Job Description
The Mobile Equipment Operator at Enviva is responsible for safely operating heavy industrial equipment to manage the movement of raw materials and finished products in a wood bioenergy production environment, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity standards are met.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate heavy industrial equipment such as front-end loaders, clamp forks, and forest machine track loaders to unload logs and load production equipment.
- Inspect equipment regularly and report unsafe or improperly functioning machinery.
- Understand and manage fiber mixing processes to meet production targets.
- Perform daily checks and basic maintenance on equipment, including cleaning and greasing.
- Monitor and adjust control room parameters to ensure safety, quality, and productivity standards.
- Maintain accurate paperwork related to operations.
- Perform housekeeping duties to keep the work area clean and safe.
Requirements
- Internal company certification required.
- Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions.
- Proficient in mathematics and measurement.
- High school diploma or GED.
- Willing and able to operate heavy material moving equipment requiring extended periods of sitting.
- Willing and able to perform tasks such as occasionally pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 50 pounds, walking, climbing, stooping, and standing.
- Ability to operate levers with both hands while seated for long periods.
- Ability to bend, squat, climb, and lift items above shoulders occasionally.
- Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
- Must be able to climb ladders and work off elevated surfaces up to 50 feet on an occasional basis during each shift.
- Must be able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees, in all types of weather conditions.
- Occasionally walk on slippery or uneven surfaces.
- Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
- Perform daily checks and basic maintenance, including blowing, washing, and greasing equipment.
- Monitor and adjust wood yard control room operating parameters to ensure safety, quality, and productivity targets.
- Inspect equipment and inform appropriate point of contact of potentially unsafe or improperly operating equipment.
- Operate equipment such as Front-End Loaders, clamp fork, and caterpillar forest machine track loaders to unload log trucks and load logs into production equipment and log storage areas.
- Perform daily housekeeping duties of work area to keep it up to company standards.
- Perform tasks related to understanding mix, mix piles, and mix targets when feeding various types of fiber into process.
- Maintain proper paperwork related to operations.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule not specified
Work environment includes outdoor conditions and elevated surfaces up to 50 feet
Safety equipment provided and strict safety rules and regulations to follow
Opportunities for internal certification
Physical activity involved including operating heavy equipment, climbing, lifting up to 50 pounds, and working in various weather conditions
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