About the Role
This role offers challenging opportunities within a family-like culture. It involves leading and maintaining high awareness, preparation, and response to safety, security, and regulatory compliance risks, aligning with company values of Safety as 1st Priority, Customer Focused, Respect, and the Power of Family.
Responsibilities
- Lead and maintain high awareness, preparation, and response to safety, security, and regulatory compliance risks.
- Lead by conscious choices aligned with company values of Safety as 1st Priority, Customer Focused, Respect, and the Power of Family.
- Establish agreed upon goals and objectives for direct reports with measurable outcomes and/or key performance indicators.
- Coach, manage, and develop direct reports to understand KPI measures and budgets.
- Address behaviors and discipline consistently.
- Ensure the company has talent to execute strategies by hiring and developing a strong team and making succession planning a core business process.
- Communicate clear and consistent legal and ethical standards and ensure organizational compliance.
- Audit and observe locations and job sites routinely.
- Possess thorough knowledge of product's physical and chemical properties and safety precautions for handling, storing, and transporting.
- Manage inventory, fixed, and mobile assets in conjunction with budgetary guidelines and cost management (e.g., equipment and personnel utilization) with the Sales Manager.
- Coordinate site setups, closures, and asset placements.
- Participate in investigations of accidents and incidents to determine root cause and communicate findings.
- Negotiate requirements with vendors and monitor expenses.
- Assist in developing and enforcing standard operating procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination education and experience.
- Minimum of five years of management experience with direct reports, preferably in a multi-site service environment.
- Minimum of five years working experience and knowledge of regulatory compliance, regulatory audits, and working with regulators.
- Working knowledge of operations activities.
- Strong working knowledge of industry regulations.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to present findings using Excel, PowerPoint, and Graphs.
- Ability to interpret a variety of technical matters with abstract and concrete variables.
- Strong communication skills to present information concisely to customers, employees, and peers, both written and verbal.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with executives, managers, employees, customers, and vendors.
- Direct supervisory experience with responsibilities including hiring and accountability for performance management.
Skills
- Operations activities knowledge
- Industry regulations knowledge
- Problem definition and data analysis
- Fact establishment and conclusion drawing
- Presentation skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Graphs)
- Technical matter interpretation (abstract and concrete variables)
- Strong communication (written and verbal)
- Relationship building (executives, managers, employees, customers, vendors)
- Direct supervisory experience
- Hiring
- Performance management
Location
- Remote office setting
- Up to 75% regional and overnight travel by car and/or plane
Experience Level
- Minimum of five years of management experience with direct reports, preferably in a multi-site service environment
- Minimum of five years working experience and knowledge of regulatory compliance, regulatory audits, and working with regulators
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination education and experience
About the Company
- Austin Powder has been making explosives for over 190 years, since 1833.
- Founded to produce black powder for breaking rock, mining minerals, and building canals and railroads.
- Initially located near Akron, Ohio.
- A world leader in the industrial explosives industry.
- Committed to safety, customer focus, a family culture work environment, and respect for all.
- Mission: improve the world through the safe and responsible use of explosives.
- Success based on core values.
- One of the leading providers of industrial explosives and blasting services globally.
Equal Opportunity
- Austin Powder is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
- Committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees.
- Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
- Austin Powder participates in E-Verify.
- Contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a).
- Regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
- Regulations prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing compensation.
- Regulations require covered prime contractors and subcontractors to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
