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Construction Technician - Baker Minnesota
Company: Holcim Location: Baker, Minnesota
Posted On: 05/05/2025
Construction Technician at Holcim summary: As a Construction Technician at Holcim, you will collaborate with the operations team to ensure environmental and safety compliance while optimizing production efficiency for aggregate and concrete operations. Your responsibilities include data collection and validation, production scheduling, inventory management, and implementing safety protocols. With a focus on performance reporting and maintenance planning, you will contribute significantly to the operational excellence of our construction projects. COMPANY OVERVIEW Holcim is planning to spin-off its North American Business to unleash its full potential, capitalizing on North America's oversized growth in construction led by the modernization of infrastructure, a surge in advanced manufacturing and AI operation and the growth of resilient cities. Holcim plans to list the new company on the NYSE by the end of the first half of 2025 and establish its operations headquarters in the US to be fully dedicated to serving the North American market and pursue a growth strategy across the region. The newly listed company will become North America's leading building solutions company, with industry-leading market position to meet its customers' greatest ambitions with the most advanced building solutions from foundation to rooftop. Description: ABOUT THE ROLE As the Construction Technician you'll work closely with the operations team to ensure the highest levels of environmental and safety compliance while also leveraging production excellence to create superior products & services based on the highest productivity at the lowest cost of production. The Production Engineer oversees and coordinates all aspects of Aggregate and or Concrete site operations, ensuring an uninterrupted supply of product through monitoring production, shipping, cost, and quality. You'll participate in the development, leadership and management of the system based operational functions as well as other digital tools available, and performance for our region. The Construction Technician will be responsible for individual plant and production performance reporting, i.e. running equipment efficiency, uptime, downtime, capex and trend analysis. You'll be seen as an SAP Super User and Data Gatekeeper who will oversee and assist with the administrative workflow, material creation and management of inventory continuities. 50% Field / 50% Office WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH - Collects and compiles production data, creates process orders, validates data entries, and reviews sites. Verifies monthly production volumes.
- Works with area management to adjust production schedules as required. Confirms and creates new production orders as required
- Monitors and balances the book to physical inventory at each site at the product level. As a super-user, provides SAP PM support to site management.
- Maintains master data for recipes, materials, resources, equipment and functional location registry.
- Coordinate and assist Area Managers, Driver Supervisors, and the construction group in assuring FPE implementation / documentation and follow up.
- To include training, monitoring and follow up of other safety related functions. Will assist current Safety Management.
- Assist / perform product inventories for Ready-mix Concrete to improve and ensure improvement in workflow and help with month-end reporting.
- Be a resource to production teams for training, technical assistance, follow-up, trouble shooting and special projects.
- Assist the Area management in verifying production by product, maintaining accurate cost and controlling inventory. Validate and match physical inventories, calculate and analyze all productivity and material data. Control and update production diaries for the sites on a daily basis.
- Maintenance Planning duties such as coordinating plant and truck repairs, enhancing preventative maintenance to improve operating efficiencies, oversee special projects.
- Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to health, safety and environmental policies in all work environments and areas. Promote a culture of safety and exhibit these behaviors. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Education: Bachelor's degree or 3 years of equivalent experience. Field of Study Preferred: Engineering, Construction Management, Maintenance Planning, Project Management Required Computer and Software Skills: SAP, TIS, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) Additional Requirements: - Successful candidates must adhere to all safety protocols and proper use of Holcim approved
- Personal Protection Equipment ("PPE"), including but not limited to respirators. Subject to applicable law, employees that are required to wear respirators must be clean shaven where the respirator seal meets the face in order to pass the qualitative and quantitative fit tests. WHAT WE OFFER
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