direct GPS system

Responsibilities:

1. Batching: In a fast paced, customer oriented environment, responsible for scheduling concrete deliveries, providing pricing to customers, ordering raw material as required for production and ensuring accurate batching to produce a quality product to meet the customers' requirements.
2. Health and Safety: Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving, and adhering to safety policies.  
3. HR/Coaching & Mentoring: Supervise drivers and maintain a positive work environment
4. Environment: Demonstrate a commitment to meet/exceed environmental compliance.  
5. Reporting: Submit reports on time to area administer. Keep accurate records. 
6. Customer Service: Communicate with customers, the Plant Manager and Sales Representative to ensure a positive customer experience and identify sales opportunities. 
7. Transportation & Logistics: Creates efficient scheduling for routine maintenance, schedule jobs to ensure best use of fleet, effectively utilize maintenance programs to maximize plant up-time and manage costs.  
8. Administration: Manage inventory of materials and products, physical inventory counts, order materials, ensure payroll is accurate.
9. Operations Analysis and Action Tracking:  Track performance, establish effective action plans and continuously improve the operations. Maximize turns per day / per truck. 
10. Plant Image:  Maintains the plant in accordance with standard guidelines, ensure all policies are followed.   

Specific Accountabilities:

• Safety performance objective is “Zero”, manage safe and healthy work practices of all staff
• Responsible to achieve targeted KPI’s i.e. safety, service, volume delivered 
• Customer satisfaction
• Utilization of best practices and operational management tools
• Build strong employee morale
• Implementation and adherence of Company policies, including environmental excellence, compliance with governmental regulations and record keeping
• Development of operational personnel
• Optimize productivity, and maximize labor and equipment utilization

Qualification Profile:

• Minimum 3-5 year’s supervisory experience
• Experience in the ready mix business preferred
• Excellent Communication skills – verbal and written
• Good organization and planning skills; able to multi-task, prioritize and maintain composure in a busy environment
• Computer skills (Word, Excel, SAP, Command-Alkon)
• Self-Motivated
• Available to work overtime as needed
• Customer Service oriented

We thank you for your interest. Please note that this posting is for an existing vacancy, and only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.