Plant Manager

About the role

The Plant Manager is responsible for overseeing all daily operations of our sand and gravel facility, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production of materials. This role provides leadership across plant operations, personnel management, equipment oversight, quality control, environmental compliance, and community relations.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the daily operations, personnel, equipment, quality, community relations and safety and environmental compliance at the sand and gravel operation to ensure efficient material production.
• Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to health, safety and environmental policies in all work environments and areas.
• Promote a culture of safety and exhibit these behaviors.
• Overseeing material offloading, screening, drying, and stockpiling of materials. Embraces best practices, processes and tools to ensure plant activities are optimized and costs are best in class.
• Effectively utilizes maintenance programs to maximize plant up-time and manage costs
• Ensuring full compliance with MSHA and Amrize safety regulations to maintain a safe working environment.
• Managing subcontractor relationships, ensuring strong communication with vendors and suppliers.
• Managing heavy machinery on a limited footprint, including loaders, conveyors, customer trucks.
• Scheduling staff, coordinating trucks, and managing inventory through coordination with sales team and quality control to meet customer demand.
• Supervising union/non-union workforce, fostering positive employee relations to ensure a safe and productive work environment.
• Developing operational and capital plans designed to continuously improve productivity and maintain appropriate operating costs.
• Preparing budgets and forecasts. Prepares rolling 12 month production forecasts monthly and works closely with sales.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent
• Additional Education Preferred: Bachelor’s degree
• Field of Study Preferred: Business, Engineering
• Required Work Experience: 3 years’ plus experience working in materials production (sand, gravel, aggregate)
• Additional Requirements:
• Good, planning, scheduling and interpersonal skills
• Previous supervisor experience to include understandings of unions
• Experience championing safety culture; demonstrable understanding of working safely with heavy equipment and energy sources
• Proficient computer skills to include Inventory tracking, spreadsheets and word
• Ability to recognize and resolve production problems
• Experience meeting production goals while maintaining the integrity of the safety program.
• Needs to have a basic working knowledge of several of the following: electrical systems, hydraulic systems, pumps, motors, and conveyors.
• Successful candidates must adhere to all safety protocols and proper use of Amrize approved personal protection equipment, including but not limited to respirators. Employees that are required to wear respirators must be clean shaven where the respirator seal meets the face in order to pass the qualitative and quantitative fit tests

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Retirement Savings: Choose from 401(k) pre-tax and/or Roth after-tax savings
• Medical, Dental, Disability and Life Insurance
• Holistic Health & Well-being programs
• Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) & Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for health and dependent care
• Vision and other Voluntary benefits and discounts
• Paid time off & paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave (maternity & paternity)
• Educational Assistance Program
• Dress for your day

Pay

Competitive salary

Schedule

N/A