POSITION DESCRIPTION The primary focus of the Operations Manager position is to perform all duties associated with maintaining a safe and productive work environment for the recycling operation and involves regular communication with all Management, Administration, Warehouse, Maintenance, and Transportation staff.
The Operations Manager – Facility must also be a:
- Leader – outgoing, flexible, and capable of leading a team of professionals with a positive attitude.
- Strategic planner – successful in implementation.
- Communicator – able to work with a diverse group of staff that includes production, maintenance, and transportation personnel in both English and Spanish.
- Thinker – comfortable with complex problem solving.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Manage all production shifts as well as any shift supervisors or assistants.
- Responsible for creating a productive, efficient, and safe production facility, including intake of recycling material, material processing, and material shipping.
- Ensure quality recycling production through training, inspection, and quality control.
- Ensure proper grading of all inbound material with a particular focus on downgraded or contaminated loads.
- Ensure all duties are performed on shift, including unloading trailers, loading trailers, processing baskets, processing gaylords, processing bunkers, processing direct feed material, and processing main tip floor material.
- Maintain a clean and organized facility, including grounds outside the warehouse.
- Perform daily facility inspections with a particular focus on safety and organization. Assign corrections to all deficiencies to be completed before the end of each production shift.
- Ensure all pre-shift operations inspections are completed and any deficiencies are reported to the maintenance staff.
- Manage inbound and outbound traffic through utilization of warehouse staff.
- Notify maintenance of any equipment damage or issues that affect safety or performance.
- Coordinate with transportation to ensure efficient unloading of material hauled by company drivers.
- Manage all hiring responsibilities including review of the employee handbook and completion of all pre-employment paperwork.
- Assist the General Manager in warehouse personnel human resources administrative tasks, such as timesheets, time off requests, payroll change requests, scheduling, performance improvement plans, and terminations.
- Manage all injury and accident reporting, including any post-accident follow up in collaboration with the company’s Environmental, Health, and Safety Officer and Human Resources.
- Manage the inputting of all plant related production data on a daily basis through daily production and uptime reports.
- Uphold the monthly safety assurance program.
- Fill in for the Shift Supervisors or Assistant Managers when needed.
- Operate the inbound and outbound scale as needed.
REQUIRED SKILLS & ABILITIES
- Experience in recycling, waste management, manufacturing, or similar industry in a plant or facility management role.
- Experience in and strong understanding of inventory management.
- Strong organizational, analytical, financial, and decision-making skills.
- Strong ability to manage budgeted dollars and provide in-depth analysis of variances (over and under) from budget.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Associates degree and/or 5 plus years of experience in a plant or general management role.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Up to 15%, dependent on travel restrictions of the area and/or Company
WORKING CONDITIONS
- Regularly use hands and fingers to handle or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms
- Frequently required to sit, walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, squat, kneel, crawl, speak and hear.
- Must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds
- Vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
Balcones Resources is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Balcones is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Balcones are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Balcones will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
