Aggregates Plant Manager

About the Role

Vulcan Materials Company is the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. When you join Vulcan, you join a dynamic culture where career development is encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is valued. Every team member lives through the Vulcan Way: doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time.

Responsibilities

• Promote Safety: Take an active role prioritizing safety for yourself and others to ensure all assigned plants have zero accidents and are in total compliance with all Vulcan policies and procedures.
• Organize and Plan Production: Plan the daily operation scheduling of plant production to ensure optimal utilization of plant equipment, personnel, and inventory requirements. Ensure optimal utilization of work procedures in regards to stripping, mining, processing, stockpiling, loading, and shipping. Maintain responsibility for all aspects of site planning and pit development.
• Manage Employee Relations: Provide strong leadership, training, team building, and supervision to all employees at the plant. Work cross-functionally with HR to recruit new employees, provide merit increases, perform disciplinary actions, and evaluate employee performance to develop talent.
• Monitor Processes and Materials: Analyze production and quality control to ensure a quality product for customers. Monitor operational reports to ensure best practices in extraction, processing, stockpiling, and re-handling, keeping product within target specifications. Implement and monitor a preventive maintenance program to limit work stoppages, downtime, and other disruptions.
• Ensure Economic Profit: Manage financial decisions for the plant, including budgets, forecasts, inventory management, and labor and capital planning to ensure adherence to all budgets and financial goals. Seek improvement activities to reduce costs and improve operating efficiency across the plant.
• Maintain Compliance: Build a strong safety culture to ensure the plant complies with Vulcan’s safety, operations, and environmental policies and procedures. Manage the health and safety of employees to continuously improve Vulcan’s health & safety performance.
• Additional Responsibilities: Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Experience in supervising production employees at an aggregate, sand/gravel, or asphalt plant is preferred.
• Strong leadership and management skills to motivate and maintain social relationships among employees.
• Operational knowledge of rock and sand mining, ready-mix concrete and/or asphalt operations and equipment, MSHA regulations, engineering principles and procedures, and quality control systems and processes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to motivate and build teams, and effectively communicate with both internal and external audiences.
• Financial knowledge and experience managing financial performance to established targets.
• Flexibility to work outside in all types of weather conditions and tolerate exposure to loud noises.

Benefits

• Great Company Culture: Competitive drive for excellence in an environment of trust, teamwork, open-mindedness, and communication.
• Safe Work Environment: Industry leader in health and safety standards.
• Meaningful Work: Impact daily lives by contributing to infrastructure such as roads, schools, hospitals, airports, and housing throughout the United States.
• Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision programs, plus much more.
• Rest and Relaxation: Paid vacation, personal floating days, and paid holidays.
• Prepare for the Future: 401(k) with company match and contribution.
• Training and Development: Focused on helping employees meet their goals.