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Aggregate Crushing Foreman

These Core Values should align with your Personal Values: 

Be Humble
Build and Maintain Relationships
Choose to be Positive and Resilient
Always, Learn, Do, and Improve
Own Safety
Commit to Quality
Focus on the Customer
Act as One BARD

 

Job Summary:

The Aggregate Crushing Foreman is responsible for supervising and coordinating the daily activities of the crushing crew to ensure efficient production of quality aggregates. This position reports directly to the Aggregate Production Manager and plays a key role in maintaining safety, productivity, quality and equipment reliability.

Job Description:

Who we are:

BARD Materials is a family-owned Ready Mix and Aggregate Supplier who transforms materials responsibly to build better lives, communities, and country. At BARD, our integrity is determined by how well we live our core values. We have an exciting opportunity for the right individual to join our team as an Aggregate Crushing Foreman

What we are looking for:

We are seeking a dedicated, safety-focused leader to oversee aggregate crushing operations. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in aggregate production, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to quality and continuous improvement.

The Job (overview):

The Aggregate Crushing Foreman is responsible for supervising and coordinating the daily activities of the crushing crew to ensure efficient production of quality aggregates. This position reports directly to the Aggregate Production Manager and plays a key role in maintaining safety, productivity, quality and equipment reliability.

Responsibilities:

  • Supervise and direct the crushing crew in daily operations, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
  • Monitor aggregate production to meet company specifications and customer requirements.
  • Inspect, operate, and maintain crushing equipment, troubleshooting issues as needed.
  • Schedule and coordinate maintenance and repairs with the Aggregate Production Manager.
  • Train crew members on safe work practices and proper equipment operation.
  • Track production metrics and report progress to management.
  • Ensure compliance with environmental regulations and company policies.
  • Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices.
  • Communicate effectively with immediate supervisor, other departments, including Ready Mix and Quality Control teams.

Education:

  • High school diploma or equivalent required.
  • Technical training or certifications in aggregate production, heavy equipment operation, or related fields preferred.

Who You are:

  • Proven experience in aggregate crushing or related operations.
  • Strong leadership and team-building skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
  • Commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
  • Effective communicator with a positive, resilient attitude.

These Core Values should align with your Personal Values:

  • Be Humble
  • Build and Maintain Relationships
  • Choose to be Positive and Resilient
  • Always, Learn, Do, and Improve
  • Own Safety
  • Commit to Quality
  • Focus on the Customer
  • Act as One BARD

Physical and Work Environment Requirements:

  • Work is primarily performed outdoors in an active mining and production environment, exposed to weather conditions including heat, cold, rain, and dust.
  • Frequent standing, walking, climbing stairs and ladders, bending, stooping, and reaching.
  • Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds on a regular basis.
  • Ability to work around moving machinery and heavy equipment safely.
  • Must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE), including hard hat, safety glasses, high-visibility clothing, hearing protection, gloves, and steel-toe boots.
  • Ability to work varying shifts, weekends, and overtime as business demands.
  • Must remain alert and able to respond quickly to safety hazards and operational changes.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Competitive Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package including Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, Short Term Disability Insurance, Flex Spending Plan, Health Reimbursement Accounts, 401K, Profit Sharing, Wellness, Vacation, Holidays, Sick Pay, and an Employee Assistance Program.

BARD Materials provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

Aggregate Production Utility Operator

Job Summary:

BARD Materials is looking for a skilled, dependable equipment operator to join our Aggregate Production team. In this hands-on role, you’ll operate heavy equipment — including loaders, dump trucks, and excavators — to keep our production sites running efficiently and safely. If you take ownership of your work, collaborate well under pressure, and hold yourself to a high quality standards, we want to hear from you.

 

Job Description:

Exemplifies the BARD Core Values:

  • Be Humble
  • Build and Maintain Relationships
  • Choose to be Positive and Resilient
  • Always Learn, Do, and Improve
  • Own Safety
  • Commit to Quality
  • Focus of the Customer
  • Act as ONE BARD!

