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Job Description
The Pellet Mill Operator is responsible for operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting pellet mill equipment to ensure high-quality production of sustainable wood pellets, while adhering to safety and environmental standards in a manufacturing environment.
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 troubleshoot malfunctions
- Conduct quality control testing, including ash tests
- Perform routine inspections and maintenance on equipment
- Ensure production meets safety and quality standards
- Document inspections, maintenance, and operational data
- Communicate operational issues and escalate as needed
Requirements
- Must demonstrate mechanical aptitude.
- Proficient in mathematics and measurements.
- Ability to read data and trends to make appropriate process adjustments.
- Proven record in upholding safety standards.
- High School Diploma or GED.
- At least two 2 years of previous manufacturing experience.
- Control operations of equipment or systems.
- Monitor gauges, dials, or other indicators to ensure machinery is working properly.
- Use logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Determine causes of operating errors and decide what to do about them.
- Perform routine maintenance on equipment and determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees.
- Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environment.
- Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
- Work at elevated heights and on slippery or uneven surfaces.
- Perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, and pulling for up to twelve hours a day.
- Work around moving equipment and machinery.
- Pull and lift up to 50 lbs.
- Climb a crane in excess of 100 feet high.
- Work from heights at least 20 feet off the ground.
- Climb vertical ladders up to 20 feet in length.
- Climb multiple flights of steps and angled ramps as needed.
- Work on computer screen format for up to twelve hours a day.
- Complete accurate reporting and communicate operational information as required.
- Enter maintenance work requests as applicable and escalate issues promptly for proper resolution.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule not specified
Work environment includes outdoor environments, hot, humid, cold, noisy industrial settings, working at heights, and on uneven surfaces
Willingness to work in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
Ability to work up to twelve hours a day
Physical tasks include lifting up to 50 lbs, climbing, walking, stooping, standing, pushing, and pulling
Use of safety equipment and adherence to safety procedures
Work at heights up to 100 feet and on ladders up to 20 feet
Work on computer screens for up to twelve hours a day
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