Justine Sorensen

Assistant Plant Manager @Martin Marietta

Asst. Manager focused on managing all safety, operational, financial and environmental duties for the quarry while overseeing 30+ employees and maintaining all company programs, guidelines and policies. • Manage day-to-day operations of a 1.2 million ton/yr aggregate operation with a 5yr safety record including maintaining an accident and injury rate well below industry averages. • Optimized current blasting practices to achieve enhanced fragmentation, cost savings (20% decrease in $/ton), ground vibrations and safety. This also includes making a successful transition from using electric blasting caps to using non-electric blasting caps and increasing the average shot size by 420%. • Assisted in enhancing plant production to ~650tph by gaining better understanding of plant operations and implementing maintenance procedures to increase plant productivity. • Successfully report on production, mobile equipment and blasting in CORE, blasting for Vibratek and maintain KRONOS timekeeping while maintaining compliance with all environmental procedures. • Provide detailed reports on production, stockpile assessments, stripping information, expense reporting and forecasting utilizing company systems such as JDE, TM1, and M-Power.