Operator IV - Front End

Job Purpose:
Produces process product by preparing, establishing, monitoring, and controlling production processes; maintaining quality, safety, and cleanliness standards; documenting production and processes; maintaining equipment.
 
Duties:
Prepares for process production by reading production schedules, drawings, and processing specifications; retrieving materials from inventory; sampling materials; sending samples to laboratory; verifying laboratory acceptance; calculating and measuring materials; checking tanks, vessels, piping, valves, steam traps, pumps, compressors, prime movers, heat exchangers, reactors, separators, mixers, and distillers.

Establishes production processing specifications by setting and programming processing controls; setting values, pumps, compressors and auxiliary equipment.  

Monitors processing production by operating distributed control systems (DCS); reviewing processing variables; observing control panels and alarms; analyzing operating logs; determining process stability; adjusting and reprogramming controls.  Maintains quality production by obtaining and testing process samples; conducting inspections; recommending process improvements.

Documents process production by logging processing statistics.

Ensures operation of processing system by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; reporting malfunctioning units;

Maintains safe and clean processing environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations; patrolling unit.

Maintains continuity among work shifts by communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.

Skills & Experience Preferred:
 
 · Distillation and/or vacuum experience
 · Effective written and verbal communication
 · High school diploma or equivalent
 · 2-5 years experience including: manufacturing methods and procedures; process improvement; analyzing information; understanding of controls and instrumentation; maintaining manufacturing quality

Requirements:

Must be able to lift at least 50 pounds.

Must be able to work over 8 hours a day and over 40 hours per week.

Schedule: 12-hr rotating shift, days and nights and weekends

Pay Rate:  $34.96/hr