Night Shift Lead Person

Vulcan Materials Company; Antioch (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vulcan Materials Company seeks a Lead person to support daily plant operations and management, prioritizing safety and compliance. The role involves outdoor work, training others, and troubleshooting production issues while coordinating with supervisors and management.

Candidate should have mining or construction experience, strong communication skills, and the stamina to perform physical tasks, including lifting up to 50 pounds and working long shifts as needed.

Qualifications

• Must have good written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and have excellent driving skills.
• Experience in mining or construction environments preferred.
• Ability to stand, walk, or sit for extended periods and lift up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Assist Operations Management in daily plant activities and operations.
• Ensure safety of employees, visitors, and themselves.
• Enforce company and regulatory policies.
• May conduct site-specific training for employees and vendors.
• Troubleshoot production issues and communicate work assignments.
• Coordinate daily plant activities and decisions with management.
• Report plant and employee needs to supervisors.

Skills

Safety Leadership

Communication

Troubleshooting

Training

Decision Making

Physical stamina

Team coordination

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Driver's license

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Lead person assists Operations Management in daily plant activities and operations, ensuring safety and compliance. They may conduct training, troubleshoot issues, and communicate work assignments. The role requires physical labor and outdoor work, with potential overtime and reassignment to other plant duties.

Job Summary

The Lead person assists Operations Management in daily plant activities and operations, ensuring safety and compliance. They may conduct training, troubleshoot issues, and communicate work assignments. The role requires physical labor and outdoor work, with potential overtime and reassignment to other plant duties.

Essential Functions

• Assists Operations Management in the daily coordination of plant activities and operations, making sound decisions.
• Responsible for the safety of employees, visitors, and themselves.
• Enforces all Company and regulatory policies, rules, and regulations.
• May conduct site-specific training for employees, vendors, and others at the facility.
• Assists in troubleshooting production issues.
• Communicates with employees regarding work assignments and correcting problems.
• Conduct site-specific training for employees, vendors, or other persons at the facility.
• Communication with managers and supervisors regarding plant and employee needs.

Critical Competencies

• Personal Accountability: Honoring your commitments to yourself and others. Acknowledging and correcting your own mistakes. Taking full ownership to address and fix problems vs. deflecting blame to others.
• Decision Making: Makes informed, effective, and timely decisions by evaluating available information, considering potential outcomes, and choosing the best course of action; analyzes options, weighs risks and benefits, and uses sound judgment to reach decisions that align with organizational goals and values.
• Safety Awareness- Ability to recognize, understand, and adhere to safety protocols and procedures in the workplace; proactive in identifying potential hazards, taking steps to mitigate risks, and ensuring that both personal and collective safety are maintained in all tasks and environments.
• Communication: Ability to clearly and effectively convey information, ideas, and messages to others in both written and verbal formats; can express one's thoughts clearly but also demonstrate active listening, understands the needs of the audience, and adapts the message to ensure it is understood.
• Communication and Training: Ability to evaluate operator reports, provide clear and constructive feedback, and train inexperienced personnel.
• Problem Solving- identify, analyze, and resolve work-related issues efficiently and effectively using practical knowledge, experience, and hands-on skills. This involves identifying the problem, diagnosing the cause, finding practical solutions, implementing fixes, and adapting to unexpected challenges.
• Processing Knowledge- Understands the material flow, crushing, screening and stockpiling process of an aggregate operation. Understands how to adjust plant settings for optimal production efficiency and troubleshoot inefficiencies.
• Adaptability: Adjusts to new conditions, challenges, or changes in the work environment; demonstrate the ability to be flexible, open-minded, and resilient when facing shifting priorities, unforeseen obstacles, or evolving situations; responds positively to change, learns new skills when necessary, and maintains high performance even in unfamiliar or uncertain circumstances.
• Work Ethic- Demonstrates commitment and dedication toward completing tasks with high standards of quality, responsibility, and diligence; demonstrates reliability, professionalism, and a strong sense of personal responsibility in fulfilling job duties.

Education

• A High School Diploma is preferred

Experience

• Previous experience in the mining or construction industry.
• Exhibit high levels of competency, skill and proficiency in daily mining operations.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Must have good written and verbal communication skills.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and have excellent driving skills.
• Communicate with employees regarding work assignments and correcting problems.
• Assist in troubleshooting production issues.

Other Requirements

• Must be able to work outside in all types of weather conditions and tolerate being exposed to loud noises.
• May work in a variety of assignments with experience and growth, such as assisting with financial reports, payroll, or procurement activities.
• Must be able to stand, walk, or sit for extended periods; grip, climb, reach, shovel, squat, crawl, pull, push, bend, and lift 50 pounds.
• May be required to wear a respirator.
• Must be able to work required overtime, which may include up to or more than 12 hours per day and up to 7 days per week.
• Some level of environmental reporting responsibility.
• Fill in for absent employees due to vacation, sickness, etc.
• Positions may be reassigned to other duties in the plant as required.

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Vulcan Materials Company is an equal opportunity employer.