Job Description
A Pellet Mill Operator is responsible for operating and maintaining pellet production equipment, ensuring product quality, troubleshooting malfunctions, and adhering to safety and environmental standards in a sustainable wood bioenergy production facility.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain pellet mills to ensure optimal feed rates and pellet quality
- Adjust machine components such as rolls and dies to regulate speed, pressure, and temperature
- Monitor equipment performance and detect malfunctions using gauges and indicator lights
- Perform inspections and maintenance on equipment to keep it in good condition
- Conduct quality control testing, including ash tests and monitoring pellet quality
- Troubleshoot equipment malfunctions and coordinate repairs
- Ensure a clean work environment and perform housekeeping tasks
- Follow safety procedures and maintain production standards
- Document inspections, maintenance, and operational data accurately
- Escalate operational issues promptly for resolution
Requirements
- Operate and maintain several pellet mills, ensuring optimal feed rates, adjusting rolls dies, and monitoring pellet quality to meet company standards.
- Assist in conducting quality control (QC) testing, perform ash tests, and maintain a clean work environment.
- Analyze equipment performance and make necessary tooling and equipment changes to produce desired throughput and quality results.
- Perform and document required inspections of equipment and maintain equipment in good condition.
- Review work order specifications or instructions to determine materials, ingredients, procedures, extracting, forming, pressing, and compacting materials to produce pellets.
- Adjust machine components to regulate speed, pressure, and temperatures of the machine, as well as the amount, dimensions, and flow of materials and ingredients.
- Monitor machine operations and observe indicator lights and gauges, such as thermometers, voltage meters, and timers, to detect malfunctions.
- Perform coordinate maintenance on equipment as per job instructions and enter maintenance work requests as applicable.
- Perform coordinate housekeeping to required standards.
- Maintain consistent production quality to the required standard.
- Follow all workplace and job safety procedures.
- Complete accurate reporting as required and communicate operational information as needed.
- Escalate issues promptly for proper resolution.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule not specified
Work environment perks include maintaining a clean work environment and following safety procedures
Additional benefits include performing equipment maintenance, quality control testing, troubleshooting equipment malfunctions, and coordinate housekeeping
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