Asphalt Technical Manager

Job description / Role

Primary Purpose of the Job: to ensure overall operational excellence, including production, quality control/assurance, energy efficiency, maintenance, capital projects, environmental, health and safety issues, and personnel development.
- Overall supervision of asphalt productions and supply
- Supervise all on-site operations including land clearing, excavation, utilities laying, subgrade/sub-base laying, asphalt laying, asphalt paving, etc. and ensuring its implementation in alignment with the project plans and within the specified budget
- Ensure that all operations are being held as per the standard methods and procedures and complies with standards and regulations, and take all safety precautions, permits and licenses prior to work execution
- Calculation cost, estimates, budgets, and schedules
- Monitor operation expenses and research ways to reduce costs while maintaining product quality
- Analyze workforce requirements
- Plans operating schedules for maximum efficiency and maximum use of equipment
- Manager production, manpower, budgets, etc. for use in corporate business planning.
- Schedules maintenance of equipment and/or plants to insure maximum production capabilities.
- Manage and assist with researching new ways to cut costs and improve production.
- Manager and assist by following and ensuring compliance with government and corporate policies and objectives, including safety, personnel, insurance, work force needs, etc.
- Provide day-to-day management to the plant, operation and employees
- Complete and communicate calculations and reports for plant metrics such as manhours, product inventory, material and production costs, process codes, etc.
- Ensure safety, environmental and regulatory compliance for plant operations and products
- Oversee quality assurance and quality control compliance
- Act as point of contact for customers, sales, general public, government, tenders, projects and others.
- Oversee and schedule all contractors and maintenance related activities
- Create a culture focused on teamwork, effective communication and problem solving through daily discussion and decision making involvement
- Ensure plant practices align with overall business strategy and goals
- Produce creative solutions and use appropriate problem solving techniques to resolve plant issues such as formulation trouble, employee conflicts, material shortages, and process breakdowns.
- Maintain proper staffing and budget levels
- Utilize strategic planning in determining future needs of the operation
- Review production costs, taking action necessary to control those costs
- Participate actively in personnel matters and deal with employee problems and complaints.

Requirements

- Minimum 5 years management experience
- Minimum 5 years asphalt production experience
- Bituminous plant certification

About the Company

Human Capital House was set up in the year 2013 with a vision to be a progressive talent acquisition partner for organizations within the local and regional market in the Middle East.

As international markets get ever demanding, corporations globally are presented with the challenges of attracting the right talent. Human capital retention and recruitment remain a critical factor to the success of any company. Strategic decision to recruit the right talent is a key issue to organization as wrong candidate selection can potentially be disastrous to their efficiency.

The critical aspect of choosing the right individual with the apt experience and knowledge becomes more crucial as he/she would need to share the ambitions of the employer, while fitting in to the new culture. Human Capital House has both the experience and expertise to help its clients make the right choice of selection. From understanding client requirements, through identifying and assessing the candidates, our systematic approach strives to ensure successful executive recruitment.