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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 production environment, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency in the wood pellet manufacturing process.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate heavy industrial equipment such as front-end loaders and track loaders to unload logs and load production equipment.
- Inspect equipment for safety and proper functioning, reporting any issues.
- Understand and manage fiber mixing processes and targets.
- Perform daily equipment checks and basic maintenance to ensure operational readiness.
- Monitor and adjust control room parameters to meet safety, quality, and productivity goals.
- Maintain accurate paperwork related to operations.
- Perform daily housekeeping to uphold cleanliness standards.
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, 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.
- Ability 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.
- Understand mix, mix piles, and mix targets when feeding various types of fiber into process.
- Perform daily housekeeping duties of work area to keep it up to company standards.
- Perform 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
Willingness to work in all weather conditions, including temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
Safety equipment provided and required
Physical activity including lifting up to 50 pounds, climbing, stooping, and standing
Training and certification requirements (internal company certification required)
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