Assistant Cement Plant Manager
About The Position
The Assistant Cement Plant Manager partners with the Plant Manager to lead safe, reliable, and efficient cement manufacturing operations and coordinate priorities across departments. The role drives plant performance throughout the cement manufacturing process, develops supervisors and department leaders, and coordinates production and maintenance priorities, including planned shutdowns and turnarounds. The position champions safety and environmental performance, advances continuous improvement and process optimization, and supports operating and capital planning. It uses production and financial data to improve performance, manage costs, prioritize investments, and develop action plans. The Assistant Cement Plant Manager steps in for the Plant Manager when needed, providing plant-wide leadership during operating issues, off-hours events, and other situations requiring management direction. The role is based in a heavy industrial cement manufacturing facility and requires regular presence throughout production, maintenance, and outdoor operational areas. Work may involve varying weather conditions, dust, noise, moving equipment, and elevated work areas. Appropriate PPE is required and provided.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to lead leaders and cross-functional teams while building a culture centered on safety, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Broad understanding of cement manufacturing or comparable heavy-process operations, including production, maintenance, reliability, quality, and environmental priorities.
- Ability to understand and improve complex manufacturing processes, interpret plant operating data, and translate performance trends into practical corrective actions.
- Working knowledge of process-control and maintenance-management systems and ability to use plant systems and operating data to support decisions.
- Capability to lead through plant disruptions, shutdowns, and changing operating conditions while coordinating employees, contractors, and technical resources and aligning safety and business priorities.
- Sound financial and business judgment, including ability to evaluate operating costs, budgets, performance variances, and capital investment opportunities.
- Ability to collaborate across plant functions and engage frontline, supervisory, technical, and leadership personnel to solve problems and deliver results.
- Technical education in engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent technical and operational capability developed through cement manufacturing experience.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Plant Manager to lead safe, reliable, and efficient cement manufacturing operations and coordinate priorities across departments.
- Drive plant performance using measures such as kiln availability, clinker and cement production, specific heat and power consumption, and overall equipment effectiveness.
- Lead and develop supervisors and department leaders by setting expectations, strengthening accountability, and building operational capabilities.
- Coordinate production and maintenance priorities, including planned shutdowns and turnarounds, to improve equipment reliability and execute work safely and effectively.
- Champion safety and environmental culture, reinforce safe work practices, support incident investigations, and maintain compliance with applicable requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement and process optimization with operations, maintenance, quality, engineering, and other plant teams to improve throughput, energy efficiency, reliability, quality, and operating cost.
- Support operating and capital planning by using production and financial data to assess performance, manage costs, prioritize investments, and develop action plans.
- Step in for the Plant Manager when needed and provide decisive plant-wide leadership during operating issues, off-hours events, and other situations requiring management direction.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary of $123,660 to $164,873 annually and participation in the annual incentive plan.
- Highly competitive benefits programs.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with automatic company contribution and matching contributions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
