Prep Plant Foreman

Job Details

Description

Position Purpose:

Manage the preparation plant cleaning and loading processes during one shift, ensuring the safety, quality, and quantity budgets are met.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Direct supervision of a work force, which includes assigning work, accounting time, days off, safety contacts and observations.
• Monitor plant performance to ensure quality product during shift, authorize adjustments to meet standard.
• Direct preventive maintenance processes on shift to ensure plant runs at maximum efficiency.
• Maintain records which include but are not limited to, plant performance, overtime, idle day work, time sheets, shipments, and downtime.
• Ensures that work in assigned area is completed in compliance with state and federal laws, and company policy.
• Detect and supervise the correction of any defect in material, equipment, or structure in assigned area.
• Ensure the refuse area is maintained according to current plan.

Other Duties/Responsibilities

• Weekly safety meetings with employees.
• Complete any and all required state and federal reports.

Position Qualifications

• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Knowledge of modern coal preparation plants, related heavy equipment and refuse impoundments.
• Knowledge of PLC’s
• Knowledge and ability to make decisions relative to production, maintenance, law, safety, and problems.
• Organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to supervise and motivate employees.
• Education and/or Training:
• WV Safety Sensitive Certification
• Minimum of three years preparation experience.
• Emergency Medical Technician for mining preferred.
• Quality control experience preferred.

Materials and Equipment Used:

• Computer.
• PLCs
• Various electrical, mechanical, and quality testing devises.

Physical Abilities:

• Must be able to lift 21-50 pounds occasionally, frequently up to 25 pounds, up to 10 pounds constantly