Elevator Operator 1
Summary
Operates and maintains grain-handling equipment at a storage facility, including receiving, drying, blending, and loading grain while ensuring safety and equipment functionality.
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.