Fuel and Ash Handler

WIN Waste Innovations•Falls Township, PA

About The Position

WIN Waste Innovations is seeking a Fuel and Ash Handler I to monitor and operate auxiliary equipment in support of safe, efficient, and continuous plant operations. The position performs preventative maintenance and minor repairs on ash handling, tipping floor, and other assigned auxiliary systems, and operates ash handling equipment and loads metals as assigned. The role involves operating mobile equipment and supporting refuse crane and front-end loader operations as required. The employee must follow company environmental, health, and safety requirements; identify and report hazards; and maintain effective working relationships with customers, vendors, coworkers, and management. Overtime and rotating shifts may be required. Work takes place in a plant environment with noise and may involve adverse conditions requiring personal protective equipment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Requirements

High school diploma, GED, or equivalent work experience.
Mechanical abilities sufficient to perform equipment maintenance, minor repairs, and general preventative maintenance.
Ability to work overtime and/or rotating shifts as required.
Ability to meet the listed physical demands of the job.
Ability to work in a noisy plant environment and use required personal protective equipment under adverse conditions.

Responsibilities

Operate mobile equipment, including industrial forklifts, manlifts, skid steer-type loaders, and other mobile equipment.
Operate and complete inspections on the front-end loader on the tipping floor and in ash house areas.
Be qualified to operate the refuse crane and front-end loader as required for support and employee relief.
Perform routine mechanical tasks, including opening vessels and equipment access doors, placing and removing furnace access equipment, providing overhead protection and staging, operating power tools, and making minor repairs to plant equipment and structures.
Follow company environmental compliance, health and safety requirements, policies, procedures, and rules.
Use 15,000 psi water blaster systems for cleaning, drain clearing, and other assigned activities after competency training.
Use mobile water pumps, including diesel-operated, gasoline-powered, pneumatic, and hydraulic pumps, for MSW ash dewatering and compliant ash handling.
Follow standard safety procedures; correct safety and environmental hazards and immediately report them to supervision.
Work overtime and/or rotating shifts as required.
Shovel loose materials such as sand, gravel, metals, plastics, or chemicals into machine hoppers or vehicles and containers.
Maintain a positive work environment through appropriate conduct and communication with customers, clients, vendors, coworkers, and management.
Meet the physical demands of the role, including lifting up to 50 pounds, moving throughout plant areas, operating fire hoses and extinguishing equipment, and accessing confined spaces and pressure vessels.