Hot Plant Operator

Location Address: 6685 West 5400 South West Valley UT 84120

Compensation:

$26/hour - $30/hour depending on experience

Ready for a fast-paced job where you can provide the literal groundwork that connects communities together? Join Summit Materials – a construction materials company leading the industry – where we build the foundation for a better tomorrow.

Summit Materials consists of more than a dozen local companies that supply aggregates, cement, ready-mix concrete, asphalt paving, and construction services in the United States and western Canada. At Summit Materials, we support our teammates who lay the groundwork for our communities and live by our core values: Safety, Integrity, Sustainability, and Inclusivity. We re passionate about our teammates, our work, and our communities. Each of Summit s companies celebrates their individual legacies, but together - we are Summit Materials.

Benefits

We care for you and your family: We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans to support the health of you and your family.

We prepare for the unexpected: We offer life insurance, long-term disability, and short-term disability coverage at no cost to you.

We invest in your career growth with Summit Materials and beyond: Get access to our Discover Learning catalog with thousands of available courses to support your professional and personal development. You can learn on-demand, at your own pace, and from any device.

We embrace your well-being: We know that your well-being is more than just physical. We re here to provide teammates with the resources and tools they need to stay healthy and feel supported, including an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with free counseling, financial resources, and more.

We support your personal goals: We provide a financial foundation as you plan for the future. Our programs, like our 401(k) plan where we match up to 4% of your annual income, are designed to help you prepare and reach your goals for you and your family.

We give you time to recharge: We offer our teammates Paid Time Off (PTO) so they can recharge and relax with family and friends.

Overview

Kilgore, a Summit Material company, is looking for Leadman/Operators at our Hot Plants.

Roles & Responsibilities

• In the absence of the Pit Supervisor, the leadman is responsible for ALL site activities.
  • Responsible for the Health and Welfare of the crew and ensuring the site meets or exceeds MSHA Standards
  • Responsible for the administration of the Summit Safety Principles
• Responsible for the safe operation of the plant
• Responsible for obtaining the maximum production at the plant
• Ensures that quality products are being produced within internal and external specifications
• Compiles all data so that timecards, maintenance logs, production logs, etc., can be completed
• Implement the Plant Program
  • Daily Production Schedule
  • Daily Maintenance Schedule
    • Parts requisitions from Site Manager
  • Communicate with crew members frequently to ensure best operational practices at the plant
  • Monitors compliance with fugitive dust from the plant

Skills & Experience

• Experience Required
  • 2 years
• Training Required (Kilgore will provide training upon hiring)
  • Required MSHA training
  • Site Specific Training, including site inspection training
  • Plant Operation Task Training
• Daily Duties
  • Daily Equipment Inspection
    • Maintenance logs
    • Production logs
    • Timecards
    • Oversee inspection and repair of equipment
    • Required daily and monthly plant inspections
    • Any safety or mechanical issues to be reported to supervisor immediately.
    • Equipment inspection log to be turned in daily.
    • Do not run equipment without performing the inspection.
  • Operation of equipment
    • Equipment is to be operated in a safe and efficient manner.
    • Operator shall not idle equipment when not in use. Turn it off.
    • Equipment Cab and Control House will be kept clean, wiped down and maintained
  • Site observations
    • The plant operator shall constantly visually inspect plant operations.
    • Monitor feed material coming from the loader to ensure it will allow for the best performance of the plant and the final products produced will be of the highest quality
  • Productivity
    • Meet or Enhance
      • Scheduled Uptime
      • Scheduled Operating Efficiency
      • Scheduled Labor costs
      • Maintenance costs
    • It is the plant operator s role to ensure that production goals are achieved. It is the plant operator responsibility to communicate goal progress to his supervisor and crew. These production goals include but not limited to Uptime and Operating Efficiency
  • Safety
    • Adhere to training received
    • Company Safety Standards
      • You see it, you own it – if you see a problem, you are to take the initiative to fix the problem.
      • Stop the job – Every person who as on a Kilgore site is empowered and expected to stop the job when unsafe behavior is being displayed
      • Summit Safety Principles