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Serve as a BARD brand ambassador.
  • Maintain constant and consistent professionalism with internal and external audiences/customers.
  • The ability to speak clearly and operate two-way radios according to Federal Communication Commission regulations and company policy.
  •  Willing to work Monday through Saturday as weather and business conditions warrant.
  • Capable and willing to perform a wide range of assigned duties to match business needs and demands of the Aggregate Production team.
  • Effectively work with colleagues on assigned tasks, resolving issues related to plant operation, and items encountered at the production site.
  • Staying abreast of upcoming needs.
  • Keep current on training and new practices and expectations.
  • Transportation of equipment parts as needed to applicable locations.
  • Operation of a loader to maintain and/or move aggregate stockpiles in addition to the Loading of vehicles, as applicable.
  • Operation of a long-reach excavator to execute the needed task.
  • All other duties as assigned.

 

BARD Materials provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

Seasonal Screen Printer

Onsite Job.

· Receives production order and job assignments and reads order to verify quantity to be run, overrun tolerance, color sequence, and substrate

· Obtains substrate, screen, ink, squeegee, and related supplies needed to produce job

· Sets up press according to established company guidelines, safety, and job requirements

· Adjusts drying rack or sets dryer for proper drying or curing

· Prints job maintaining optimum production speed and makes press adjustments to maintain print quality, registration, and color

· Solves printing problems

· Ensures proper cleanliness of press, work station, and immediate press area

Performs other related duties as required and assigned

Seasonal Embroidery Technician

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (ESSENTIAL DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARENΓÇÖT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING):

  • Reads invoices/work orders to determine type and location of embroidery
  • Selects needle, thread, and thread color and threads it through machine guides and bobbin and adjusts and regulates machine settings
  • Attaches hoops to the garments and places them on the correct embroidery machine and removes them when embroidery is complete
  • Manages the quality control of production by ensuring that all apparel is quality checked and products are verified before packing
  • Repairs defective embroidery or fills in blanks left by embroidery machine
  • Cleans, trims, and folds garments
  • Bags or packages orders and contacts customers upon completion
  • Maintains cleanliness of work area and equipment
  • Decorate designs on clothing and hats

 

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Part-Time

Sunnycrest Manor is accepting applications for CNA who performs intermediate human support service and paraprofessional work to the residents of Sunnycrest Manor.

This is a part-time position working 2nd shift, 2 pm – 10:30 pm with a $3 shift differential.

Work is performed under the general supervision of a charge nurse or professional staff.

Examples of Duties

  • Performs personal care of patients and provides routine services including making beds, giving baths and rubs, lifting and moving residents, and caring for personal effects.
  • Teaches or reinforces adult learning skills including bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming, and personal hygiene.
  • Assists patients with daily activities including dressing, bathing, grooming, toileting and personal hygiene.
  • Performs rehabilitative therapy and activities of daily living.
  • Takes and records vital signs.
  • Assists patients with movement to dining, exercise, and recreation areas.
  • Makes rounds on regular basis; checks patients, changes bed linens, washes patients, empties bed pans, cleans urinals, commodes and other facilities and equipment.
  • Notifies nurses of the need for attention, medication or treatment.
  • Applies devices such as simple dressings, supports, braces, appliances and restraints.
  • Measures and records food and fluid intake.
  • Teaches behavioral skills and protects patients from harm and self-abuse.
  • Monitors and records behaviors related to medical and physical restraints.
  • Follows required protocols for safety and infection control.
  • Performs related tasks as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Possess Certified Nursing Assistant certification.

Must pass the prescribed pre-employment physical, abuse registry review, and criminal background check.

Special Qualifications:
All employees will be subject to the Sunnycrest Manor Mandatory Vaccination Policy immediately upon hire.

Supplemental Information

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
General knowledge of:
Common physical illness and their symptoms.

Basic knowledge of:
Human anatomy as related to treatments and therapies.

Ability to:
Follow oral and written directions of a technical nature.
Deal with patients empathetically and respectfully.
Prepare, maintain, and understanding nursing records and reports.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with residents, families, other employees, officials and the general public.

Physical, Mental, and Environmental Requirements:
Vision abilities required by this job including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Effective verbal speaking and hearing abilities are needed to handle communications with staff, residents, and others.
Requires pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 25 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally with assistance.
Requires standing most of the time to perform work responsibilities with regular walking between locations.
Requires ability to walk steps, reaching, squatting, stooping, bending, and sitting, pushing, pulling, twisting, gripping and apply physical intervention holds.
Some exposure to slippery surfaces when floors are wet.
Exposure to chemicals from cleaning compounds and exposure to bodily fluids require the use of personal protective equipment to safe guard against potential biological and chemical hazards.
Work is primarily indoors.

