Assistant Shift Foreman

Warrior Met Coal•Brookwood, AL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Shift Foreman's primary purpose is to supervise, coordinate, and schedule the activities of all mine operations personnel. This role provides leadership to all mining activities, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and in a timely manner. The Assistant Shift Foreman controls allocated labor to ensure maximum availability of resources by managing absenteeism and taking corrective action. They coordinate resources to maintain and enhance critical equipment performance and availability through best business practices. This role also involves supervising, training, and developing assigned team members, and establishing good working relationships with other departments.

Requirements

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.
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 log books 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 on a daily basis.)
Report performance breakdowns, equipment damage, safety near misses, incidents and accidents according to established procedures.
Implement daily, weekly and monthly 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.
Implement actions to optimize mining process performance and attain efficiency targets in the areas of: labor productivity, equipment availability, utilization, and material consumption.
Participate actively with the technical services group to support the development of optimum mining short and long-term plans.
Develop and implement area work ownership with resources to maintain appropriate balance of workload with priority to equipment availability.
Investigate accidents and near misses with a view toward positive action, emphasis on prevention through training, equipment set-up or equipment repair and report on findings and conclusions.
Identify haul roads and dumpsites that need repair and ensure deviations are rectified.
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 on all scheduled safety meetings and training.
Investigate accidents and near misses with a view toward positive action, through training, equipment set-up or equipment repair and report on findings and conclusions.
Maintain environmental awareness amongst workforce by holding meetings and involving the environmental department in related subjects.
Ensure adherence to environmental policy, work standards, management plans and regulatory obligations and requirements.
Integrate environmental policies, programs, and practices into all activities of the organization.

Responsibilities

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.
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 log books 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 on a daily basis.)
Report performance breakdowns, equipment damage, safety near misses, incidents and accidents according to established procedures.
Implement daily, weekly and monthly 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.
Implement actions to optimize mining process performance and attain efficiency targets in the areas of: labor productivity, equipment availability, utilization, and material consumption.
Participate actively with the technical services group to support the development of optimum mining short and long-term plans.
Develop and implement area work ownership with resources to maintain appropriate balance of workload with priority to equipment availability.
Investigate accidents and near misses with a view toward positive action, emphasis on prevention through training, equipment set-up or equipment repair and report on findings and conclusions.
Identify haul roads and dumpsites that need repair and ensure deviations are rectified.
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 on all scheduled safety meetings and training.
Investigate accidents and near misses with a view toward positive action, through training, equipment set-up or equipment repair and report on findings and conclusions.
Maintain environmental awareness amongst workforce by holding meetings and involving the environmental department in related subjects.
Ensure adherence to environmental policy, work standards, management plans and regulatory obligations and requirements.
Integrate environmental policies, programs, and practices into all activities of the organization.