Quarry Manager

Manufacturing & Engineering, Construction & Civils

Site leadership role for quarry operations specialist with experience in aggregates, sand, gravel, hard rock, hard stone, and asphalt sectors.

Salary: Very Competitive, Car, Bonus, Benefits including relocation assistance

Location: Gloucestershire

Commutable counties: Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Avonmouth, Herefordshire, Forest of Dean, Wye Valley

Our client: A major group specializing in the bulk construction materials sector. It is an iconic brand with an excellent and highly successful track record and is regarded as a market leader.

The Role:

As Quarry/Unit Manager, you will focus on leading, directing, and effectively managing the quarry operational team to ensure the delivery of exceptional safety, environmental, cost, quality, service, financial, and operational targets. The emphasis will be on continuous improvement of operational efficiencies and performance.

• Operate to the highest level of health and safety in line with our client's Health and Safety Plan, while planning continuous improvement in this area.
• Operate to the highest level of environmental objectives in line with our client's environmental management plan, while planning continuous improvement in this area.
• Ensure all statutory legislation and company regulations are adhered to with respect to all operational activities.
• Achieve optimum production levels in line with commercial activity at the lowest operation cost. Continually advance operational improvements to enhance efficiency.
• Liaise with customers regarding delivery and quality issues, ensuring excellent customer service.
• Work with the logistics function to ensure that operational procedures support the achievement of excellent customer service levels at the most efficient operational cost.
• Collaborate with the technical function to ensure that operational procedures support the achievement of excellent quality levels at the most efficient operational cost.
• Ensure that the quarry operational team is adequately resourced, trained, and developed.
• Work closely with the maintenance team to ensure that assets are maintained to deliver the business plan, coordinating maintenance activities during normal operations and shutdowns.
• Ensure personnel are effectively developed and become highly competent.
• Implement operational control mechanisms covering all relevant aspects (including Health & Safety, environmental controls, capex management control, revenue spend controls).

The Ideal Candidate:

• HNC/HND/Degree qualified or equivalent in an Engineering, Mining, or Science discipline or equivalent Quarry Management qualifications such as SHE NVQ level 4/QCF level 6.
• Diploma in Quarry Technology/FdSc Minerals Extractives Technology desirable.
• Strong operational quarry/unit management background, ideally gained within a cement, aggregates, sand, gravel, stone, concrete, asphalt, hard rock, or other building products.
• Experience in quarrying, stripping and restoration, drill and blast operations, and geotechnical assessment.
• Experience in loading and transportation of extracted materials, feeding, crushing, screening, washing, separation, classification, and beneficiation techniques.
• Experience in quarry management at a site producing 500,000 tonnes plus per annum.
• Excellent understanding of working within a process plant or a highly regulated Health, Safety, and Environmental centric site will also be considered.
• Excellent quarry operational planning skills.
• Experience managing both permanent and contract employees.
• Ideally hold a SHE NVQ Level 4/QCF level 6 as a minimum, DAPS or equivalent; quarry operations related qualifications plus NEBOSH and IOSH.
• Demonstrate inspirational leadership and the ability to develop a team in achieving best-in-class standards.
• Effective verbal and written communicator at all levels of an organization and externally with customers and suppliers.

To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference LX to Telephone or visit .