Heavy aggregates and construction materials producer across 20 states
Vulcan Materials is the largest U.S. producer of crushed stone, sand, and gravel, operating facilities across 20 states plus Mexico and the Bahamas. The tech stack is operations-centric—AutoCAD, Tableau, ArcGIS, Oracle EBS, and AWS—reflecting a capital-intensive, geographically dispersed extraction and logistics business. Current hiring is heavily weighted toward operations and manufacturing roles, with an active ServiceNow adoption signaling a push to standardize incident and asset management across a complex multi-site footprint.
Notable leadership hires: Lead Person, Engineering Director
Vulcan Materials operates as the nation's leading aggregates supplier, producing crushed stone, sand, gravel, asphalt, and ready-mixed concrete across 20 U.S. states, D.C., Mexico, and the Bahamas. The company employs over 8,000 workers across aggregate facilities, serving construction and infrastructure markets. Operations span site planning, pit development, daily scheduling, and preventive maintenance programs, with compliance and safety as primary operational drivers. The business model requires tight coordination between extraction, transportation, and delivery to job sites, supported by geospatial tools (ArcGIS), enterprise resource planning (Oracle Fusion/EBS), and emerging ServiceNow-based workflows.
Core tools include AutoCAD, Tableau, ArcGIS (Pro and Enterprise), Oracle (EBS, Fusion, Integration Cloud), SQL, Python, PySpark, AWS, Azure, Terraform, and Red Hat/Oracle Linux. ServiceNow is actively being adopted.
Top priorities are ensuring safety compliance, reducing equipment downtime, improving plant utilization, minimizing maintenance costs, and eliminating idle time across distributed facilities.
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