Production Equipment Operator

Triple-S Steel•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

Triple-S Steel is seeking a motivated material handler to help execute safety standards, meet daily productivity goals and quality requirements, perform routine maintenance, and assist with operations. The role involves moving steel between storage and production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles using manual handling and equipment. The operator also helps prepare loads for transport, maintains assigned equipment, and communicates safety or equipment concerns to a supervisor. Work takes place indoors and outdoors in varied local weather conditions and around moving equipment and people.

Requirements

Ability to correctly read work orders or receive oral instructions to determine work assignments and material or equipment needs.
Ability to safely meet or exceed company-established minimum productivity levels.
Ability to plan and organize work independently, work without direct supervision, and work alone or as part of a team.
Ability to develop working knowledge of products and inventory-control techniques and procedures.
Ability to maintain communication with other departments regarding routing, safety, and customer relations.
Basic math skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
May be required to demonstrate strong customer-relations skills.
Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, and to talk and hear.
Specific vision abilities include close, distance, and color vision and the ability to adjust focus.
Ability to work around moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and possible electrical-shock risks in operations or laboratory areas.

Responsibilities

Follow safe work methods and immediately advise a supervisor of unsafe conditions.
Safely move steel to and from storage or production areas, loading docks, and delivery vehicles by hand or using forklifts, overhead cranes, or other equipment.
Attach slings, hooks, or other lifting devices, guide loads, and climb onto vehicles to tie down or release material being loaded.
Apply proper bundling techniques.
Configure loads based on planned routes, including multiple stops, and maximize trailer capacity without sacrificing safety.
Maintain and safely operate assigned tools and equipment, including tape measures, calipers, hammers, pallet trucks, banding machines, micrometers, beam hooks, plate-lifting clamps, forklifts, overhead cranes, and personal protective equipment.
Identify equipment safety issues and promptly report them.
Maintain spatial orientation and awareness of nearby people, equipment, and work activities.
Attend required company meetings.
Perform other duties as assigned.