Receiving Operator - Bulk materials
EnvivaPosted February 25, 2025
Chesapeake, Virginia
Biomass EnergyFull Time
Job Description
The job involves receiving and testing wood pellets at a port facility, ensuring quality control and safety compliance while maintaining a clean work environment. The role requires effective communication with suppliers and the ability to operate mobile equipment.
Responsibilities
- •Receive pellets into the port and record data for accurate billing
- •Ensure safety of scale area and compliance with safety criteria
- •Collect samples and test finished goods delivered by truck and rail
- •Maintain QA QC records and adhere to Quality Standard Operating Procedures
- •Operate mobile equipment to move dust collection bags
- •Keep area clean and free of debris and accumulated dust
- •Complete safety certification as required
- •Enter maintenance work requests as applicable
- •Communicate operational information as required
- •Escalate issues promptly for resolution
Requirements
- •Ability to work multiple shift schedules and rotating shifts as required, understand maritime requirements.
- •High school diploma or able to complete GED requirements with six months of hire.
- •Must demonstrate mechanical aptitude.
- •Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions.
- •Proficient in mathematics and measurement.
- •Willing and able to 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, to include wearing safety equipment.
- •Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day.
- •Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
- •Willing and able to pull and lift, up to 50 lbs.
- •Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and or quantitative productivity standards.
Benefits
- •Compensation/salary range
- •Ability to work multiple shift schedules and rotating shifts as required
- •Work in outdoor environments and occasionally in extreme temperatures
- •Strict adherence to safety rules and regulations
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