 

EEOC / AA

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Sunnycrest Manor is accepting applications for CNA who performs intermediate human support service and paraprofessional work to the residents of Sunnycrest Manor.

This is a full-time position working 2nd shift, 2 pm – 10:30 pm with a $3 shift differential.

Work is performed under the general supervision of a charge nurse or professional staff.

Examples of Duties

  • Performs personal care of patients and provides routine services including making beds, giving baths and rubs, lifting and moving residents, and caring for personal effects.
  • Teaches or reinforces adult learning skills including bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming, and personal hygiene.
  • Assists patients with daily activities including dressing, bathing, grooming, toileting and personal hygiene.
  • Performs rehabilitative therapy and activities of daily living.
  • Takes and records vital signs.
  • Assists patients with movement to dining, exercise, and recreation areas.
  • Makes rounds on regular basis; checks patients, changes bed linens, washes patients, empties bed pans, cleans urinals, commodes and other facilities and equipment.
  • Notifies nurses of the need for attention, medication or treatment.
  • Applies devices such as simple dressings, supports, braces, appliances and restraints.
  • Measures and records food and fluid intake.
  • Teaches behavioral skills and protects patients from harm and self-abuse.
  • Monitors and records behaviors related to medical and physical restraints.
  • Follows required protocols for safety and infection control.
  • Performs related tasks as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Possess Certified Nursing Assistant certification.

Must pass the prescribed pre-employment physical, abuse registry review, and criminal background check.

Special Qualifications:
All employees will be subject to the Sunnycrest Manor Mandatory Vaccination Policy immediately upon hire.

Supplemental Information

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
General knowledge of:
Common physical illness and their symptoms.

Basic knowledge of:
Human anatomy as related to treatments and therapies.

Ability to:
Follow oral and written directions of a technical nature.
Deal with patients empathetically and respectfully.
Prepare, maintain, and understanding nursing records and reports.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with residents, families, other employees, officials and the general public.

Physical, Mental, and Environmental Requirements:
Vision abilities required by this job including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Effective verbal speaking and hearing abilities are needed to handle communications with staff, residents, and others.
Requires pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 25 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally with assistance.
Requires standing most of the time to perform work responsibilities with regular walking between locations.
Requires ability to walk steps, reaching, squatting, stooping, bending, and sitting, pushing, pulling, twisting, gripping and apply physical intervention holds.
Some exposure to slippery surfaces when floors are wet.
Exposure to chemicals from cleaning compounds and exposure to bodily fluids require the use of personal protective equipment to safe guard against potential biological and chemical hazards.
Work is primarily indoors.

 

EEOC / AA

Environmental Service Worker

Performs responsible work in cleaning linens and other cloth products, housekeeping and light manual work in the care and cleaning of patient rooms, halls, work areas, office and other facilities.

Work is performed under the regular supervision of the Environmental Services Director.

Examples of Duties

  • Cleans, mops, and sanitizes resident rooms, toilets, and baths.
  • Cleans windows, windowsills, window treatments, walls, and furniture.
  • Performs special cleaning of rooms, disinfects walls, floors and furnishings.
  • Cleans nursing stations, halls, lobbies, treatment rooms, recreation areas, lounges, and dining areas.
  • Stocks cleaning and linen carts.
  • Empties and cleans waste and trash containers.
  • Washes, dries, counts, folds, and stores clean linens and clothes.
  • Delivers clean linens and clothes to various departments and floors, and ensures the proper amount of linens are delivered by established times.
  • May operate mending, sewing, and marking equipment.
  • Follows prescribed protocols for maintaining privacy and confidentiality of protected health information in accordance with HIPAA standards and County Policies.
  • Follows prescribed protocols for safety and infection control.
  • Acts as Mandatory Reporter as defined in the Code of Iowa.
  • Performs related tasks as required.

 

Minimum Qualifications

High school diploma or GED or experience in building cleaning or laundry operations.

Must pass the prescribed pre-employment physical, abuse registry review, and criminal background check.

