What are the responsibilities and job description for the Wheat Receiving position at Star of the West?
Duties
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include but are not limited to the following:
• Receive all incoming deliveries of wheat
• Grade wheat
• Fill out all paperwork pertinent to the receiving of wheat, ie. driver logs and wheat tickets
• Obtain samples for testing in the mill laboratory
• Bin wheat based on wheat grading
• Maintain wheat complex
• Communicate with mill crew to ensure proper flow of wheat into the plant for production
• Monthly and yearly wheat inventories
• Member of local HACCP and / or Food Safety teams
Job Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Ability to read, write, comprehend and explain simple instructions
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or
diagram form, the ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized
situations. - Experience with Microsoft Office desired
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
Ohio Grain Grading Certificate
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:
• Stand, walk, talk and hear
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms
• Occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
• Frequently move up to 25 lbs and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs
•Close, distance, color, peripheral vision and depth perception and the ability to focus
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee
encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to:
• Fumes and/or airborne particles
• Outside weather conditions
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places
• Toxic or caustic chemicals
• Risk of electrical shock
• Loud working conditions