Operations Specialist II

Clarkson Grain Position

For over 50 years, Clarkson has been an industry pioneer in the production and supply of identity-preserved grains, oilseeds, and ingredients for food and feed industries worldwide. We work directly with end users to identify, select, and supply hybrids, varieties, and performance characteristics that improve end-product quality, enhance market access, increase process yield, and strengthen client differentiation.

Clarkson's transparent and fully traceable system connects Midwest farmers to premium domestic and international markets. Through our aggregation and cleaning facilities, corn and soybeans are prepared for final use; cleaned, conditioned, and shipped in bulk or bagged for delivery worldwide.

The 'Clarkson Way' is our long-proven approach to serving customers, supporting farmers, and managing quality with care, consistency, and integrity. It reflects the discipline, practicality, and customer-driven problem-solving that have defined Clarkson for more than five decades.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Scale, bag, and stitch bags and totes, inclusive of scaling totes (i.e. scoop corn in and out to achieve desired weight).
• Ensure traceability standards are met by differentiating between varieties while effectively and efficiently loading/unloading hopper bottom trucks.
• Effectively sweep bins to prepare them for the next variety then communicate completion with the Quality Assurance Specialist / Scale Operator and Production Supervisor.
• Efficiently and effectively operate the slip sheeter or fork truck to load containers and box vans with the appropriate attention to detail (load right product, read the right paperwork, do not mix up product or break bags).
• Clean facility inside and outside autonomously and proficiently with an appropriate attention to detail as well as efficiency.
• Inspect, clean, and prepare containers so they are in an appropriate condition for loading to prevent rejections. Take pictures of each step to verify process.
• Accurately complete and submit reports and documents in a timely manner. (i.e. maintains the bin measurement reports, pit change overs, and bin entry permits)
• Effectively measure bins and accurately complete paperwork for quality inspection and monitoring purposes.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Calculate simple math equations and read measurement devices (i.e. scale, measuring tape, etc.)
• Lift up to 55.2 pounds continuously.
• Complete forklift training certification within 30 days

Core Competencies

• Communication
• Energy
• Safety Focus
• Work Standards
• Adaptability
• Influencing
• Quality Orientation
• Initiating Action
• Technical/Professional Knowledge & Skills

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• HS diploma, GED, or equivalent experience

Special Requirements

• Requires a valid operator's license or reliable mode of transportation to travel within the trade territory.
• Willing and able to work overtime, as required.

Physical Demands

These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee must have the ability to regularly use arms, hands, and fingers to handle, feel, reach, grasp, turn, lift, move, twist or bend. This position frequently requires the ability to stand for long periods of time and frequently walk, climb, or balance to reach high destinations, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 55.2 pounds.

Specific talking, hearing, smelling, and vision abilities required by this job include talking with employees; listening to conversations; visual abilities job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, night vision, depth of perception, and ability to adjust focus; and have a sense of smell to identify issues related to the facility.

When operating vehicles or machinery, must have the ability to quickly respond with the hand, arm, or foot to a sound, light, or object(s) when it appears; the ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you and quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a vehicle or machinery to exact positions.

Work Environment

While performing the responsibilities of the job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the employee will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. While performing the duties of this job, this position may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, as well as dirty, wet, dry, hot, and cold working conditions. In addition, the employee may occasionally work in high precarious places and closed in surroundings. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.