3rd Shift General Labor

PDM Precast•Des Moines, IA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The General Labor position is responsible for cleaning the plant and plant equipment and supporting production activities. The employee is expected to follow company safety policies and procedures, promote compliance, and uphold PDM’s Core Values: Relationship Building, Accountability, Urgency, Innovation, and Create Return on Efforts. The position also supports the company’s pillars of Safety, Quality, Happiness, and Performance. This role focuses on improving productivity and reducing material costs while maintaining expected quality and communicating with supervisors. It contributes to a shop-floor culture of continuous improvement and accountability and requires exceptional attendance. Work is performed outdoors year-round and is subject to all weather conditions, including extreme cold and heat.

Requirements

Ability to operate a skid loader, loader, yard truck, torch, quickie saw, and grinders.
Ability to stand for extended periods.
Ability to lift, push, and pull up to 75 pounds.
Ability to crawl on hands and knees and climb a ladder.
Ability to work long hours.
Ability to work outdoors year-round in all weather conditions, including extreme cold and heat.

Responsibilities

Learn and understand company safety policies and procedures, and promote compliance.
Focus on increasing productivity and lowering material costs while maintaining expected quality and communicating with supervisors.
Assist in developing a shop-floor culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
Demonstrate reliability through exceptional attendance.
Clean magnets, boots, boot plates, and formwork.
Strip and break down specific formwork 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 and maintain the vacuum system to clean required locations throughout the plant.
Empty plant trash into appropriate bins.
Monitor bed temperatures, tarps, lighting, and boiler.
Manage the chuck process by pulling chucks from production, cleaning and inspecting them, and staging new ones for production.
Perform other tasks developed by management.
Manage bed temperatures, remove snow, apply ice melt, and spread sand during cold-weather activities.
Follow the Silica program and general plant safety policies and procedures.
Follow safety regulations when operating folding doors and cutting strand loose.