Elevator Operator 1

Job Title: Grain Elevator Operator

Job Classification: Seasonal

Reports to: Grain Elevator Manager

Job Summary

The Grain Elevator Operator works on a variety of tasks including 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. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform job tasks in a safe manner in compliance with UGC safety programs and procedures.
• Take responsibility for safe work behavior.
• Maintain work areas and facilities properly.
• Provide courteous and responsive customer service.
• Perform or assist in routine maintenance and repairs.
• Assist in the unloading or loading of grain commodities by truck or rail.
• Weigh or measure materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or read scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, in order to verify specified tonnages and prevent overloads.
• Maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
• Observe conveyor operations and monitor lights, dials, and gauges, in order to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Inform supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed.

Required Education and Experience

• High school diploma or GED degree and/or equivalent training required.
• Experience with industry computer programs and MS suite of products is preferred;
• Proven interpersonal skills; must support a team-oriented approach within the immediate facility as well as for United Grain Corporation
• Maintenance experience with a mechanical aptitude is preferred
• 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.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas in English by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to customers, public, and convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

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
• 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

This job description is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities perform the essential functions of the job. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the company may deem appropriate.

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.

Salary : $17 - $24