3rd Shift General Labor

PDM•Des Moines, IA

18h•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for cleaning the plant and plant equipment. The role requires adherence to PDM's Core Values, including Relationship Building, Accountability, Urgency, Innovation, and Creating Return on Efforts. The pillars of this role are Safety, Quality, Happiness, and Performance. The General Laborer will assist in transforming the shop floor culture towards Continuous Improvement and Accountability, demonstrating reliability through exceptional attendance. Specific duties include cleaning various plant components, assisting with form work breakdown, testing concrete strength, cutting product, processing strand, maintaining cleanliness with a vacuum system, emptying trash, monitoring equipment like bed temperatures and lighting, managing the chuck process, and performing other tasks as assigned by management. Cold weather activities involve managing bed temperatures, snow removal, and applying ice melt. The role also requires adherence to the Silica program and general plant safety policies, including specific safety regulations around operating folding doors and cutting strand loose.

Requirements

Operate skid loader, loader, yard truck, torch, quickie saw, grinders
Applicants must be able to stand on feet for extended period of time, lift, push and pull up to 75 lbs., crawl on hands and knees, climb a ladder, and be able to work long hours.
This position works outdoors year-round and therefore subject to all weather conditions sometimes to include extreme cold and heat.

Responsibilities

Learn & understand company safety policies and procedures and promote compliance
Focus on increasing productivity and lowering material cost while maintaining expected levels of quality & communication with supervisors.
Assist in the transformation of the shop floor culture to one of Continuous Improvement and Accountability.
Demonstrate reliability through exceptional attendance
Clean magnets, boots, boot plates, form work
Strip/breakdown specific form work after cure time
Break concrete cylinders to verify product strength
Cut product loose after strength has been verified
Process Strand
Record and report as required
Use/maintain vacuum system to clean required locations though out the entire plant
Empty all plant trash into appropriate bins
Monitor bed temperatures, tarps, lighting, boiler
Manage chuck process (pull from production, clean, inspect, stage new for production)
Other tasks developed by management
Cold weather activities include managing bed temps, snow removal, applying ice melt, spreading sand
Follow Silica program
General plant safety policies and procedures
Adhere to safety regulations around operating folding doors, cutting strand loose