AddressABOUT THE ROLE
To operate the grinding system, run accurate quality tests, operate heavy equipment (as excavators, dozers, bobcats, loaders, and excavators), load bulk trucks, use billing system, and perform utility function or other duties as assigned for shift coverage.
On occasion, in the absence of a shift supervisor, the Relief Operator will also be responsible for coordinating shift work as necessary or assessing plant needs; including acting as lead-hand to ensure mill operations continue.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- The incumbent will work closely with employees from other departments including Maintenance and Shipping. At times, the employee may have contact with Customers and Vendors and is expected to act with Holcim’s best interests in mind.
- The operator must be able to use a computer and have general working knowledge, as well as ability to learn new software programs as required to operate the mill and other essential functions. The applicant must also have good communication skills.
- The applicant must be able to take initiative to diagnose/correct mill operation issues without necessarily being asked or told to do so
- The employee is required to be knowledgeable of the plant process, quality, and production requirements.
Specific Accountabilities:
- Perform start up, normal operation, and shutdown of the referenced systems.
- Perform equipment inspection and general housekeeping and miscellaneous tasks associated with production.
- Perform quality checks to ensure mill is operating within quality specifications
- Meets plant safety requirements and follows safe work practices.
- Operate heavy equipment as dozer, loader and Bobcat.
- Normal working hours are 8 or 12 hour rotating shifts
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Required Education: High School diploma/GED
Physical Demands:
The Physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee will frequently be required to walk on rocky, irregular surfaces that may be muddy and in reduced lighting conditions. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. The work will require at times, the use of miscellaneous hand tools, a pry bar and jackhammer. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
The employee will be required to wear Personal Protective Equipment, which includes safety glasses, steel-toed shoes with metatarsal protection, hearing protection, dust respirators, and other depending on specific activities to be performed.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles, confined space, outside weather conditions, low lighting, and artificial lighting. The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, proximity to low and high voltage electrical equipment, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and occasionally loud.
Additional Requirements:
- Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to health, safety and environmental policies in all work environments and areas. Promote a culture of safety and exhibit these behaviors.
- Successful candidates must adhere to all safety protocols and proper use of Holcim approved Personal Protection Equipment ("PPE"), including but not limited to respirators. Subject to applicable law, employees that are required to wear respirators must be clean shaven where the respirator seal meets the face in order to pass the qualitative and quantitative fit tests.
