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Barge Load Out Operator

Enviva
Epes, Alabama
Full Time
Posted November 6, 2025
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Job Description

The position involves safely loading bulk cargo onto vessels using heavy equipment, following safety protocols, maintaining accurate records, and performing mechanical troubleshooting, all within an industrial maritime environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Safely load bulk cargo onto vessels using heavy equipment such as loaders, cranes, and ship loaders
  • Follow safety procedures and regulations to meet load rates and quality standards
  • Maintain accurate records of cargo weights, measurements, and quantities
  • Perform equipment inspections, rigging, and basic mechanical troubleshooting
  • Communicate effectively with the operations team and ship crew
  • Keep work areas clean and organized

Requirements

  • Responsible for safe and efficient loading and handling of bulk cargo loading onto a vessel at a Barge, including use of heavy equipment loaders, crane, and ship loader to safely load bulk unpackaged materials.
  • Follow all regulations and safety guidelines to meet load rates and quality targets.
  • Follow all workplace and job safety procedures.
  • Ensure vessel is loading correctly, including load rate, gate control, and fine mitigation.
  • Understand load plan and maintain it to customer satisfaction.
  • Keep accurate records of cargo handled, including weights, measurements, and quantities.
  • Operate heavy equipment on vessel - loaders, cranes, and ship loader.
  • Perform equipment inspections and all rigging.
  • Identify upset conditions or potential failure points.
  • Perform basic mechanical troubleshooting, enter work orders, and assist maintenance with repairs.
  • Keep areas clean, neat, and orderly to meet housekeeping standards.
  • Communicate with the Operations team, including ship crew.
  • Ability to work multiple shift schedules and rotating shifts as required.
  • Ability to independently manage priorities and schedule to meet deadlines.
  • Willing and able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees.
  • Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment.
  • Work includes high places more than 175 feet, use of main lifts, and working in confined spaces.
  • Willing and able to maintain a strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
  • Able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, crawling, and pulling for up to twelve (12) hours per day.
  • Able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
  • Able to pull and lift up to 50 lbs.
  • Able to safely and successfully perform and meet qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards in accordance with ADA and other federal, state, and local standards.
  • Position is not eligible for visa support.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule includes evenings, weekends, and overnight shifts
Work environment includes outdoor conditions, high places over 175 feet, confined spaces, hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environments
Physical requirements include lifting up to 50 lbs, climbing, standing, pushing, crawling, and working in high places and around moving equipment

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