Clean Up (Sawmill) - Entry Level

Overview

General Labor Clean Up Crew People Wanted for Night Shifts!!  (Entry Level)

Starting Hourly Pay Rate: $22.87

Humboldt Sawmill Company is looking for Clean-Up worker to join our Team in Scotia, CA . This position includes full benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K matching and life insurance.

The Mendocino Companies (Mendocino Forest Products Company, Mendocino Redwood Company, Humboldt Redwood Company, Humboldt Sawmill Company, and Allweather Wood) own nearly 450,000 acres of Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC® C031337) certificated redwood and Douglas-fir timberland, constitute the largest waterborne wood treater in the Western USA, and is the largest producer of redwood lumber in the world. Collectively providing 950 employees and their families with excellent wages and benefits in communities throughout the Western USA. Additionally, the Mendocino Companies own and operate a 25-megaWatt biomass cogeneration power plant and wood pellet plant.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Responsibilities

Keeps production areas clean and safe and assists in other areas of sawmill in a safe and productive manner.

• Keeps designated areas, as assigned by supervisor, clean and clear of sawdust, wood chips, bark, strips and other foreign objects;
• Operates chain saw to cut up scrap lumber and broken logs;
• Uses hand tools to move sawdust, chips and bark into conveyors, bins and scoop on tractor;
• Operates Bobcat and forklift to transport debris to conveyors or disposal site;
• May pull strips off of transfer chains into conveyors to chippers;
• May keep lumber straight on transfer chains to trimmer;
• Empties all garbage cans in and around sawmill;
• Provides assistance where needed.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED);
• 1 months related experience and/or training.
• Preferred forklift license or ability to train to obtain license
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to read and understand instructions and memos and write simple sentences.

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and communicate.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance.
• The employee is occasionally required to smell.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close, distance, color, peripheral and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, and vibration.
• The employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; and risk of electrical shock. 
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• This position requires eye protection, hearing protection, leather or rubber gloves, safety shoes, and hard hat. 

Equal Opportunity Employer, Valuing Diversity of our Workforce and Offering a Drug Free Workplace

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