Fleet Operations Foreman

Summary:

Provide effective planning and leadership to ensure efficient and productive operations within the Fleet Operations group. Lead teams within Fleet Operations and proactively coordinate with all ASC departments as needed to facilitate and complete all program, sustaining and project needs of the United States Antarctic Program. This is a working/operating foreman position with support and operating responsibilities in addition to leadership responsibilities.

Position Responsibilities:

• Implements and maintains a safe workplace program and ensures that safety is the highest priority.

• Reads and understands the manufacturer’s operating manual for each piece of equipment before operating as well as ensuring all team members do the same
• Is responsible for the safe and technically proficient oversight and operation of light vehicles such as pickups, heavy equipment such as bulldozers, articulating loaders, excavators, graders, backhoes, fork-lifts, trenchers, snow blasters, traverse equipment, tracked agricultural tractors, cranes, pistonBully, Mattracks, dump-trucks, snow/dirt moving and grooming equipment, and more

• Operates heavy equipment as required, including but not limited to the following activities in both dirt and snow: Road grading, ditch cleaning, trench excavation, movement, stockpiling, loading of aggregate/snow, snow plowing, snow removal, loading/unloading of trucks/trailers, material handling, disabled vehicle recovery, road construction and maintenance, airfield construction and maintenance, loading/unloading of shipping containers.

• Effectively lead teams to achieve departmental goals on a daily, weekly, seasonal, and long-term basis. Teams will include equipment operators, heavy equipment operators, HEO leads, Crane operators and others.
• Ensure safe and efficient use of all department equipment assets and resources
• Work with the Fleet Operations Supervisor(s) and other Fleet Operations Foremen to establish daily, weekly, and seasonal schedules and goals that consider over-all priorities, current equipment availability, and current staffing levels and abilities. Modify and adjust these schedules as needed to stay current and accurate.
• Ensure all team members are performing daily equipment checks. Makes sure all safety and maintenance issues are reported to the Supervisor daily via proper reporting methods and channels.
• Conduct equipment familiarization with team members to gauge proficiency levels prior to any equipment operation.
• Provide daily written reports summarizing work completed, issues encountered, lessons learned and equipment status. Complete effective pass downs of information from shift to shift. Keep Management informed of current tasking status.
• Complete daily work requests and assignments in a safe and timely manner. 
• Attend meetings as needed to gain knowledge from and ensure coordination with all other departments in support of ASC operations.
• Ensure all team members properly complete timecard and Maximo (work-order, timesheet, project and equipment hours, etc) on a daily basis.
• Completes pre-season and end-of-season team member performance evaluations in accordance with established HR procedures.
• Ensures team members report equipment hours within 25 hours of PM due
• Handles confidential matters (personnel actions, management reports, etc.) in accordance with management policy.
• Trains subordinate employees on performance, documentation and activities that affect the achievement Operations Division metrics.
• Maintains self-control and represents ASC-Amentum to the highest standards during on and off hours and sets a positive example for others to follow. 
• Ensures all spills are properly reported and mitigated per existing SOP’s.
• Reports and documents incidents in a timely manner.
• Performs general duties as required in support of ASC goals and contractual commitments.
• Complies with and ensures all team members understand and comply with ASC Environmental Health & Safety and Quality Assurance requirements and goals and provides documentation to these divisions as necessary. 
• Performs other duties as required.

Required Education, Experience, Certificates and Licenses:

• High School diploma or GED
• Five years of experience as a heavy equipment operator (such as those outlined above).
• At least six months of prior supervisory/leadership experience

Expected Skills and Competencies:

• Team player and group dynamics are of the utmost importance.  

Preferred: 

• Class A CDL Driver’s License
• Rigging certifications
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office
• Prior cold-climate equipment operations experience
• Ability to thrive in an equipment and resource limited environment
• Ability to work in an environment with regular Re-Directs and Change Orders in a calm, collected and respectful manner.  With McMurdo Station under a complete rebuild new tasking, weather and priorities are the norm rather than the exception.
• General knowledge and understanding of project schedules, planning, and management
• Basic hydraulic and mechanical understanding
• A clear understanding of grade and drainage

Physical and/or Other Requirements:

• Willingness and ability to deploy to Antarctica for extended periods
• Successful completion of Medical and Dental examinations required by the NSF for deployment to Antarctica
• Successful completion of drug screening and background check required by employer
• Successful completion of Federal Background Check required by the NSF
• Must be willing and able to lift and move items, parts, assemblies, and equipment up to the safety regulation maximum as required by the position.
• Must be willing and able to perform physical activities including heavy lifting, climbing in and out of equipment, crawling, snow shoveling, ice-chipping, walking long distances daily and working outdoors in extreme cold as required by the position.
• Must participate in community programs, such as “house-mouse” (chores), “daisy-picking” (cleaning-up around the station), recycling efforts & safety objectives.
• Valid Driver’s License issued in the United States
• Must be able to obtain and maintain facility credentials/authorization. Note: US Citizenship is required for facility credentials/authorization at this work location.

Boots Required:   Yes