Augmented Utility Operator

Application Deadline: 5 June 2026

Department: Operations

Employment Type: Contract

Location: Clifty Creek

Compensation: $26.62 / hour

Description

• Follow our Safety Guiding Principles
• All injuries are preventable
• All employees are responsible for preventing injuries
• Plan safety into your work
• Look out for one another

• Commit to being a good steward of the environment and satisfy our environmental compliance obligations
• Be mindful of fiscal responsibilities
• Provide quality work for a reliable and efficient product

• Be positive and open to new ideas
• Be an active listener
• Be accountable for your position
• Operational Excellence
• Be an active participant in training sessions and meetings
• Be proficient at your job and know its role in how it impacts the company’s performance
• Actively pursue and/or provide training and developmental opportunities for yourself and others

• Continuously seek and embrace change
• Create solutions to problems
• Be engaged and take an active role in continuous improvement activities

• Promote a safe, reliable and cost-effective culture
• Be a collaborative team player
• Understand what excellence looks like and strive to reach it

• Understand that everyone has a leadership role
• Cast a positive shadow
• Be professional and respectful of others in your behaviors and communications with others

• Be coachable – accept coaching and feedback to improve not only your performance, but that of the entire team. Utilize the OVEC coaching model.
•  Be self-motivated, adaptable, actively engaged and proactive
• Cooperate with others

• Be accountable – take pride, ownership and responsibility in the work that you do
• Be timely and punctual
• Be productive
• Continuous Improvement
• Develop and maintain a cross-functional, helping behavior
• Bring solutions to problems
• Relentlessly pursue improvement to our production processes

Key Responsibilities

• Support fly ash removal by clearing hoppers through manual and/or mechanical means.
• Fly ash deck housekeeping.
•  When assigned, clean river intake grills and remove collected debris, maintain trash rake area in a clean and orderly condition.
• Make incidental and/or occasional replacement of accessible light bulbs.
• Clean and perform lubrication of assigned equipment.
• Assist employees of equal or higher classification.
• Maintain equipment, tools and work areas in a clean and orderly condition; clean equipment, tools and work areas after completion of job.
• Report irregularities and abnormal conditions.
• Instruct and direct the work of other employees assigned to assist in the work.
•  Perform duties in accordance with operating instructions, safety regulations, and current practices.
• Perform similar or less skilled work, as assigned.
• Perform duties in accordance with all applicable federal and state safety laws and regulations, and all applicable company safety rules and operating procedures.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Through a combination of education and/or experience must have sufficient knowledge and skills to perform the duties and/or responsibilities listed above.
• Must hold a valid State Driver’s license.
• Must be familiar with the rules, safety practices and procedures applicable to the work.  Must be able to learn the tools and equipment and their use as required in the work.  Must be able to read, interpret and work from simple prints and specifications and have the ability to gain a working knowledge of OSHA, Environmental guidelines and plant property.

Job Benefits

• Paid Days Off
• Holidays
• Vacation
• Monetary incentives/Employee Incentive Plan