Assistant Plant Manager - North Vancouver, Canada - Lafarge Canada Inc

Lafarge Canada Inc

Verified Company

North Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we're committed to shaping a

greener,

smarter and

healthier world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,

safety comes first,

collaboration matters and

diversity is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually

make our materials better.
Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview:

Assist the Plant Manager in planning, coordination and supervision of the ongoing activities at various GVA plant operations to achieve all targets, budgets, objectives and goals.

Responsibilities:

Safety Culture:

Assist the plant manager in promoting the safety culture through engagement with employees, visual leadership, and implementation and maintenance of local and regional initiatives with an objective of "zero" safety incidents. Adhere, administer, and promote safety policies, processes and execute procedures to ensure that the site meets or exceeds all Lafarge and regulatory guidelines.
Financial Management: Assist in forecasting and scheduling production to balance inventories and sales needs to manage and minimize working capital impact. Promote a culture of performance and exceeding expected results. Contribute towards accurate forecasting. Adhere to purchasing policies, procedures, and directives. Provide costeffective solutions for onsite problems.
Customer Focus: Assist the plant manager in planning to ensure production meets forecasted demand while serving customers with timely shipping strategies and qualityassured products. Engage with Sales and other stakeholders to provide solution selling.
Production Management: Assist the plant manager in the execution of production plans, making adjustments to meet Key Performance Indicators (KPI's). Employ daily communication process to drive group efficiencies and manage production performance.
Labour Management /

People Development:

Assist the plant manager in the development, motivation, scheduling and training of production personnel to promote customer focus and operational efficiency.

Provide leadership for employees by working closely with them on a daily basis. Contribute to development of emerging leaders. Provide effective delegation of tasks with accountability.

Land Management/

Community Relations:
Assist the plant manager in ensuring that site meets or exceeds all Lafarge and Regulatory guidelines. Conduct site operations with mínimal negative impact on surrounding environment and communities. Support effective relationships within the community by participating in local activities/events.

Specific Accountabilities:

Safety: Near Miss reporting, MVA's, FA's, MI's, LTI's, Safety inspections/reports, WAH/Confined Space permits,
Risk assessments, JHSC meeting, VFL's, Traffic management, Adherence to LOTOTO, Policies and procedures
Land: Dust and Noise control
Labor: Shift Schedules, Incident investigation reporting, Stakeholder relations, Operational efficiency, Staff training/mentoring/evaluating, Production reporting
Production: Manufacturing KPI's, Maintenance management, Daily/weekly/monthly production sheets & meeting,
Production planning, Inventory Reconciliation, Downtime reports, Preventative Maintenance Planning,
Mobile Equipment Maintenance Preventative Maintenance
Customer Focus: Shipping staff/process management, Production plan execution, Product quality assurance
Financial: Accurate forecasts, Adherence to purchasing policies and procedures, order taking/placing, generating cost effective business solutions

Job-Specific Competency Profile:

Action oriented Delegation
Managerial Courage
Dealing with ambiguity Managing diversity
Motivating others
Business acumen
Innovation Management
Organizing
Conflict Management Intellectual Horsepower
Negotiating
Dealing with Paradox Customer Focus
Listening
Priority setting Problem solving
Process Management
Building effective teams
Time Management
Written Communications

Dimensions:

Reports to Plant Manager, Various Sites
Direct Reports (Applicable Foreman)
Effective utilize Assets
Supervision of Personnel

SAP:

Process Facility
Extraction Facility
Procure to Pay (P2P)
Business Warehouse (BW)
Plant Maintenance (PM)
Production Planning (PP)

Reporting/Other Systems:

Qlik View
7B
DWOR

Delta Program Toolkit

Meetings (daily/weekly/monthly)
Short Interval Controls (SIC) Sheet
Visual Tracking (i.e. White Boards)
Perfect Day & Walk Your Site
Action Log
Opportunity Log
Root-CauseAnalysis
Skills Flexibility Matrix

Qualifications:

Recent graduate from a university/college with civil engineering/business degree/diploma
Interest in a longterm career in business, engineering, and construction with a goal to pursue
One to three years of industry experience.
Construction Safety Officer (CSO).
Experience with