Job Description
This position involves receiving, testing, and maintaining quality of sustainable wood pellets at a port facility, while ensuring safety, cleanliness, and operational efficiency in an industrial environment.
Responsibilities
- •Receive and record pellets at the port, ensuring accurate billing and safety compliance
- •Operate equipment such as shuttle wagons, Bobcat, and Lull to move materials and maintain cleanliness
- •Collect samples, perform quality testing, and maintain QA/QC records according to standards
- •Maintain cleanliness and organization of the work area, including dust collection and debris removal
- •Follow safety procedures, complete safety certifications, and escalate safety or operational issues
- •Perform maintenance work requests and serve as a backup resource as needed
Requirements
- •Receive pellets into the port, record data to ensure accurate billing, and ensure safety of the scale area so that loads meet safety criteria.
- •Keep the scale and ramps clean and free of debris.
- •Communicate in a professional and courteous manner with suppliers.
- •Operate shuttle wagon as directed.
- •Collect samples and test finished goods delivered by truck and/or rail, maintain QA/QC records, and follow Quality Standard Operating Procedures.
- •Analyze equipment performance and make quality results.
- •Keep the area generally neat and orderly.
- •Operate mobile equipment such as Bobcat and Lull to move dust collection bags.
- •Keep the area clean of accumulated dust.
- •Follow all workplace and job safety procedures.
- •Complete safety certification as required for the position.
- •Communicate operational information as required.
- •Enter maintenance work requests as applicable.
- •Escalate issues promptly for proper resolution.
- •Perform other duties as required and serve as a back-up resource as needed.
- •Ability to work multiple shift schedules and rotating shifts as required, understanding maritime requirements.
- •High school diploma or ability to complete GED requirements within six months of hire.
- •Demonstrate mechanical aptitude.
- •Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions.
- •Proficient in mathematics and measurement.
- •Ability to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees.
- •Willing and able to work in hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial environments.
- •Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
- •Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing, and pulling for up to twelve hours a day.
- •Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
- •Willing and able to lift and pull up to 50 lbs.
- •Ability to perform essential job functions safely and successfully in accordance with ADA and other standards, including meeting productivity standards.
Benefits
- •Compensation/salary range (not specified in the posting)
- •Work schedule including multiple shift schedules and rotating shifts
- •Work environment perks such as working outdoors and in industrial conditions, including temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees, hot, humid, cold, and noisy environments
- •Safety training and certification
- •Use of safety equipment
- •Physical ability to perform tasks such as lifting up to 50 lbs, climbing, standing, and working around moving equipment
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