Job Description
The Mobile Equipment Operator is responsible for safely operating heavy industrial equipment to move raw materials and finished products in a sustainable wood bioenergy production environment, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency in daily operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate heavy industrial equipment such as front-end loaders, clamp forks, and caterpillar forest machine track loaders to unload logs and load production equipment.
- Inspect equipment regularly and report unsafe or improperly functioning machinery.
- Understand and manage feed mix, mix piles, and mix targets for different fiber types.
- Perform daily checks and basic maintenance on equipment, including cleaning, washing, and greasing.
- Monitor and adjust yard control room parameters to meet safety, quality, and productivity goals.
- Maintain accurate paperwork related to operations.
- Perform daily housekeeping to keep work area clean and safe.
Requirements
- Internal company certification required.
- Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions.
- Proficiency 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 and or 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.
- Willing and 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.
- Must be able to 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, to keep equipment in good working order.
- Inspect equipment and inform appropriate point of contact of potentially unsafe and 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.
- Understand mix, mix piles, and mix targets when feeding various types of fiber into process.
- Monitor and adjust wood yard control room operating parameters to ensure target safety, quality, and productivity targets.
- Maintain proper paperwork related to operations.
- Perform daily housekeeping duties of work area to keep it up to company standards.
- Responsible for other duties assigned for the job.
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 required
Ability to operate heavy industrial equipment
Training and certification required (internal company certification)
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