Plant Superintendent Jobs

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.

Health and Safety:  

• Ensure safety documentation is up to date with Safety minutes and tool box talk sheets and communicated to the plant employees and drivers.
• Correct safety issues immediately when possible, and offer employees coaching on safe work practices.
• Responsible for ensuring safety guideline are followed by employees on a daily basis.
• Document near misses and significant coaching events to plant manager along with plant safety issues.
• Ensures all aspects of his/her role are executed in a safe manner. 
• Responsible for keeping accurate and organized daily safety talks binder.
• Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving, and adhering to safety policies in all work environments and areas. 

Batching:  

• This role will assist the plant manager in his/her daily plant operation duties by managing resources needed and batch quality concrete. 
• Safety is the number one priority and, as such, you will need to supervise safe working procedures and follow group policies.
• In this role, you will also be asked to supervise a group of drivers and help coordinate the truck loading process, batch the appropriate concrete, and coordinate plant maintenance.  
• 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' requirement on a daily basis.

HR/Coaching & Mentoring: 

• Report to the Plant Manager regarding situations that require disciplinary actions. 
• Ensure employees have a daily job list and inform them of any irregular work hours.
• Foster an effective environment for employee relations. 

Environment: 

• Demonstrate a commitment to meet/exceed environmental compliance. 
• Ensure spill containment is on hand at all times.
• Have an understanding of the procedures for environmental issues such as spills, dust control, truck idling, etc. are outlined in the EMS manual.

Reporting:

• Ensure mechanic is receiving all inspection reports from drivers.
• Ensure all COD money is collected before concrete is sold, unless otherwise directed from manager.
• Maintain an accurate account of the volume sold, rejected and resold on a daily basis.
• Submit Quality Control report on a monthly basis to Quality Control Manager.
• Document issues with drivers.
• Ensure all invoices are approved by the Plant Manager. 
• Promote and ensure full usage driver tablets for electronic tickets, safety documentation, pre-trip inspections and ordering through our proprietary Concrete Direct system.
• Keep an accurate account of COD sales. Maintain a COD log of quotes supplied with contact numbers.
• Submit reports on time to area administer.
• Keep an accurate account of fuel usage.  

Sales: 

• Communicate customer issues with plant manager and/or appropriate Lafarge employee.
• Communicate opportunities and threats to Plant Manager and Sales Representative.
• Ensure all COD calls are followed up on and strive to up sell all COD’s towards a VAP product.

Transportation & Logistics: 

• Work with mechanic to ensure efficient scheduling for routine maintenance on the plant and loader.
• Schedule jobs to ensure best use of fleet.
• Directs the activities of drivers while in the plant yard and through radio communications while on the job sites. 
• Effectively utilizes Lafarge’s maintenance programs to maximize plant up-time and manage costs. 
• Responsible for concrete batch operations. 
• Schedule deliveries throughout the day to maximize truck turns per day when possible.
• This position requires a thorough understanding of the concrete manufacturing process.
• Responsible for supervision of Ready Mix drivers on a daily basis.

Administration: 

• Manage inventory of materials and products through interface with Command and SAP.
• When plant manager is absent from the office inform he/she of any important information that arrived during their absence.
• Performs, at minimum, one physical inventory counts each month.
• Assist plant manager with various administrative works in the office.
• Orders materials for concrete components and supplies for resale.
• Ensure all payrolls are accurate and prepared for the manager’s sign off in a timely manner.

Operations Analysis and Action Tracking: 

• Maximize turns per day / per truck.
• Ensure a full understanding of the batch computer and regularly verify batching tolerances.
• Limit call in no loads, top ups, and deadheads.
• Goal is less than 1% voided meters.
• Seek help when necessary.
• Track and make adjustments to limit voided concrete.
• Effectively utilizes KPIs, Performance Efficiency Reviews, financial statements and operational reports to track performance, establish effective action plans and continuously improve the operations. 

Plant Image: 

• Maintain a clean and organised work space.
• Ensure all policies regarding day to day operations are followed.  
• Ensure that returned concrete is poured into block moulds and that block making area is keep clean.
• Monitor concrete wash out is clean and drivers are held accountable for following set procedure. 
• Areas that customers/employees have accesses to must not contain any sensitive information.  
• PPE for employees/guests should be on hand and in good order at all times.
• Plant image includes housekeeping, parts storage, vehicles and equipment condition (cleanliness and appearance), entrance & property, and buildings.  
• Ensure general cleanliness of plant is upheld.
• Maintains the plant in accordance with standard guidelines for plant image. 
• Safety equipment must remain accessible and in good order at all times
• Ensure block moulds are stripped and reset each morning.  

Specific Accountabilities:

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

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