Loader Operator

Job Title: Loader Operator
Location: Imlay City, MI, 48444
Duration: Contract

Summary:

• Responsible for preparing organic mixes using a heavy equipment loader, pushes piles to ensure segregation of materials and places material in the shakers to ensure the machines have a continuous flow of material.
• **1st shift timings: 5:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Prepares organic mixes by using the Bill of Materials to ensure the correct ingredients are used in the correct proportions
• Supplies the line with a continuous supply of material
• Pushes piles to ensure setbacks, pile height and stockpile shaping meets the criteria set by the Department of Environmental Health Services
• Performs a safety and equipment check before each use of the loader
• Receives load tickets from haulers, ensures accuracy, signs, accumulate until the end of the day and forwards the tickets in a neat and clean appearance to the office personnel for inventory entry
• Pumps diesel fuel into the loader by an electrical pump and ensures all safety practices are used to prevent injury
• Monitors the stockpiles for excessive heat, turns stockpiles and ensures the proper amount of water is used to prepare the stockpile for production use
• Meets quality and quantity standards
• Performs the proper operation and minor maintenance of equipment
• Accurately verifies quantity of material.
• ​**Facility Expectations for Temporary Employees
• ​PPE:We require employees to wear required PPE at all times. PPE requirements may vary by task and ​area. At minimum, high visibility clothing, hard hat, eye, and foot protection (steel toed boots or shoes that ​are slip resistant) are required. Cut 2 level gloves for all tasks. Hearing protection is required in ​production areas. We provide all PPE except footwear. PPE is expected to be returned upon assignment ​completion.
• ​DRESS CODE: Long pants that are of cotton or synthetic material are acceptable, no leggings, spandex, or sweatpants. Casual shirts, long or short sleeved that cover the shoulders are acceptable, no tank tops or tops with bare shoulders. Also inappropriate are shirts with potentially offensive and / or explicit words, terms, logos, pictures, cartoons, or slogans. Employees must have steel toed boots and/or shoes.
• ​TOBACCO POLICY: We are a tobacco-free facility. There is no tobacco use permitted on our property at ​any time.
• ​CALL-IN PROCEDURE: In addition to notifying the temporary agency the employee will be late or not ​reporting to work, we would appreciate a courtesy call prior to the start of the associates shift.
• ​Recommended information: Name, Associate Number (this will be their time-clock number), reason for absence, if sick, basic symptoms they are showing, and dates of absence, with expected return to work date, and a call back number.

​If the absence is COVID-19 related, they must provide:

• COVID-19 testing status
• If associate has been exposed or possibly exposed to someone else with diagnosed or presumed COVID-19 (details on timing and who they were exposed to needs to be provided)
• Under quarantine order from the government or health care provider, and why (possible exposure, underlying health risk, traveled from high-risk area, etc.)
• Names of other Scotts/Contingent associates who the associate had contact with, to determine if ​other associates were potentially exposed and dates of exposure

COVID-19 GUIDELINES:

• ​Effective 10/10/2021, face coverings will be required for all associates, vendors, contractors and visitors upon entering our facilities. For clarity, face coverings are required:
• In all indoor spaces - including production areas, offices and all common areas (hallways, walk-ways, ​break/lunchrooms, restrooms, maintenance shops, storerooms, labs, etc.)
• To be worn appropriately so they cover BOTH your nose and mouth. ​Face coverings can be removed in the following situations or conditions:
• While you are consuming food or drink (Note: You must still maintain 6’ distance or have barriers to separate).
• When operating PITs or working outdoors. (Anytime a second person is within 6’, face coverings are required.)

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED - 2-4 years’ experience in heavy equipment operation

Skills and Competencies: -

• Ability to operate and maintain heavy equipment (loader/dozer)
• Ability to maintain stockpile slopes to ensure safe work environment
• Ability to sit in a loader for many hours in a dusty, hot environment
• Ability to climb into and out of equipment repeatedly
• Knowledge of safe practice and procedures
• Ability to read English and/or follow instructions, and communicate effectively

Benefits

• Dental
• Eye Care
• Medical

Job Type: Contract

Work Location: In person