Organization Chart for a Quarry

What kind of orginization chart? Do you mean who owns it? Or the processes?

Dear jrpeck,

Thanks for your reply, what i mean is the organization of the quarry, the managment.

How about this:

The Slate Rock and Gravel Company (formerly The Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company)

President and General Manager: Mr. George N. Slate

Executive Vice-President: Cliff Vandercave

Executive Secretary: Sharon Stone

Quarry Foreman: Position currently open

Bronto Crane Operator: Fred Flintsone

General Quarry Workers:

- - Barney Rubble (formerly company Vice President)

- - Joe Rockhead

- - Hoagie

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Insurance Provider: Geico

"It's so simple, even a caveman can do it!"

Bonehead spelling error (typo) : Fred Flintstone!

Thanks, but i don't need a bla bla talking.

Geez! Lighten up Tarek! Where is your sense of humor? Did you never get to watch "The Flintstones" as a kid in your country? Fred worked in a quarry. He was a crane operator. I thought you might appreciate the humor.

Any organizational chart is going to be unique to that organization and the style of management and not necessarily generic for an industry.

A smaller company may have a totally different organization than a larger company doing the exact same work, as some positions may carry many different responsibilities (over fewer people).

Perhaps you should get a textbook on Organizational Management. There are usually many examples and possibly a Case Study of a real or fictional quarry. Fictional case studies are usually modeled on real businesses anyway.

Or a Mining Engineering handbook may have a section on management that could give you some examples.

I do have an MBA degree, so I know a little something about Organization and O-Charts.

Frankly, a Quarry is basically an Operations entity and as such should have an Operations or General Manager at the top. GM is is the usual title for any company that is self-contained with a full staff of specialists as well as workers and their supervisors. If the Quarry does nothing but operations, and the other business details are handle by its corporate parent, then the GM may be simply an Operations or Site Manager. This GM will have a small office staff, possibly a secretary and/or accountant/bookkeeper. He may or may not have one or more supervisors (foremen) reporting to him (see below).

He may also have an Engineer or other technical person, including possibly a Quality Manager and/or Safety Officer reporting to him, unless these functions are taken over by the higher up management if the Quarry is not a stand-alone company. This staff may or may not be supervised by an Office Manager. Some of the staff may have multiple roles, for example, the Engineer may also be the Safety Officer. If there is no larger company, a Sales or Marketing manager may be needed as well. There may also be a Compliance Officer, if there are governmental requirements, such as environmental or occupational safety legislation. Again, multiple roles may be involved. A Human Relations (HR) manager may be needed for hiring and union relations (if there is a union)

Reporting to the GM, and not considered office staff, would be the Supervisor(s) or Foremen. There may be a General Supervisor (GS) with Shift Supervisors (if there is more than one shift). The employees may be divided up by trade or physical location within the quarry and report to a Supervisor who is under the GS or SS, or who report directly to the GM.

So you see there are many choices. I would contact colleagues at other Quarry companies and see if you can get a copy of their Organizational Chart. This is known as benchmarking, reviewing practices and documents of other companies (not necessarily, but possibly even competitors) in your industry to help you manage your own.

To draw the chart, use a box at the top of the page large enough for the name of the person and job title. It does not really matter which you put first, although you may have some jobs that currently have no one filling them, which you either leave the name blank or say "Open".

From the bottom of the box a short vertical line attaches it to a long horizontal line. Dropping down from the horizontal line are short vertical lines that attach to boxes representing those manager who report to the manager above them. Direct reporting employees who have not other employees reporting to them may be considered staff and either attach their box via a short horizontal line attached to the short vertical line under their manager, or bring down a longer vertical line from the longer horizontal line and attach as many individual staff boxes as you wish via a short horizontal line.

I have created many O-Charts this way on AutoCAD, but you could also do it with many simple graphics programs. Some special Office Graphics programs may even have O-Chart templates already set up making it easy to construct new charts. You may want to sketch it out on paper first, or even draw it on paper with a pencil and straight edge or drawing template.

Good Luck! Blah-blah!

Good reply STL -- I liked the Flintstone Org - put it in some little boxes with connecting lines and it would make a great graphic.

If Someone can't see the humor in your post how could they possibly invision something as simple as organizational structure. It's not rocket science.

Hi,

Till now, no one gave me a proffessional organization chart,

There must be a chart can show the exact positions that a quarry must have, like the quarry manager, the crushing plant manager, the production and quality manager, the saftey and environmental manager, the maintenance,.....etc,....

Any one had worked or done a quarry business must know this.

So, If any one have like this chart, i will be very appreciate if he can provide me with it.

Thanks

I sent you a sample in my last post, click on it and it will enlarge so you can review it.

I doubt if anyone is going to send you an org chart for your corporate structure, as no one really knows how your quarry is set up. It really is a chart that shows who is responsible (accountable) to whom.

Who does what to whom or what ever.

You will probably have to do your own work and make your own chart possibly based on the information given to you by STLeng and the sample I provided. Not too hard.

Do you work in a quarry or is this a homework assignment? I suspect the latter is the case. If you work in a quarry you should know these people and their relative positions.

Thanks, But what realy I'm asking for, is the proffessional opinion, I had seen your chart, and thanks for your help.

As I have mentioned before, there must be a unique quarry chart that mention all the required positions to establish a chart organization. If you have seen what i write before and if you have any idea about quarry business you will understand what i need.

Again thanks for your help

Sorry no quarry experience but the infrastructure of all corporations is pretty much the same until you get down to the skills that actually do the work.

Use the info supplied by STL and the sample -- insert your own words in the text boxes -- based on your own knowledge of the folks at the quarry where you work, put ther names in the appropriate boxes.

I.E.

General manager

All who work for him/her

Production manager

All who work for him/her

Legal

All who work for him/her

Planning

All who work for him/her

Use the boxes and lines to show the elevation of the relationships.

Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc. then you have your org chart -- Please change the name of the sample chart to the name of your quarry. I.E. Tarek Anoun's Quarry, Organizational Chart.

Give it up , ietech. I think you may have hit it right in your earlier post. He is probably a student and this was an assignment, which he doesn't want to think through for himself, but have others provide the answer, and do the work for him.

My guess is that he has a case study, how he knows some of the job titles, but he doesn't understand the stated and implied relationships in the case study enough, to put it into the proper chart form. He may also have been asleep the day they discussed organizational charts!

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. And if you stand around long enough trying to make him do so, he will probably end up peeing on you or dropping a load at, or on, your feet.

Yeah, you're right. I decided to give it up after my last post.

He is obviously a student or a guy who doesn't even know the people he works for/with. Org Charts are pretty basic simple stuff. I wonder how he will make it through the tough questions.

I would like to get an organization chart for a Quarry including crushing plant.

Then talk to someone at a <...Quarry including crushing plant...> instead of pestering people on CR4. Sheesh!