Shipping & Receiving Operator – Ethanol Plant-240011Z @ Valero Energy

• Operates and maintains all processes associated with corn receiving, corn storage, product storage, unloading, and loading.
• Unloads corn from trucks and railcars.
• Loads ethanol into trucks and railcars.
• Loads distiller’s grains into trucks, railcars, and containers.
• Takes samples of corn, ethanol, and distiller’s grains for testing.
• Operates plant scale house; probes, analyzes, and grades corn, weighs trucks in and out, enters data into scale house software, issues paperwork to drivers.
• Operates meters and bulk weighers to facilitate product loading.
• Operates locomotive or rail mover to move railcars on plant site to facilitate loading and unloading of product.
• Operates large machinery and equipment such as front end loaders and lifts.
• Participates in safety, health, and environmental programs. (LOTO-lock out tag out, Safe Work Permit, FSMA-Food Safety Modernization Act).
• Performs preventive maintenance tasks as required.
• Performs routine housekeeping duties to maintain a clean work environment.
• Monitors area equipment and assists with maintenance as required.
• Communicates regularly with local rail service to facilitate rail movement activities.

This position is hourly nonexempt status, which means you are eligible for overtime pay.

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Experience with the movement and loading of rail cars preferred.
• Experience working with heavy equipment in an industrial environment or grain elevator preferred.
• Experience with the operation of front-end loaders, forklift trucks, rail movers, man lifts, and related material handling equipment preferred.
• Experience in the operation of a dry-mill ethanol plant preferred.
• Experience with standard computer software programs, i.e. Microsoft Outlook and SAP, preferred.