Assistant Plant Manager - Earle Creek Location

Why work for Lafarge?

As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a greener, smarter and healthier world. At Lafarge Canada Inc., safety comes first, collaboration matters and diversity is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually make our materials better.

Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview

The Assistant Plant Manager will assist the Plant Manager in planning, coordination and supervision of the ongoing activities at various GVA plant operations to achieve all targets, budgets, objectives and goals. Recent graduates from post secondary institutions will be considered.

A recent diploma or degree in the Engineering field will be highly considered for the position. Field expeirence on civil, mechanic or mining projects will also be noticed.

Responsibilities

• Financial Management: Assist in forecasting and scheduling production to balance inventories and sales needs to manage and minimize working capital impact. Promote a culture of performance and exceeding expected results. Contribute towards accurate forecasting. Adhere to purchasing policies, procedures, and directives. Provide cost-effective solutions for onsite problems.
• Safety Culture: Assist the plant manager in promoting the safety culture through engagement with employees, visual leadership, and implementation and maintenance of local and regional initiatives with an objective of “zero” safety incidents. Adhere, administer, and promote safety policies, processes and execute procedures to ensure that the site meets or exceeds all Lafarge and regulatory guidelines.
• Labour Management /People Development: Assist the plant manager in the development, motivation, scheduling and training of production personnel to promote customer focus and operational efficiency. Provide leadership for employees by working closely with them on a daily basis. Contribute to development of emerging leaders. Provide effective delegation of tasks with accountability.
• Customer Focus: Assist the plant manager in planning to ensure production meets forecasted demand while serving customers with timely shipping strategies and quality-assured products. Engage with Sales and other stakeholders to provide solution selling.
• Production Management: Assist the plant manager in the execution of production plans, making adjustments to meet Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). Employ daily communication process to drive group efficiencies and manage production performance.
• Land Management/ Community Relations: Assist the plant manager in ensuring that site meets or exceeds all Lafarge and Regulatory guidelines. Conduct site operations with minimal negative impact on surrounding environment and communities. Support effective relationships within the community by participating in local activities/events.

Specific Accountabilities

• Labor: Shift Schedules, Incident investigation reporting, Stakeholder relations, Operational efficiency, Staff training/mentoring/evaluating, Production reporting
• Financial: Accurate forecasts, Adherence to purchasing policies and procedures, order taking/placing, generating cost effective business solutions
• Production: Manufacturing KPI’s, Maintenance management, Daily/weekly/monthly production sheets & meeting,
• Safety: Near Miss reporting, MVA’s, FA’s, MI’s, LTI’s, Safety inspections/reports, WAH/Confined Space permits,
• Production planning, Inventory Reconciliation, Downtime reports, Preventative Maintenance Planning,
• Mobile Equipment Maintenance Preventative Maintenance
• Land: Dust and Noise control
• Risk assessments, JHSC meeting, VFL’s, Traffic management, Adherence to LOTOTO, Policies and procedures
• Customer Focus: Shipping staff/process management, Production plan execution, Product quality assurance

Job-Specific Competency Profile

• Business acumen Innovation Management Organizing
• Dealing with ambiguity Managing diversity Motivating others
• Conflict Management Intellectual Horsepower Negotiating
• Action oriented Delegation Managerial Courage
• Dealing with Paradox Customer Focus Listening
• Building effective teams Time Management Written Communications
• Priority setting Problem solving Process Management

Dimensions

• Business Warehouse (BW)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Supervision of Personnel
• Extraction Facility
• Reports to Plant Manager, Various Sites
• Effective utilize Assets
• Procure to Pay (P2P)
• Process Facility
• Direct Reports – (Applicable Foreman)
• Plant Maintenance (PM)

Reporting/Other Systems

• Qlik View
• 7B
• DWOR

Delta Program Toolkit

• Short Interval Controls (SIC) Sheet
• Visual Tracking (i.e. White Boards)
• Perfect Day & Walk Your Site
• Meetings (daily/weekly/monthly)
• Skills Flexibility Matrix
• Root-Cause-Analysis
• Opportunity Log
• Action Log

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Recent graduate from a university/college with civil engineering/business degree/diploma
• Works well in a team environment.
• Construction Safety Officer (CSO).
• One to three years of industry experience.
• Able to handle difficult issues in a positive way.
• Interest in a long-term career in business, engineering, and construction with a goal to pursue
• Organized self starter.
• Strong people, analytical, problem solving and project management skills.
• Experience with aggregate equipment and processes.

As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required.

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As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are passionate, driven by curiosity and keen to grow, learn, develop and thrive in our high-performance culture.

Whatever you do, you will make a difference here. Because we know that your passion and curiosity are the natural resources the world needs.

See more opportunities at www.lafarge.ca/careers .

We thank you for your interest. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Lafarge is committed to the principles of employment equity and encourages the applications from women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities.