Role DefinitionQuarries Operations

Manager

Company Background

FCC Environment (FCC Environment is the trading name for FCC Environment (UK) Limited and FCC Environment Services (UK) Limited) is a leading UK waste and resource management company, which is part of a global group with a strong heritage in providing services for communities and businesses. Our vision is to be the environmental company of choice, delivering change for a sustainable future.

FCC Environment’s core business centers on collection, resource recovery and renewable energy providing services for local authorities and commercial customers. To make our skills and expertise easily accessible to our customers, our business is grouped into five core services:

Municipal services – household waste collection, street cleansing, parks and gardens maintenance.

Business waste solutions –waste collection and recycling services for small and large companies.

Recycling – material recycling facilities, household waste recycling centers.

Green energy –recovery of energy from waste.

Waste Processing –industrial waste treatment, hazardous wastes and landfill disposal.

We operate over 200 facilities in England, Scotland and Wales and employ around 2,500 employees. We recycle 1.2 million tonnes of waste each year.

FCC Environment is part of the FCC Group which is a leading international infrastructure, environmental services and green energy company present in more than 50 countries with 90,000 employees.

You will be working for our subsidiary company Darrington Quarries Ltd, which is a long established quarrying company operating in Yorkshire. Darrington Quarries has six limestone quarries and one sand quarry they are all situated close to the A1 from Doncaster in the south to Tadcaster in the north.

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Role Purpose

To manage the operations of the Quarries business.

Key Responsibilities

To work closely with the Quarry Managers to ensure the quarries operations run efficiently and safely.

Liaise with General Manager and the Health and Safety Representative on Health and Safety issues at the workplace.

Ensure management control and supervision of all activities on sites. Work in accordance with Environmental Management System and

promote environmentally considerate work practices. Develop and promote good communications and professional

relationships between all levels of staff and employees on site. Ensure training plans are continually updated to ensure that the

workforce is competent. Plan, organise the appropriate resources in a safe and cost effective

manner. Checking that the quarries production levels are maintained safely to

schedule. Balancing sales and output by liaising with sales and commercial

teams. Liaise with engineering staff to ensure repairs/breakdown/preventative

servicing is undertaken. Altering the quarries production systems in accordance with the

materials required. Experience with excel, word, outlook. Providing the General Manager with information and statistics on each

quarry's performance. Maintaining up-to-date records and dealing with a range of paperwork. Ensuring that key Health and Safety legislation (Quarries Regulations

1999), implemented throughout the sites. Keeping up to date with relevant legislation and industry developments. Maintain the inspection systems and checklists in accordance with the

IMS system. Closely monitoring all areas of the quarrying operations to ensure that

extraction and processing work is carried out to the highest standard. Undertaking regular site inspections and risk assessments in order to

comply with all health and safety regulations and our IMS system.

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Examining the materials produced to ensure that a high quality of product is maintained.

Qualifications and Experience (preferred)

Experience in quarrying (Previous Quarry Manager role essential) The applicant must hold as a minimum QCF6 / NVQ 4 Be a member of the Institute of Quarrying. Technical knowledge/experience on mobile equipment, washing and

dry screening processing plants Knowledge of Shotfiring and Blast design Experience in inert waste recycling operations

Personal Qualities

Strong leadership skills involving a multi-disciplined team.

Commitment and determination to meet personal objectives. Strong drive and resilience.

Proven ability to select and build strong teams. Strong leadership qualities, skilled in delivering measurable results through others.

A highly credible leader, with strong people skills capable of developing and motivating widespread teams.

Good people development skills and leadership qualities; able to coach and inspire staff to broaden their outlook and raise their expectations.

Ability to work collaboratively at all levels in a capacity of adding value to the decision making process.

Ability to re-evaluate priorities, responding quickly and positively to change is imperative.

Proven success of influencing at the highest level both internally and externally.

Performance driven with the ability to deliver added value and assist in the improvement of operational performance.

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Sufficiently resilient and robust to effectively manage third parties.

Other Information

Location – Darrington Quarry (Head Office), Darrington Leys, Cridling Stubbs, Knottingley, WF11 0AH.

Direct reports – General Manager

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