Plant Operator
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This position is a great opportunity for an enlisted service-member to leverage their work ethic and industrial / shipboard experience to tart a career in high-speed manufacturing. - Sets up, prepares and monitors machines and equipment for operation according to production requirements. Such equipment and machines may include grinding mills, sifters, elevators, bag-houses, rotary screws, rotary gas dryer, heat exchanges, and other process equipment.- Operate the grinding department in a manner intended to meet goals in safety, environment, quality, production and cost control.- Supports supervisor, maintenance, and plant personal as team member.- Receives cullet deliveries. Signs cullet receipts and logs all deliveries electronically. - Operates the furnaces in a manner intended to meet plant goals in safety, environment, quality, production and cost control. Examples of this include operating furnaces in a way to maximize furnace efficiency (lb/therm) and plant production in a manner that is safe and environmentally compliant.- Takes tank readings and maintains plant operations to ensure tanks are properly balanced without shutting down the process.- Is responsible for maintaining accurate logs and electronically documenting furnace related data.- Routinely monitors environmental conditions in the plant and takes appropriate investigative and corrective actions and makes timely notifications.- Understands that safe work practices are a condition of employment and is actively engaged in activities such as hazard IDs and assisting in updating work procedures.- Participates in plant-wide HSE, quality and productivity initiatives.- Participates on the Safety Committee on a voluntary rotating basis.- Participates in HSE activities (that is, Toolbox meetings, monthly plant audits, accident investigations, Hazard IDs, and so on).