Plant Operator

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for operating process equipment following standard operating procedures.
• This includes monitoring process variables, collecting samples, performing analysis, making process adjustments, moving, loading, and discharging raw materials;
• packaging and warehousing products, loading trucks, and keeping various process records.
• Must follow all safety rules, policies, and procedures to ensure a safe work environment.
• Adhere to the Zero Harm/Zero Waste Culture
• Actively support the Responsible Care efforts for facility
• Follows all safety rules policies, procedures, OSHA regulations
• Secures and reports unsafe conditions
• Attends required safety training
• Start, stop, monitor, and adjust process equipment to ensure safe, quality operation within specified limits
• Packages, labels, warehouses and loads finished goods for shipment
• Reads and follows production plans, planning work in conjunction with other team members
• Operates forklifts, pallet jacks and other material handling equipment
• Performs light maintenance work and aids maintenance employees along with completion of operations
• Preventative Maintenance work orders
• Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines, using control boards, or semi-automatic equipment
• Adjust control settings to make necessary changes on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, or yields
• Monitor recording instruments, flowmeters, panel lights, or other indicators and listen for warning signals, to verify conformity of process conditions
• Inspect operating units, such as towers, storage tanks, scrubbers, collectors, or driers to ensure that all are functioning and to maintain maximum efficiency
• Regulate or shut down equipment during emergency situations, as directed by supervisory personnel or as situations arise
• Draw samples of products/process solutions for quality control tests to monitor processing and to ensure that environmental and quality standards are met
• Record operating data, such as process conditions, test results, or instrument readings
• Performs other duties as assigned

• Manufacturing experience and 6+ months of plant experience preferred
• Must have good understanding of mechanical equipment
• Must be capable of understanding and using Microsoft Office products and DeltaV system

Koppers Inc. and its subsidiaries are equal-opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other category or characteristic protected by federal law, state, or local law.

Koppers, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an integrated global provider of treated wood products, wood treatment chemicals and carbon compounds. Its products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end-markets, including the railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber, and construction industries. With more than 1,800 employees, it serves its customers through a comprehensive global manufacturing and distribution network, with facilities located in North America, South America, Australasia, China and Europe.

Koppers is also firmly committed to advancing a Zero Harm culture that places the care and protection of its people, environment and communities above all else. This focused approach empowers employees to ensure safe operations through a heightened awareness of process safety, product safety, environmental stewardship and security. Koppers was established in December 1988 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and became a publicly-traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006.

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