The Shift Foreman’s primary purpose is to supervise, coordinate and schedule the activities of all mine operations personnel and management for their respective shift and department.
: Optimize utilization of resources and achieve overall mine operations safety and production objectives by supervising, coordinating, and scheduling the activities of mine operations personnel.
Essential Functions (90%)
- Supervise, coordinate, and schedule the activities of all mine operations personnel.
- Provide leadership to all mining activities, ensuring work is being completed in a safe, efficient, and timely manner.
- Control all allocated labor to ensure maximum availability of resources by managing absenteeism and taking corrective action where applicable.
- Coordinate resources to maintain and enhance critical equipment performance and availability through best business practices.
- Supervise, train, and develop assigned team members as required.
- Establish good working relationships with other departments.
Production, Efficiency and Cost Control
- Coordinate equipment usage to ensure efficient and effective achievement of operational objectives.
- Analyze equipment rates and make changes to daily operational plans as necessary, based on mining conditions.
- Ensure achievement of production targets by maintaining operational objectives
- Ensures all administrative data for the operations is generated accurately and in a timely manner; including all equipment and personnel time sheets and logbooks as well as daily diaries and production reports as required.
- Ensure that all records on equipment utilization (i.e., hours, pre-start checklists and utilized hours, are recorded daily)
- Report performance breakdowns, equipment damage, safety near misses, incidents, and accidents according to established procedures
- Implement short- and long-term operational plans and objectives, in accordance with production plan requirements.
- Assesses employee performance against objectives on a regular basis as per Company policy and take corrective action where required.
- Implement and maintain operating procedures to ensure safe and effective operation of the mine.
Safety
- Improve on safety standards by holding safety meetings, conducting safety interactions, and taking corrective action where required.
- Ensure adherence to State, Federal and Company workplace policies and standard work procedures for risk identification, risk assessment and risk control.
- Maintain a high level of Safety performance through effective communication, monitoring, and revision of standard work procedures.
- Identify and report safety risks, accidents, incidents, injuries, and property damage at the workplace.
- Attend and participate in all scheduled safety meetings and training.
- Investigate accidents and RPI’s with a view toward prevention.
Additional Functions (10%)
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Physical Analysis (as a percent of workday):
- 30% - Standing while in mine facility or underground.
- 50% - Walking underground in mine
- 5% - Climbing stairs around belt crossovers.
- <5% - Climbing ladders.
- <5% - Balancing on stairs, ladders, and along belt line.
- 5% - Stooping while examining areas around belt lines or equipment underground.
- 5% - Kneeling
- 5% - Crouching
- 10% - Forward reaching
- <5% - Bended reaching
- <5% - Handling shovels, water hoses, grease guns
- 75% - Talking to communicate with mine personnel and subordinates.
- 100% - Vision must be good as required for traveling about the mine and safety.
- 100% - Hearing for communications and safety.
- <5% - Lifting various objects up to 25 pounds.
- <5% - Carrying various objects or materials up to 25 pounds.
Other Requirements:
- First responder certification
- Job Description may change as job requirements change