Description

Job Type: Full time

Shift Schedule: Day shift

Salary: $20-21 depending on experience

Shift: 2nd and 3rd shift M-F

** Pre-employment background check and drug screen required.

Machine Operator Demonstrated Competence:

• Follow required startup procedures of burner and dryer systems. 
• Safely operate front end loader and or skid steer while introducing raw materials to dryer system. 
• Perform required quality inspections of raw material and finished product.
• Complete daily quality reports as required. 

Machine Operator Inspections and Maintenance:

• Always keep production levels at the highest level possible without jeopardizing SAFETY, plant equipment, or quality.
• Perform required maintenance inspection and tasks related to burner and dryer equipment.
• Perform required maintenance inspection and tasks related to front end loader and or skid steer.

Machine Operator Communication and Teamwork:

• Maintain good communications with all shifts across all shifts. 
• Report all safety incidents no matter how minor to Production Manager and or Plant Manager.
• Report equipment failures and potential equipment failures to Production Manager and or Plant Manager.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Machine Operator Qualifications/Education:

• High School diploma or GED preferred
• Manufacturing and production line experience required
• Prior experience operating manufacturing equipment, 
• Must possess good eye, hand, and foot coordination
• Ability to concentrate for extended periods of time and multi-task
• Must be able to lift to 50 lbs. and stand for a minimum of 7 hours per day
• Required to read and interpret scales
• Requires mechanical aptitude and troubleshooting skills
• Requires the ability to do simple math calculations

Machine Operator Benefits:

• Annual Bonus
• Employee referral bonus program
• 2 weeks paid time off 2 floating holidays
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (FSA & HSA options)
• Life insurance, short term & long-term disability
• 401(k) with employer match & immediate vesting
• Employee heating pellet program
• Lignetics SWAG gear to include an annual pair of work boots & other PPE

About Lignetics, Inc.

Lignetics, Inc. offers clean, renewable solutions. We have 30 years of experience innovating? eco-friendly essentials for everyday life. Lignetics manufactures a variety of consumer brands in several different categories including wood pellets for home heating, BBQ pellets for grilling, wood pellets and shavings for animal bedding, and a wood fiber-based cat litter. Each of our products have unique features and benefits but are all linked with a wonderful recycled, renewable, sustainable, and carbon neutral story. We turn recycled sawdust into value-add, branded consumer products.

Lignetics believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity (EEO) and does not discriminate against its employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, or on any other protected status under state, local or federal law. Equal employment opportunity is extended to all persons in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall and termination.