Operations Supervisor; Winnemucca, Nevada

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About the role - Operations Supervisor (Winnemucca, Nevada)

We are excited to announce an opportunity at Orica for an Operations Supervisor within our Specialty Mining Chemicals team.

The Operations Supervisor will lead and drive all operational activities to ensure sustainable improvement of critical business processes, systems, and technology to improve overall operational goals. Working directly and indirectly with all levels of Orica employees and external stakeholders, the role will focus primarily on the overall management and tracking of all operational functions for both solutions and solids. Emphasis is placed on safety and health, protection of the environment and economics, converting raw materials into liquid sodium cyanide and solid cyanide, and ensuring timely shipments to the customers.

What you will be doing

• Develop people and ensure that all team members are properly trained. Set up coaching/performance improvement plans and identify/implement development opportunities. Checking and reporting that all employees are properly trained.
• Supervise, train, and develop subordinate staff in following standard operating procedures.
• Advise senior management of issues and/or risks to operations or supply for effective risk management.
• Supervise all day-to-day duties and activities of the specific team/process/substream.
• Act as back-up for the Business Process Excellence Lead for follow-up meetings and reporting with GBS and Orica Management.
• Manage specific team, ensure alignment, reporting, and communication, including appropriate workload allocation, implementation of appropriate backup systems, monitoring of volume and productivity.

Strategic Governance

• Lead, drive, track, and manage the business operational duties, strategy, and framework for the site, and proactively drive the philosophy.

Process Design and Standardization

• Lead, drive, track, and manage the overall process and SOP tasks across all operational activities.

Process Management and Improvement

• Proactively work with Process Owners, Workstream Leads, Supervisors, and other subject matter experts to analyze and measure the effectiveness and efficiency of existing business processes.

Project Management

• Lead, drive, track, and manage the timely execution and delivery of all operational duties.
• Provide guidance to the operational task owners of the individual operational tasks to ensure each project meets the planned deliverables.
• Handle overall reporting of shift results.

Data Analytics

• Provide the Leadership Team with the information/analysis/recommendations/suggestions needed to make decisions about strategies and tasks related to operational efficiency and performance improvement.

Change Management

• Work with Workstream Leads, Supervisors, and other Orica Employees to deal with minor to complex scale organizational changes in their work streams, analyze changes, and determine their impact on business processes.
• Analyze overall operational tasks and workstream-specific action plans to introduce major or minor organizational changes with a minimum amount of disruption.
• Lead, drive, track,…