LABOR-LN RM,CL RM,SD HL-1ST

Bale Press Operator

Responsible for operating a squeeze truck and bale press to tie, weigh, and move linter bales. This role ensures equipment and work areas are kept clean and in good working condition while adhering to all safety protocols and company procedures.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Press and tie bales
• Dress bales in linter cloth.
• Keep daily record of bales (number and weights)
• Move and stack bales with a forklift or bale clamp.
• Assist other bale press operators when necessary.
• Performs routine maintenance on mill equipment such as lubricating, cleaning, and minor mechanical repair.
• Report all mechanical problems to the supervisor.
• Report all safety hazards to the supervisor.
• Blow dust and lint from overhead structures.
• Keep work area clean by sweeping, shoveling, picking up trash, etc.

Squeeze Truck/Loader Responsibilities:

1. Operating the Squeeze Truck: Safely maneuvering the equipment to load, transport, and unload products.
2. Handling Delicate Loads: Using the squeeze mechanism to securely hold materials like large rolls or bales, ensuring they aren't damaged.
3. Safety Practices: Following safety protocols to prevent accidents and ensure the safe handling of materials.
4. Maintenance Checks: Performing routine checks on the forklift, including fluid levels, hydraulic systems, and ensuring the equipment is in proper working condition.
5. Warehouse Operations: Assisting in other warehouse tasks, such as inventory management and loading/unloading shipments.

Required Skills:

• Precision and Control: Accurately controlling the squeeze mechanism and forklift to move delicate loads.
• Attention to Detail: Ensuring loads are secured properly to avoid damage.
• Forklift Certification: Operators usually require certification for handling forklifts, including those with specialized attachments like the squeeze clamp.

Qualification Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: Less than high school education; or up to one-month of related experience or training~ or equivalent of education and experience.

Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Drivers license preferred.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel object, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. The employee will occasionally have to push a cart carrying a bale weighing approximately 650 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and in outside weather conditions. The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock, and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Use of personal protective equipment such as; safety glasses, respirators, hearing protectors, etc., is required in designated areas.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

PLAINSMAN COMPANY, LLC. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

We value diversity and inclusion in our workplace and believe that a variety of perspectives foster innovation and success. Our hiring, promotion, compensation, and training practices are designed to ensure fairness and equity for all employees.

PLAINSMAN COMPANY, LLC. complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment, including but not limited to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), and other relevant statutes.