Continuous Improvement Analyst- North Region

Job Posting    

• [Company] is seeking a qualified Continuous Improvement Analyst to support our Northern Region. This position will be based in the Mid West area of our North Region.
• The Continuous Improvement Analyst, North Region, will be a key contributor in the recently developed CLIMB Program. CLIMB has the clearly stated goal of achieving a sustainable best in class margin performance in aggregates. The Continuous Improvement Teams will work with Region leadership, CCM leadership, and staff at our quarries to identify margin improvement opportunities in our aggregate plants. The Continuous Improvement teams will support line management with skills to deliver best in class performance and realize long-term sustainable savings.
• The Continuous Improvement Analyst will assist in enhancing the technical competence and operational excellence of our organization, in relation to sales, QC and production.
• This role is an excellent position for anyone who has some quarry experience and wants to develop a broad range of skills that could lead to further quarry management opportunities.

Essential Responsibilities and Tasks

The Continuous Improvement Analyst will be responsible for:

• Assisting the Continuous Improvement Manager to lead the optimization process at selected aggregate operations.
• Working with local managers to identify commercial and production process best practices and then bring awareness of these best practices to other operations.
• Gaining proficiency in the technical aspects of sales, QC, production processes and general management aspects of the business.
• Identifying new product opportunities, develop benchmarking studies, coordinate peer based site reviews and support improvement discussions with the Plant and Area Management.
• Following through on improvement opportunities and provide assistance to local management to realize improvement goals.
• Transferring best practices across the organization, and deliver training modules in conjunction with the HC Aggregate Academy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering or related field, or at least 2 years of experience in the aggregate or related industry; or an equivalent combination of both.
• Good communication and project management skills. Ability to play an active part in projects that require interfaces with multiple stakeholders and differing levels of management.
• Desire to understand the commercial, technical and financial aspects of the business and how they relate to each other, including investment evaluations.
• Desire to learn the ability to diagnose and optimize production steps for blasting, loading & hauling, crushing & screening, loadout, maintenance, extraction and site management. Ability to relate above processes to site geology and commercial markets.
• Ability to apply technical recommendations in a pragmatic, hands on way to the actual operating environment.
• Desire to engage in change management.
• Ability to think outside the box and to identify best practices and transfer this knowledge across the organization.
• Knowledge of Aggflow, AggQC and proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Willingness to travel across North America and spend a significant portion of time in an industrial environment.