Receiving Operator - bulk materials

Essential Job Functions: Receive bulk materials - pellets in the port facility running quality testing and housekeeping duties to ensure area is properly cleaned and maintained.

Responsibilities

Receiving:

• Receive pellets into the port, record data to ensure accurate billing
• Ensure safety of scale area and that loads meet safety criteria
• Keep scale and ramps clean and free of debris
• Communicate in a professional and courteous manner with our suppliers
• Port of Wilmington specific operate shuttle wagon as directed

Quality:

• Collect samples and test finished goods delivered by truck and/or rail
• Maintain QA/QC records and follow Quality Standard Operating Procedures
• Analyze equipment performance and make quality results

Housekeeping:

• Keep area generally neat and orderly
• Operate mobile equipment such as Bobcat and Lull to move dust collection bags
• Keep area clean of accumulated dust
• Follow all workplace and job safety procedures

General:

• Complete safety certification as required for the position
• Communicate operational information as required
• Enter maintenance work requests as applicable
• Escalate issues promptly for proper resolution
• Perform other duties as required and serve as a back-up resource as needed

Qualifications

• Ability to work multiple shift schedules and rotating shifts as required, understand maritime requirements
• High school diploma or able to complete GED requirements with six months of hire
• Must demonstrate mechanical aptitude
• Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions
• Proficient in mathematics and measurement
• Team player demonstrated with past work experience or activities

Preferred Qualifications - What Will Set You Apart

• Skilled in use of Windows, Excel, Word and Outlook

Working Conditions

• Must be able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
• Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environment
• Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, to include wearing safety equipment.

Physical Requirements

• Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day
• Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery
• Willing and able to pull and lift, up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.