Special Qualifications:
All employees will be subject to the Sunnycrest Manor Mandatory Vaccination Policy immediately upon hire.

Supplemental Information

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
General knowledge of:
Building cleaning supplies and equipment.

Ability to:
Understand and follow oral and written directions.

Physical, Mental, and Environmental Requirements:
Vision abilities required by this job including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Effective verbal speaking and hearing abilities are needed to handle communications with staff, residents, and others.
Requires pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 25 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally with assistance.
Requires standing most of the time to perform work responsibilities with regular walking between locations.
Requires ability to walk steps, reaching, squatting, stooping, bending, and sitting, pushing, pulling, twisting, gripping and apply physical intervention holds.
Some exposure to slippery surfaces when floors are wet.
Exposure to chemicals from cleaning compounds and exposure to bodily fluids require the use of personal protective equipment to safe guard against potential biological and chemical hazards.
Work is primarily indoors.
Occasional exposure to outside weather conditions and some outdoor work.

 

Dubuque County and Sunnycrest Manor are an EEOC and AA employer

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Sunnycrest Manor is accepting applications for LPNs who performs nursing care to the residents of Sunnycrest Manor in accordance with the Iowa Nurse Practice Act.

Work is performed under the regular supervision of the Nursing Department Management Staff.

Supervision is exercised over certified nursing assistants, restorative nursing assistants, nursing assistant transporters, ward clerks, certified medication aides, and program instructors.

Examples of Duties

  • Reviews prior shift records, reviews treatment and medication instructions.
  • Assigns and supervises the work of nursing assistants and others on an assigned shift involving the plan of care of residents; instructs subordinates on procedures and techniques for the routine care of residents.
  • Personally administers medications; giving injections, catherizations, inserts nasogastric tubes; changes dressings, checks blood pressure; and provides other nursing services as indicated.
  • Documents condition, development, and treatment in patient records.
  • Observes and evaluates patients’ condition and initiates action.
  • Accompanies physicians on rounds and gives information as requested.
  • Briefs relieving or supervisory staff on nursing shift developments.
  • Assists Registered Nurse in utilizing the nursing process which involves assessment, nursing diagnosis, the establishment, implementation, and evaluation of the plan of care.
  • Administers, records use, monitors effects and side-effects of medications.
  • Consuls with patients’ families.
  • Follows proscribed protocols for safety and infection control.
  • Monitors nutritional status and dining process of residents.
  • Assists Registered Nurse in the development of Minimum Data Set (MDS) Assessment and the formal care planning process.
  • Performs related tasks as required.

 

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from a school of nursing approved by the Iowa Board of Nursing and is licensed practical nurse as issued by the State of Iowa.

Must pass the prescribed pre-employment physical, abuse registry review, and criminal background check.

Special Qualifications:
All employees will be subject to the Sunnycrest Manor Mandatory Vaccination Policy immediately upon hire.

Supplemental Information

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Thorough knowledge of:
The minimum standards of nursing practice for the licensed practical nurse in the State of Iowa.
Precautions to be taken in the use of medications.
Treatment, diagnostic, immunization and related medical services for the type of patients in an area of assignment.
Rules, regulations, procedures, and policies pertaining to nursing services of the assigned institution.

Ability to:
Observe medical problems and initiate appropriate action.
Assign and supervise the work of a staff of nonprofessional personnel and to instruct them in practices and techniques.
Accurately maintain patient medical records and prepare reports.
Establish and maintain effective relationships with patients, physicians, subordinates and others contacted in the course of work.
Work with aggressive patients.

Physical, Mental, and Environmental Requirements:
Vision abilities required by this job including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Effective verbal speaking and hearing abilities are needed to handle communications with staff, residents, and others.
Requires pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 25 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally with assistance.
Requires standing most of the time to perform work responsibilities with regular walking between locations.
Requires ability to walk steps, reaching, squatting, stooping, bending, and sitting, pushing, pulling, twisting, gripping and apply physical intervention holds.
Some exposure to slippery surfaces when floors are wet.
Exposure to chemicals from cleaning compounds and exposure to bodily fluids require the use of personal protective equipment to safe guard against potential biological and chemical hazards.
Work is primarily indoors.

 

Dubuque County and Sunnycrest Manor are an EEOC and AA employer