Area Engineer, Jacksonville, FL

Overview

Job Description - Area Engineer, Jacksonville, FL (2500029G)

Build Your Career. Build America’s Future. Vulcan Materials Company is the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. When you join Vulcan, it’s more than starting an exciting career – you get to make a difference for millions of people every day across the country. When you join Vulcan, you join a dynamic culture in which career development is encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is valued.

No matter the role or the location across the country, every member of the Vulcan team lives through the Vulcan Way: doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time.

About the Job

The Area Engineer will ensure safety, inspect plant systems, and support operations and engineering across multiple sites. The Area Engineer will coordinate, supervise, and direct the work of a team of project engineers, ensuring project goals are met on time and within budget. Responsibilities include capital planning, project management from design to implementation, structural design, and technical support for the SHE department.

Experience with aggregate processing equipment and systems is preferred. Travel up to 30% overnight is required.

• Inspect plant systems to ensure that they are safe for operating personnel.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of project engineers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Make regular visits to all sites within your assigned area.
• Ensure effective communication between the Operations and Engineering groups.
• Perform routine inspections of site facilities.
• Perform field support and troubleshooting of existing systems.
• Assist with capital planning, budgets, estimating, and cost estimation.
• Participate in plant process reviews and opportunity searches.
• Work with Operations Management to develop projects, including process modeling, equipment specification, general arrangement drawings, and estimates.
• Develop project design, planning, and coordination through implementation.
• Manage projects, complete structural designs and drawings, develop site plans, and perform other engineering tasks related to aggregate processing and remote distribution facilities.
• Experience with crushers, screens, conveyors, water systems, railroad layout, earthwork, stormwater, and utilities preferred.
• Support the SHE (Safety, Health, and Environmental) department with technical support/professional services.

• PE license is preferred.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Technical Expertise: Maintains cutting edge awareness of latest development in a specific field by scanning multiple sources of information or data (e.g. periodicals, networks of contacts).
• Project Management: Skills in project planning, execution, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Problem Solving: Identify, analyze, and resolve work-related issues efficiently and effectively using practical knowledge, experience, and hands-on skills. Finds practical solutions, implements fixes, and adapts to unexpected challenges.
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to break down complex problems, situations, in order to understand underlying patterns, identify key issues; examine information logically, question assumptions, and draw conclusions based on evidence.
• Safety Awareness: Ability to recognize, understand, and adhere to safety protocols and procedures in the workplace; proactive in identifying potential hazards, taking steps to mitigate risks, and ensuring that both personal and collective safety are maintained in all tasks and environments.
• Leadership
  
  Skills:
  
  Acts decisively and supports all aspects of the company to work together to accomplish objectives, vision, mission and values of Vulcan. Trusts and allows people to do their job, holding them accountable for the full extent of their responsibilities.

Education:

Experience:

• Must have at least 10 years of experience in a heavy industrial, civil/mechanical engineering, or mining environment.
• Preferred engineering experience with aggregate design and processing…