Production Manager
JOB SUMMARY
This position must be able to work with all production and jobsite personnel at the Soda Springs, Idaho operation, in a professional manner to ensure production targets are achieved as required by the job schedule. This position must be able to prioritize duties and responsibilities to ensure that the production team succeeds.
JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each of the essential duties/responsibilities listed below. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties/responsibilities of this job.
• Collaboration with production and maintenance personnel in the execution of production activities in a manner that optimizes and maximizes the operational outputs.
• Provide strategic guidance to personnel in the production departments.
• Review performance reports through email and websites daily and at times develop these reports.
• Create a culture that strives for continuous improvement and implementing low-cost alternatives and solutions for operational activities.
• Manage all production personnel, to include hiring, scheduling, development, and discipline to ensure productive and safe operations.
• Meet with the foreman daily to review work plans and provide advice on directions and objectives.
• Review equipment and personnel performance tracking sheets and make decisions for improvements.
• Assist with mine planning, including managing multiple deposits.
• Develop and maintain vendor relationships following company guidelines.
• Actively strive for improvements in equipment, methods, and processes.
• Work with Maintenance to balance maintenance and production requirements and work to achieve them by understanding risks and opportunities weighed against potential value.
• Recommend and assist in the development of action plans to continuously improve the operational processes.
• Continually reinforce best safety practices and ensure that all aspects of the work meet all safety and environmental regulations.
• Oversee safety & incident investigations; initiate reports and recommendations for the implementation of corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence.
• Assist with the preparation of accurate annual cost and production budgets and update current fiscal year production and financial projections.
• Substitutes for the Project Manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must meet the minimum qualifications listed below. These qualifications are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to perform this job.
• Ability to teach, develop, empower, and mentor.
• Applicant must have effective written, visual, electronic, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage time effectively and set priorities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Ability to think under stressful and adverse conditions.
• Must have teamwork, problem solving and negotiation skills.
• The ability to work in conditions of extreme heat, extreme cold, vibration, chemicals including but not limited to airborne and/or skin exposure, high noise levels, confined spaces, and heights.
• Ability to ascend or descend ladders, scaffolding, stairs, ramps, and the like with agility.
• Availability to work outside of normal business hours as demanded by the conditions at the operations.
• Knowledge of basic computer functions in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, and Teams.
• Experience with Minestar Edge or other Production Tracking software a plus.
• Experience with shovels, off road trucks, and other large mining equipment.
• Experience with drill and blast programs.
Education and Experience: to perform this job successfully, an individual must have:
• High School Diploma or a General Education Degree
• Minimum of five (5) years related experience as a mine production superintendent or heavy civil construction superintendent or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Certificates/Licenses: To perform this job successfully, an individual must have:
• Valid Driver’s License
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Physical Abilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to:
• Regularly sit, stand, climb, walk, lift, pull/push, carry, grasp, reach, stoop/crouch, crawl, talk, hear
• Clearly see 20+ feet, with or without corrective lenses
Mental & Other Skills/Abilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must have:
• Adaptability: ability to adapt to changes, delays or unexpected events in the work environment; ability to manage competing demands and prioritize tasks; ability to change approach or method to best fit the situation.
• Analytical Ability: ability to maintain focus for extended periods of time; ability to complete research projects with resourcefulness and persistence; ability to synthesize complex or diverse information; ability to use intuition and experience to complement existing data.
• Computer/Technical Ability: working knowledge of:
o Word Processing software
o Spreadsheet software
o Accounting software
o Internet software
• Dependability: ability to follow instructions, both in written and verbal format; ability to respond to management direction; ability to complete tasks on time or notify the appropriate person with an alternate plan when necessary.
• Interpersonal Skills: ability to maintain satisfactory relationships with others, excellent customer service skills and a good overall understanding of appropriate human relations.
• Judgment: ability to make prudent and timely decisions; ability to exhibit sound and accurate judgment; ability to explain reasoning for decisions.
• Language Ability: ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; ability to write routine reports and correspondence; ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
• Mathematical Ability: ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Motor Coordination: the ability to coordinate eyes, hands, fingers, and feet accurately and handle precise movements.
• Problem Solving Ability: ability to identify and/or prevent problems before they occur; ability to formulate alternative solutions to problems when necessary; ability to transfer learning from past experiences to new experiences of similar nature.
• Quality Management: ability to complete duties, on time and with absolute precision, at least 95% of the time; ability to edit the accuracy and thoroughness of one’s work as well as the work of others; ability to constructively apply feedback to improve performance, ability to generate ideas to improve and promote quality in work.
• Reasoning Ability: ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Supervisory Skills: ability to carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Company’s policies and applicable laws. Applicable supervisory responsibilities include:
o Interviewing, hiring, training, and coaching employees
o Planning, assigning and directing work
o Reviewing performance
o Appraising/disciplining employees when necessary
o Addressing complaints and questions and resolving problems
