Job Details

WHO WE ARE

At United Grain Corporation, our employees are our most valuable asset. For over 50 years, we have been a premier grain exporter and supply chain management company for the export of agricultural grain products. We have been serving the needs of American grain producers and suppliers, fulfilling the evolving needs of our global customers, uniting them, and creating success for all. In the process of doing this, we feed the world safely and reliably. We want employees to feel like they are part of a family, the UGC family.

WHAT UGC CAN OFFER YOU IN THIS POSITION

 Pay: $17.00-$20.00 an hour

BENEFITS:

JOB SUMMARY

This position is designed for individuals who are looking for new tasks, advance their knowledge and take responsibility for their safe work behavior and the safety of their coworkers. The tasks include but are not limited to: grain receiving, storage handling, drying, blending, and loading of grain; monitoring stored grain condition and maintaining and cleaning grain facilities and equipment to provide a safe environment. Grain Elevator Operators will be cross trained to perform a variety of tasks including drive trucks and other motorized equipment. This position will be required to maintain a positive, forthright attitude that promotes a collaborative, respectful, and diverse corporate culture, and conducts themselves in a professional and favorable manner.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs your job tasks in a safe manner in compliance with UGC safety programs and procedures.
• Takes responsibility for your safe work behavior.
• Maintains your work areas and facilities properly.
• Provides courteous and responsive customer service.
• Performs or assists in routine maintenance and repairs.
• Assists in the unloading or loading of grain commodities by truck, rail and barge.
• Weighs or measures materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or reads scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, in order to verify specified tonnages and prevent overloads.
• Maintains equipment, machinery, and workstations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
• Observes conveyor operations and monitors lights, dials, and gauges, in order to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Observes and listens to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Informs supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

• High school diploma or GED degree and/or equivalent training required.
• Maintenance experience with a mechanical aptitude is required.
• Agricultural experience is preferred but not required.
• Must be authorized to work in the US. 
• Experience with computer programs such as AS400, Agris, and MS suite of products is preferred, but not required.
• Proven interpersonal skills; must support a team-oriented and inclusive approach with a high level of integrity and reliability. 
• Ability to communicate both orally and written effectively with employees and customers.
• Ability to understand and follow all safety guidelines. 

Physical Demands and Requirements

• This position can be physically strenuous from time to time. You will be expected to be able to work in tight and confined spaces, walk, climb, bend, kneel, lift, grip, grasp, push, and pull various tools and equipment. May be required to ride a belt lift and occasionally work at significant heights with requisite balance and equilibrium. Ability to frequently lift, push, pull up to 50 pounds and occasionally more. This job will require the ability to ascend/descend ladders.
• Personal protective equipment, including hardhats, gloves, safety glasses, safety shoes, and respiratory protection and ear protection are required.
• Requires the ability to read and comprehend written and oral operational and safety instructions and related rules, policies, and memo, and communicate clearly with your coworkers and supervisors.
• Vision that permits close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. When grading grain, the ability to identify and distinguish colors is also important.
• Ability to detect odors and the ability to understand and discern safety warning systems.
• This is a physical job that includes both indoor and outdoor work in all types of weather and temperature environments. The job includes working in and around grain dust.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

United Grain Corporation is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or age. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.