Job Description
The Mobile Equipment Operator is responsible for safely operating heavy industrial equipment to move raw materials and finished products in a renewable energy wood pellet production facility, 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 for safety and proper functioning, reporting any issues.
- Manage the feeding of various fiber types into the process, understanding mix targets and piles.
- Perform daily checks and basic maintenance on equipment, including cleaning and greasing.
- Monitor and adjust yard control room parameters to meet safety, quality, and productivity goals.
- Maintain accurate paperwork related to operations.
- Conduct daily housekeeping to ensure a clean work environment.
Requirements
- Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions.
- Proficient in mathematics and measurement.
- Ability to work with little to no supervision.
- Internal company certification required.
- 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.
- 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.
- Willing and able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees, in all types of weather conditions.
- Perform daily checks and basic maintenance, including blowing, washing, and greasing, to keep equipment in good working order.
- Monitor and adjust wood yard control room operating parameters to ensure safety, quality, and productivity targets.
- Perform daily housekeeping duties of work area to keep it up to company standards.
- Perform the logistical movement of raw and finished production through the operational process on assigned shifts.
- Operate equipment such as Front-End Loaders, clamp fork, and caterpillar forest machine track loaders in accordance with standard operating procedures and safety standards.
- Inspect equipment and inform appropriate point of contact of potentially unsafe or improperly operating equipment.
- Understand mix, mix piles, and mix targets when feeding various types of fiber into process.
- Maintain proper paperwork related to job activities.
- Willing and able to climb ladders and work off elevated surfaces up to 50 feet on an occasional basis during each shift.
- Willing and able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees, in all types of weather conditions.
- Willing and able to meet qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
- This position is not eligible for visa support.
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
Physical activity including lifting up to 50 pounds, climbing, and operating heavy machinery
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