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, 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 fiber mixing processes, including mix piles and targets.
- Perform daily checks and basic maintenance on equipment, including cleaning, washing, and greasing.
- Monitor and adjust control room parameters to meet safety, quality, and productivity goals.
- Maintain accurate paperwork related to operations.
- Perform daily housekeeping to ensure a clean work environment.
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.
- 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.
- 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 on equipment, including blowing, washing, and greasing.
- 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 in accordance with standard operating procedures and safety standards.
- Perform daily housekeeping duties of work area to keep it up to company standards.
- Perform duties related to the logistical movement of raw and finished production on assigned shifts.
- Understand mix, mix piles, and mix targets when feeding various types of fiber into process.
- Maintain proper paperwork related to job functions.
- Perform other duties assigned for the job.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: Not specified
Work schedule: Assigned shifts
Work environment perks: Outdoor work in all weather conditions, climbing ladders up to 50 feet, working around moving equipment and machinery
Additional benefits: Internal company certification required, safety training and adherence to safety rules, physical activity including lifting up to 50 pounds, operating heavy industrial equipment, daily housekeeping duties
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