Location Manager

AUSTIN POWDER COMPANY; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Powder is seeking a Location Manager to oversee a regional customer service site. You will lead a 5–30 person team to deliver products and services with a focus on customer satisfaction and operational excellence.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and proven supervisory experience in a regulated industrial environment, with strong emphasis on safety, training, budgeting, and asset management. This is a hands-on, field-based leadership position.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and supervising a team in an industrial or construction setting.
• Strong training and mentorship abilities to develop staff.
• Knowledge of safety, environmental and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and hire employees and orient them for success.
• Conduct job-oriented training and mentorship for efficiency.
• Communicate assignments with clear feedback and accountability.
• Encourage growth and development into higher levels of responsibility.
• Assist investigations of accidents and safety concerns and take corrective action.
• Oversee site security standards and housekeeping guidelines.
• Provide required safety, health and task training for all staff.
• Participate in safety audits to maintain a safe work environment.
• Maintain condition and maintenance of property, facilities and equipment.
• Ensure inventory security and accountability of assets.
• Anticipate product needs and manage orders and deliveries.
• Record inventory movements to meet federal requirements.
• Manage location operating budget and monthly expenses.
• Plan capital expenditures for facilities and equipment.
• Track production hours and report to DoL/MSHA.
• Coordinate with sales to meet customer requirements and schedule work.
• Improve service requirements to boost customer satisfaction.
• Communicate customer and community concerns to company personnel.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Team leadership

Training & mentorship

Safety compliance

Operational planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Join the Family - Come work for an exciting company offering great benefits, challenging opportunities, and colleagues who feel more like family.

The Location Manager is the facility administrator and resource manager for an Austin Powder regional customer service location. The Location Manager will develop and lead a team of 5-30 direct reports through all activities to provide products and services delivering customer satisfaction through operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Recruit and hire employees, orient and train them for success in their positions.
• Conduct job-oriented training and mentorship to support their efficiency and success.
• Communicate work assignments and outcome expectations with feedback and accountability.
• Encourage and nurture employee growth and development into higher levels of responsibility.
• Participate in the investigation of accidents and/or employee relations and safety incidents and provide corrective action as appropriate.
• Adhere and oversee site security standards and housekeeping guidelines.
• Conduct and/or provide all required safety, health and task training for all location personnel as required.
• Participate in monthly and quarterly safety audits and observations; maintain a safe work environment.
• Accountable for the condition and maintenance of property, facilities and fixed and mobile equipment.
• Provide vigilant security for and accountability of inventory assets.
• Anticipate product needs and manage orders and deliveries to maintain inventory levels.
• Administer the electronic recordkeeping of inventory movements and usage to meet federal requirements.
• Manage the location annual operating budget and monthly expenses.
• Project capital expenditures for fixed facilities and mobile equipment.
• Track and report metal/non-metal and coal production hours to Department of Labor/MSHA.
• Coordinate with sales team to understand customer requirements and allocate and schedule work teams, vehicles and products to meet customer expectations.
• Understand and enhance service requirements to continually improve customer satisfaction.
• Communicate customer and community concerns to appropriate company personnel.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent. Relevant work experience may be substituted for some of the educational requirements.
• Experience leading and supervising a team, including training, individual and team development, performance management and coaching.
• Supervisory experience in an industrial or construction environment with responsibility for compliance with safety, environmental, inventory, maintenance and other regulatory requirements.
• Experience in the explosives industry is ideal, including experience with product delivery and down‑hole blasting operations.
• Clean work, legal and driving history that will satisfy the scrutiny of an ATF background check.
• Team player with a positive attitude, strong work ethic and a cooperative and pleasant demeanor.

Work Environment

This position at times will be required to work outside in all weather conditions in a hands‑on environment. Ability to walk, stand, sit, use hands to operate controls and work with tools, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk and hear is necessary for this role.

Equal Opportunity and E‑Verify

Austin Powder is an Equal Opportunity andAffirmative Action Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job‑related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Austin Powder also participates in E‑Verify. This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41CFR60-1.4(a),60-300.5(a) and60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing compensation. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

SINCE 1833, IMPROVING THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. Austin Powder has been making explosives for over 190 years and we take great pride in improving the world we live in. In 1833, the Austin family created the company to produce black powder that would help break the rock, mine the minerals and build the canals and railroads to develop the frontier. Initially along the banks of the Cuyahoga River near Akron, Ohio, we grew as the country grew. Today, Austin Powder is a world leader in the industrial explosives industry with a passionate commitment towards safety, a relentless customer focus, a family culture work environment, and a demonstration of respect of towards all. As in our early years, our mission continues to be to improve the world we live in through the safe and responsible use of explosives. Our success has been based on our core values and this has proven to be universally true around the globe as the company has expanded to be one of the leading providers of industrial explosives and blasting services in the world.