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Job Description
Job Id:
499
# of Openings:
1
BATCH PLANT OPERATOR
Position Summary:
This position is responsible for performing various job tasks on hazardous and non-hazardous waste sites. Work performed on hazardous waste sites may include possible exposure to lead, PCBs, H2S, arsenic, and various other metals, chemicals, and conditions. Batch plant operation is a skilled trade that involves the operation and quality assurance of a batch plant, soil stabilization equipment, and the operation of various pieces of heavy equipment, including but not limited to drills, augers, excavators, telehandlers, and more. May repair and maintain equipment in addition to regular duties.
- Quality fleet of heavy equipment
- Good long-term employment prospects
- Experience with ISS (In-Situ Stabilization/Solidification) and soil mixing projects preferred
- Per diem/ living allowance and trips home
- 40-hour HAZWOPER training required
- Subject to background check & physical/drug screen
- Must be able to wear PPE when needed
- Workdays > 8 hrs. / day, 5 to 6 days per week, potential for rotating shifts
Company benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, disability, sick pay per state law, 401k
Full Time Pay: $27-30 per hour plus overtime per state law, travel pay and per diem per company policy.
Nationwide/Regional: Candidates must be open to sustained project-based travel within the US. Project locations will vary depending on the assignment. Candidates can reside anywhere within the US.
Essential Job Functions:
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- Perform in a safe and compliant manner.
- Oversee the daily operation of batch plant, including cleaning and maintaining equipment and work area.
- Be able to perform the principal duties and responsibilities of the craft workers under their supervision.
- Weigh, measure and mix material, ingredients and products to ensure quality of reagent materials produced.
- Conduct quality assurance tests to ensure the product complies with industry’s standards and client specifications.
- Record operational, production, and safety data as required.
- Excavate, move, or grade contaminated or non-contaminated earth.
- Excavate contaminated or non-contaminated sludge material.
- Mixing reagents with contaminated soil or hazardous waste.
- Ability to read and understand construction specifications, construction plans, and operating procedures.
- Cutting and filling grades per plan specifications.
- Loading materials into trucks for removal from project site.
- Loading and unloading trucks for onsite transporting of materials.
- Haul material in trucks to an on-site unloading area.
- Moving of materials, laying pipe, backfilling pipe.
- Loading and unloading equipment from trailers.
- Lifting and setting heavy loads.
- Assist with the preparation and review of Job Safety Analyses, observations, and other reports.
- Promote the use of Stop Work Authority.
- Coordinate work with other crafts and co-workers on the job. Listen to co-workers and subordinates’ suggestions and concerns, paying full attention and taking the time to understand. Ask questions and provide feedback as appropriate. Consult with supervisor on any issues.
- Provide training and mentoring to other operators, helpers and laborers on the project.
- Inspect subordinates work for compliance with contract plans, specifications and industry standards. Indicate deficiencies, provide training on corrective action, and correct as needed.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
- Ability to meet deadlines and contribute to a positive, safe, high-quality culture in a fast-paced environment.
- Other duties as assigned.
Physical and Visual Activities Required:
Physical and visual activities that are commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job include:
- Performing physical activities that may require moving one’s whole body, such as climbing, lifting, carrying, pulling, pushing, reaching, handling, balancing, walking, stooping, squatting, where the activities often require considerable use of the hands, arms and legs such as in the physical handling of materials or tools or operation of tools and equipment.
- Use both hands, arms, feet, and legs while standing, walking, climbing, sitting, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, reaching, handling, fingering, and feeling. Other requirements include talking, hearing, acuity-near, distinguishing colors, peripheral vision, sense of smell, and hand to eye coordination. Hear the direction from which a sound originated. Detect distance of objects and depth perception.
- Controlling operations of equipment or systems. Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Listening to what other people are saying and asking questions as appropriate.
Physical Demands:
Physical demands commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job include:
- Sitting for long periods of time in moving, vibrating, jerking, or stationary machinery.
- Using installed equipment ladder, steps, and handholds maintaining 3 points of contact to climb in and out of machinery on regular basis.
- Working in heat stress conditions.
- Repetitive motion from operating hand and foot controls of the equipment.
- Hand cleaning tracks and undercarriages with small tools after working in wet and sloppy conditions.
- Expected to lift objects weight 1 to 25 lbs. on a regular basis and may be required to lift objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
- Working in loud or noisy environments.
Environmental/Atmospheric Conditions:
Environmental and atmospheric conditions commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job include:
- Outside construction site.
- Terrain is rugged and may be difficult to navigate.
- Dusty and windy atmospheres.
- Hot environments.
- Confined spaces.
- Potential airborne exposures to dust, mist, fumes, and vapors in concentrations not exceeding OSHA Permissible Exposure Limits (PELS) or other published occupational exposure limits.
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Different types of personal protective equipment (PPE) may be worn including, but not limited to hard hat, hearing protection such as ear plugs or muffs, eye protection such as safety glasses, goggles, face shield, etc., welders helmet, safety vest, various types of gloves including leather, Nitrile, latex, etc., steel toe boots, and various respiratory protection such as dust masks, half face and full face respirators, SCBAs, APRs, etc. may be required depending on site conditions. Protective coveralls include cotton, Tyvek, fire retardant, chemical protective, etc.
Qualifications:
- Knowledge: Must possess and demonstrate skills to safely operate heavy equipment (backhoe, bulldozer, excavator, etc.). and is knowledgeable of their uses and limitations.
- Experience: 3-5 years’ experience in operating heavy equipment, preferably in environmental remediation projects.
- Education: HS Diploma or equivalent.
- Machines, Tools, Equipment Used: Rubber-tire or track heavy equipment such as backhoes, loaders, dozers, and excavators; tractors, articulated dump trucks, motor graders, scrapers, pumps, dewatering systems, pugmills, batch plants, dredges, crushers, screens, etc. Hand tools and power tools.
- Licenses/Certifications: Must have completed necessary training required per OSHA HAZWOPER including an annual 8-hour refresher. Must have a valid driver’s license with no driving restrictions which interfere with job requirements.
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