What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planer position at Stimson Lumber Company?
The Planer Setup Trainee/Planer Feeder Person will:
- Learn to identify, communicate and help to solve hazards.
- Learn to apply technical understanding of planer to improve and optimize planer production, product quality and safety
- Support planer maintenance and repairs when needed, work in partnership with Maintenance team.
- Safely fix wrecks and blow ups in the planer area while adhering to the Planer Safety Practices.
- Operate the Planer Tilt Hoist to smoothly and efficiently feed rough lumber to the Planer while also maximizing product value and grade yield.
Qualifications:
- Must possess a strong commitment to safety.
- Possess a mechanical aptitude.
- Preferred but not required are experience, knowledge and troubleshooting of planers, planer set up and alignment, and knife grinding machines and equipment.
- Preferred but not required is experience and knowledge working with SapStain/Spraybox application.
- Possess and demonstrate a strong sense of urgency.
- Ability to work flexible hours, including weekends and OT as necessary.
- Ability to manage and balance competing priorities.
- Ability to lift 50 lbs, stand 10 hours per day, reach with hands and arms, stoop, squat, bend at the waist, kneel, climb stairs, and move equipment as needed
- Must be comfortable in loud conditions, with airborne particles (sawdust), and working around moving mechanical equipment-Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Team player and highly self-motivated individual
- Must be able to read and understand a micrometer and tape measure.
Salary : $40,400 - $51,200