Senior Coordinator Belt

Site: Shoal Creek

About the role:

We are currently seeking a Senior Belt Coordinator to join our production team at our Shoal Creek Mine, located in Oakman, Alabama. Shoal Creek Mine is one of the deepest underground coal mines in the United States. Located on the Black Warrior River, this site produces one of the highest qualities of met coal in the United States. With nine-foot-tall workings, a brand-new longwall, and 15+ years of projected coal reserves, Shoal Creek mine is an ideal place to work.  

 

Located in between Jefferson, Walker, and Tuscaloosa counties in Alabama, this area offers beautiful rivers and lakes, landscapes, and rolling hills at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains. Oakman is about an hour from Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, both of which provide diverse, family-friendly communities with something for everyone, such as vibrant downtowns, safe, friendly neighborhoods, and excellent schools, including the University of Alabama and other area colleges.

 

Peabody’s Shoal Creek Mine has a safety-first culture and strives to have zero recordable MSHA injuries/incidents.

 

Responsibilities:

The Senior Belt Coordinator will be responsible for maintaining a 14-mile belt system and managing the efficient utilization of manpower and equipment resources.  In addition, this role is also responsible for ensuring business goals are met in a safe and effective manner while maintaining compliance with federal, state, local, and company requirements.

Duties will include:

• Work with each department to ensure planning is optimized and there is efficient use of all resources at the mine.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement (CI) strategies targeting safety, reliability, and cost savings.
• Timely escalation of belt issues that impact safety of people or production to the General Mine Coordinator and senior leadership.
• Ensure effective project management of major overhaul and repair equipment including planning, implementation, and budgeting.
• Organize unforeseen mine outages by ensuring downtime work is being managed and structured effectively to maximize the downtime.
• Life of Mine strategic planning, equipment lifecycle management, and project requirements.
• Ensure all major maintenance outages and projects have a clear scope of work, project schedule (Gantt chart), forecast costing, quality assurance procedures, and commissioning documentation.
• Manages belt personnel and performs effective belt audits to insure accurate and proper procedures and measures are being utilized to control, monitor, record, and report performance data for all belt, actual production, cost, and performance data for all mining and reclamation activities at the mine.

 

The Lifestyle:

This position may require the necessity to work weekends, holidays, or another shift as deemed necessary. We provide 401K matching, medical, dental and vision health plans with minimal cost to the employee. Benefit eligibility and PTO starts on your first day of work.

 

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10-12 years of underground coal mining belt system experie