What are the responsibilities and job description for the Yard Attendant-NorthStar Clean Energy position at Consumers Energy?
NorthStar Clean Energy decarbonizes the economy by providing clean energy and carbon management solutions to utility, municipal, commercial, and industrial customers enabling them to meet their sustainability and business goals. Additionally, we own and operate natural gas assets throughout the United States. To learn more about NorthStar Clean Energy, please visit www.northstarcleanenergy.com .
This position is with NorthStar Clean Energy, a CMS Energy company, and is not a position of employment with Consumers Energy.
This position is responsible for operating a wood receiving yard for the purpose of collection and processing biomass fuel to be utilized at a wood fired power plant.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Operate the wood receiving yard store front and provide customer service.
- Inspect, receive, reject, unload, sort out undesirable material, and stage incoming wood in piles for processing.
- Track yard activity through writing of tickets, paperwork, and computer entries.
- Handle cash, credit card, and charge account, payments from customers.
- Operate heavy equipment including wheel loaders and excavators for the purpose of staging wood into piles.
- Maintain the appearance of the receiving yard.
- Maintain a clean and safe work area including mobile office, storage areas, and heavy equipment.
- Perform inspection and maintenance activities on heavy equipment in accordance with established schedules or as needed.
- Prepare and make regular deposits to the bank.
- Oversee yard activity including employees or contractors on site.
- Maintain a safe work environment through job planning and identification and correction of hazards, and adherence to safety and procedures.
- Occasional travel to work at other company sites required.
- Performs all other related duties as required.
Requirements / Qualifications
Physical Demands
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITION
Medium Work : Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and / or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and / or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Visual Acuity Requirements Including Depth Perception & Field of Vision Machine Operator (including inspection) - This is a minimum standard for use with those whose work deals largely with visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, operation of machines (including inspection), using measurement devices, assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
CONDITIONS THE WORKER WILL BE SUBJECT TO IN THIS POSITION
Why should you join our team?
At NorthStar Clean Energy, we offer more than just a place to work. We foster a culture that supports career development, growth, and stability, and we take pride in offering our co-workers excellent benefits and compensation packages. We are deliberately creating an inclusive culture that makes our diverse team of co-workers feel valued, supported, and empowered every day. We're a company made up of thousands of people, all with different stories to share and work to do, but we stand united in our company purpose : world class performance delivering hometown service.
What we offer :
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion :
We, at NorthStar Clean Energy, value Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. It is part of our DNA. We treat our employees with respect, we treat each other fairly and we value the opinions of others. We are passionate about building and nurturing an environment where everyone feels included. We don’t discriminate. We seek to learn about each other and better understand our unique differences. Our uniqueness makes us authentic. We create safe spaces where everyone can be who they truly are. We invite difficult conversations and uncomfortable topics. We value diverse perspectives; this is what makes us great together. We harbor an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. Our Employee Resource Groups, Women’s Advisory Panel (WAP), Women’s in Energy (WE), Minority Advisory Panel (MAP), Pride Alliance of Consumers Energy (PACE), GENERGY, capable, Interfaith and Veterans Advisory Panel (VAP) are key enablers to living the values of our company culture : Caring, Empowered, Deliberate, Agility, and Ownership.
All qualified applicants will not be discriminated against and will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability, race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
