Senior Division Manager

Hulcher Services Inc.; Bondurant (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hulcher Services Inc. in the Midwest seeks a senior operations manager to lead division-level safety, maintenance, and people management across multiple sites.

You will drive strategic planning, staffing, budgeting, and on-call responses to derailments or environmental remediation, while building customer relationships and ensuring compliant, high-quality service. This role requires five or more years of management experience and a valid driver's license, with up to 75% travel.

Qualifications

• High School Graduate
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• A valid driver’s license
• Extensive knowledge of state permits requirements and procedures
• Five+ years’ direct management in derailment or environmental services operations
• Strong ability to communicate technical information to all types of people
• multitask and coordinate conflicting priorities
• Strong analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills
• Must be able to lift/carry materials up to 50 lbs

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of Safety Program for each Division (training, coaching, incident investigation)
• Oversee Mechanical preventative Maintenance program (oversight, training, guidance)
• Staffing, recruiting, training, cross-training, retention and scheduling
• Ensure asset utilization and profitability across divisions
• Maintain quality and customer satisfaction through regular updates and audits
• Handle major derailments or environmental remediation responses
• Develop and monitor budgets and market strategies
• Hire, train, supervise, evaluate performance, and counsel division staff
• Ensure administrative requirements are completed in a timely manner
• Perform other incidental duties as required

Skills

People leadership

Operations management

Communication skills

Safety compliance

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

High School Diploma

Job description

Description

General Summary: This senior position ensures company and customer needs and requirements are met through management of human resources, equipment and allocated financial support for an allocated geographical area.

Positions reporting to this position: Division Manager(s), Assistant Division Managers, Administrative Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities

Key responsibilities under Hulcher’s Five Cornerstones included below:

Take ownership of the Safety Program for each Division, including responsibility for:

• Training
• Coaching
• Root Cause Analysis
• Incident Investigation
• Enforcement of Safety rules and procedures both in the shop and on jobs

Responsible for Mechanical preventative Maintenance program for each Division, including:

• Oversight
• Training
• Guidance
• Monitor Compliance

Accountability for the People Cornerstone including:

• Staffing and Recruiting
• Training and Cross Training
• Ensure consistent management of people
• Retention, including managing of time off programs including Stress Days

Responsible for Asset Utilization for each Division including:

• Diversification
• Awareness of and responding to Competition in your markets
• Financial Growth and Profitability
• Monitor utilization of every piece of equipment
• Monitor and efficiently manager utilization of labor
• Ensure proper staffing levels

Appraise Quality and Image of facility

• Division being operated at an acceptable level
• Audit worthy at all times
• Ensure quality of product is exceptional
• Customer Satisfaction – Solicit and gain sincere feedback
• Responsible completion, quality and timely submission of daily updates

Additional Duties and Responsibilities and additional detailed expectations:

• Determines goals/objectives of area and individuals assigned in order to provide customer service needs
• Develops plans for efficient use of materials, machines, and employees and determines staff requirements for area
• Prepares, implements and monitors proper allocation and scheduling of personnel in order to respond to customer needs on an emergency and non-emergency basis
• Develops, implements and monitors safety measures in order to prevent accidents/injuries and trains managers on all aspects of equipment and site supervision
• Ensures timely preventive maintenance and repair of equipment in assigned area
• Reviews costs and modifies operations to maintain and enhance profitable operation of divisions
• Evaluates quality of service and effectiveness of managers and divisions
• Plans, monitors, and accepts accountability for budget
• Responds to major derailments or emergency environmental remediation/services or non-emergency jobs in order to resolve customer concerns, analyze needs and/or sales opportunities, and assist with operations
• Reviews operations of competing organizations and assists in job bid processing when required
• Conducts operation analysis of assigned area in order to plan response to market/customer needs
• Plans and assists in sales program to develop markets; assists in development of market strategy
• Meets with customers to support marketing or operational endeavors
• Hires, trains, and supervises, regularly evaluates performance and counsels division staff. Performance evaluation including RREs and PDPs and/or PIPs when appropriate.
• Rewards and disciplines employees.
• Ensures proper orientation of staff into the organization
• Ensures training program is implemented for managers, operators and laborers within area of responsibility
• Addresses complaints and resolves problems for employees and customers
• Ensures administrative requirements of divisions are completed in a timely manner
• Performs other incidental and related duties as required.

Requirements

Educational Requirements: High School Graduate

Preferred Education: bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Required Certification/Licensure: (All Divisions) A valid driver's license. Extensive knowledge of the State permits requirements and procedures.

Experience Requirements:

Five or more years’ direct management experience in derailment or environmental services operations

Knowledge/ Skills:

Strong ability to effectively communicate technical information to all types of people, both verbally and in writing; multitask and coordinate confusing and often conflicting priorities; strong communication, decision-making, analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills

Physical Demands: Must be able to lift/carry materials up to 50lbs.

Travel: Subject to long, irregular hours and 24-hour on-call availability. Must be able to travel 75% of the time. Driving for extended periods. On call 24/7 unless on scheduled for time off.

Working Conditions: Indoor and external working environments. Regularly exposed to noisy, loud environment; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; and outside weather conditions. Some exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, explosives, risk of radiation, and vibration.

Position Interacts With (indicate internal and external contacts):

Company and subsidiary company staff and management; and customers, contract staff, suppliers and vendors