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Job Description
The Control Room Operator monitors and manages plant systems to ensure safe, efficient, and continuous operation of a renewable wood bioenergy facility, responding to alarms, adjusting processes, and maintaining safety standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor plant systems and equipment continuously from the control room.
- Respond to alarms by taking corrective actions to maintain safe and efficient plant operation.
- Manage and control plant processes such as chip feed, fuel feed, furnace, dryer, and pellet presses.
- Adjust production line processes based on system signals and indicators.
- Operate computers and HMI touch screens to monitor and correct operational parameters.
- Maintain equipment temperature, safety standards, and working schedules.
- Assess and resolve equipment malfunctions and system issues using technical skills.
- Communicate with team members and respond to operational calls and alarms.
- Perform calculations related to flow, pressure, and performance metrics for plant operations.
- Follow written and verbal instructions, safety rules, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and written procedures.
- Ability to use basic hand tools.
- Must possess basic computer math skills.
- Able to learn how to operate HMI touch screens.
- High school diploma or GED.
- Experience in wood products, furnace dryer operations, or similar manufacturing environment.
- Strong aptitude in math to perform flow, pressure, performance, and meter calculations using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
- 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 hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environments.
- Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
- Occasionally walk on slippery or uneven surfaces.
- Ability to work shift assignments up to 12 hours that include weekends, nights, or rotating shifts.
- Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, and pulling for up to 12 hours a day.
- Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
- Willing and able to pull and lift up to 50 lbs.
- Be comfortable climbing ladders, conveyors, working at heights, and on steel grating.
- Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state, and local standards, including meeting productivity standards.
- Must be able to respond appropriately to alarms by taking corrective actions and procedures.
- Monitoring and managing plant systems such as chip feed system, fuel feed system, furnace, dryer system, primary and secondary sizing, and pellet presses.
- Monitoring indicator screens, signal lights, production rates, system statuses, and spark detection equipment.
- Adjusting production line processes based on signals and system feedback.
- Operating computers, monitors, and correcting operational values.
- Maintaining working schedules, equipment temperature, and safety standards.
- Assessing and adjusting to critical malfunctions and equipment failures using technical skills.
- Communicating effectively with team members and responding to calls for assistance, including multi-tasking with alarms and radio commands.
Benefits & Perks
Work shift assignments up to 12 hours that include weekends, nights or rotating shifts
Work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery
Willing and able to pull and lift up to 50 lbs
Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve hours a day
Willing and able to climb ladders, conveyors, work at heights and on steel grating
Strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment
Possibility to work in hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environments
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