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Show lENNECOTT NOTES i TITLE CHANGES i j Several organizational and title ! changes and the establishment of j a new department, were announced an-nounced last Friday by L. F. Pett, general manager of the Utah Copper Division of Kenne-ci.'tt Kenne-ci.'tt Copper Corporation. Mr. Pett said the changes ; wliieh involve reassignment of : present personnel were made to establish specific areas of authority auth-ority and improve organizational pe: formance. Changes in titles j were made to more correctly de-' de-' s-crube duties. AM changes will be effective March 1. j Newly eestablisihed is the Di-, Di-, vision department of quality control which will be headed by : a quality control engineer, yet ; to be named. The department i will assume charge of present ' assaying, sampling and lnspec-' lnspec-' tion work at the company's mine, I mills and refinery. Previously, these functions were responsible to the operating superintendents. The Division quality control engineer will be responsible to J. C. Landenberger, Jr., general superintendent of operotions, as are the superintendents of the mine, mills and refinery. Under the Division, quality control engineer en-gineer will be quality control engineers at the mine, rail Is and refinery. Included in the orgazational changes is the separation of the ore haulage department and the central power station operation from the mills. Under the new organization, the superintendent of ore haulage and the chief engineer en-gineer of the central power station sta-tion will come under the direct .supervision of the general superintendent sup-erintendent of operations. They will be on the same organizational organization-al level as the superintendents of the mine, mills, refinery and the Division quality control engineer. engi-neer. j At the mine, titles for R. F. j Gough and J. A. Norden, Jr., will be changed from assistant mdne 1 superintendent to operations superintendent sup-erintendent and maintenance superintendent, respectively, to more accurately define tlheir duties du-ties which will remain the same. Both will continue under the supervision of V. S. Barlow, superintendent sup-erintendent of mines. Also involved in the organizational organiza-tional changes at the rniine will be seveerall changes in duties and titles for supervisory personnel per-sonnel in the maintenance and operating departments. Dump leaching and precipitation plant operation will be set up as a separate department to be headed head-ed by a general leaching foreman. fore-man. At the mills, T. J. Hubbard ! and C. G. Quigley, superintend-j superintend-j ents of the Magna and Arthur 'Mills, respectively, will be re-! re-! sponsiblle exclusively for production. pro-duction. The former general : maintenance foreman, Lorenzo : Baldee, will assume the new title : of maintenance superintendent ! with all maintenance operations ' and the shops at both mills un-der un-der his supervision. The carpen-! carpen-! try shops at the two mills were j recently combined as a single department with a single fore-jman. fore-jman. This eliminated the main- tenance of two separate carpen-i carpen-i try ihcps. The mill superintend- ents and the n-ew maintenance superintendent will be under the direction of P. H. Ensign, superintendent super-intendent of mills. A recent change preceding ll it-current it-current realignment of duties was elimination of the title of general mill foreman and establishment estab-lishment of operations on a departmental de-partmental basis with foreman in full-time charge of such principal prin-cipal mill departments as crushing, crush-ing, grinding and flotation. At the refinery, Karl K. Koropp assistant supecrinlendent, will 'become operations superintendent superintend-ent and Roland F. Johnson, mas ter mechanic. w:ll become main-: main-: tenance superintendent. Both will report to H. A. Shaw, refinery re-finery superintendent. I Accompanying the realign -! ment of duties for these major ! operating officials is a change in duties for a number of other lopeerating supervisors at the mills and refinery. |