Elevator Operator

Job Details

Job Location:

CTO PNW - Umatilla, OR 97882

Position Type:
Seasonal

Salary Range: $16.64 - $24.43 Hourly

Job Shift: Any

Job Category:
Entry Level

Job Title:

Grain Elevator Operator

Job Classification:
Full-time

Reports to:

Grain Elevator Manager

FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt

This position is designed for individuals who are looking for new tasks, advancing their knowledge, and taking responsibility for their safe work behavior and the safety of their coworkers. The tasks include 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. Grain Elevator Operators will be cross trained to perform a variety of tasks including driving trucks and other motorized equipment.

This position will require maintaining a positive, forthright attitude that promotes a collaborative, respectful, and diverse corporate culture, and conducting themselves in a professional and favorable manner.

• Perform your job tasks in a safe manner in compliance with UGC safety programs and procedures.
• Take responsibility for your safe work behavior.
• Maintain your 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, rail and barge.
• Weigh or measure materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or read scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, 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 to maintain specified operating levels and detect equipment malfunctions.
• Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Inform supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed.

• High school diploma or GED degree and/or equivalent training required.
• Experience with computer programs such as the AS400, Agris, and MS suite of products is preferred.
• Proven interpersonal skills; must support a team‑oriented approach within the immediate facility as well as for United Grain Corporation.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with producers on a daily basis.
• Maintenance experience with a mechanical aptitude is required.

• This position can be physically strenuous from time to time. You will be expected to work in tight and confined spaces, walk, climb, bend, kneel, lift, grip, grasp, push, and pull various tools and equipment.
• May be required to ride a belt lift and occasionally work at significant heights with requisite balance and equilibrium.
• Ability to frequently lift, push, pull up to 50 pounds and occasionally more.
• Ability to ascend/descend ladders.
• Personal protective equipment, including hardhats, gloves, safety glasses, safety shoes, and respiratory protection and ear protection, are required.
• Must be computer literate with proven ability in the use of spreadsheets, database, and word‑processing software applications within a Windows‑based operating environment.
• Requires the ability to read and comprehend written and oral operational and safety instructions and related rules, policies, and memos, and communicate clearly with coworkers and supervisors.
• Must be able to make decisions and work independently; be detail‑oriented with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Vision that permits close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. When grading grain, the ability to identify and distinguish colors is also important.
• Ability to detect odors and the ability to understand and discern safety warning systems.
• This is a physical job that includes both indoor and outdoor work in all types of weather and temperature environments. The job may include working in and around grain dust.
• Flexible with work hours – must be prepared to receive phone calls and…