Plant Manager - Harvesting

JOB SUMMARY

The Plant Manager is responsible for the functional oversight of all production facility activities.  Key areas of accountability could include the mining and grinding of pozzolan materials, and/or drying, screening and testing of landfilled fly ash material and the maintenance of the equipment necessary to perform these tasks.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

·         Comply with Eco Material Technologies Safety Policies and Procedures, while setting structure and ensuring compliance within the team to drive to zero harm.

·         Manage all areas of greenfield start up, including the development of Standard Operating Procedures, training of staff, and implementation of operations systems.

·         Direct shift production teams in all aspects of safety, quality, adherence to production schedule, labor efficiency, waste management, maintenance schedule, and cost.   

·         Optimize existing processes to improve plant efficiencies; including troubleshooting and resolving process issues as they occur. Support development of key indicators and metrics that will ultimately tie to plant efficiencies.

·         Work closely with QC department to ensure product quality based on conformance to specifications.

·         Work closely with supplier and end user of fly ash to ensure proper production requirements are achieved and product quality conforms to specifications.

·         Ensure preventive maintenance systems are utilized and timely repair of all production equipment is maintained.

·         Work closely with other key departments as needed.  

·         Assist in the hiring of all new production employees.

·         Evaluate all plant employees annually.

·         Utilize “Six Sigma” or related skills to maintain a clean and organized operation focused on 5S, visual metrics and continuous improvements.  

·         Create reporting format to communicate results to plant associates.  

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

·         Excellent organizational and management of people, including demonstrated experience in building high functioning teams.

·         Demonstrated examples of metrics usage and planning processes to deliver results.

·         Excellent organization and communication skills, with knowledge of lean tools such as root cause failure analysis, preventive maintenance, visual management, and 5S.

·         Basic knowledge of OSHA and/or MSHA regulations and safety requirements preferred.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

·         Engineering or Technical Degree preferred

·         10+ years of manufacturing leadership experience

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The employee should possess the ability to:

·         Move or traverse about an outdoor facility and be able to ascend/descend stairs or ladders.

·         Wear all required personal protective equipment (hearing, vision and hardhat protection).

·         Lift/move/transport items up to 50 pounds.

·         Ability to work around dust, heavy equipment, and in various environmental conditions.

This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities or may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.  This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.