Pit Supervisor

Responsibilities

• Supervision of day-to-day operations, maintenance, and repair activities.
• Assist in the management of the Pit workforce.
• Responsible for SHE, quality assurance, employee relations, cost control, and budgeting activities.
• Ensure team members have radios, tools, and safety equipment that are being utilized and functioning at the beginning and during the work day.
• Daily Tasks: Ensure a good understanding of daily tasks through job briefing and have good radio communication.
• Evaluate team member’s performance.
• Order parts only with the approval of Plant Manager.
• Schedule the loading of trains coming on our site.
• Manage budgets, ensuring the operating area works within a defined budget and managing costs within set budgetary guidelines.
• Enforce safety and company policies, conduct pre-shift safety and job briefing meetings, ensure team members are wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), conduct a hazard assessment of the work area, and inform team members of safety hazards found.
• Manage the operation of the pit and stripping areas, pit and primary equipment repair and maintenance.
• Coordinate work with all areas of the pit.
• Ensure production levels are at an optimum with a minimum of downtime and mobile equipment is operated correctly.
• Create a strong working relationship with suppliers and vendors.
• Motivate others and effectively accomplish tasks through others is essential.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in supervising production employees, preferably at either an aggregate, sand/gravel, or asphalt plant.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Knowledge and understanding 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, able to form strong social relationships and effectively communicate with both internal and external audiences.
• Financial knowledge, possessing knowledge and experience leading financial performance to established targets, meeting or exceeding performance goals.
• Able to work outside in all types of weather conditions and tolerate being exposed to loud noises.