Producers Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED degree and/or equivalent training required.
• Maintenance experience with a mechanical aptitude is required.
• Ability to work in tight and confined spaces, walk, climb, bend, kneel, lift, grip, grasp, push, and pull various tools and equipment.
• Ability to frequently lift, push, pull up to 50 pounds and occasionally more.
• Ability to ascend/descend ladders.
• Computer literate with proven ability in the use of spreadsheets, database, and word processing software applications within a Windows-based operating environment.
• Ability to read and comprehend written and oral operational and safety instructions and related rules, policies, and memo, and communicate clearly with coworkers and supervisors.
• Ability to make decisions and work independently; be detail-oriented with excellent communications skills, both verbal and written.
• Vision that permits close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• When grading grain, the ability to identify and distinguish colors is also important.
• Ability to detect odors and the ability to understand and discern safety warning systems.
• This is a physical job that includes both indoor and outdoor work in all types of weather and temperature environments.
• The job may include working in and around grain dust.
• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas in English by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to customers, public, and convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with computer programs such as the AS400, Agris, and MS suite of products is preferred.
• Proven interpersonal skills; must support a team-oriented approach within the immediate facility as well as for United Grain Corporation.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with Producers on a daily basis.
• May be required to ride a belt lift and occasionally work at significant heights with requisite balance and equilibrium.

Responsibilities

• Perform job tasks in a safe manner in compliance with UGC safety programs and procedures.
• Take responsibility for safe work behavior.
• Maintain work areas and facilities properly.
• Provide courteous and responsive customer service.
• Perform or assist in routine maintenance and repairs.
• Assist in the unloading or loading of grain commodities by truck, rail and barge.
• Weigh or measure materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or read scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, in order to verify specified tonnages and prevent overloads.
• Maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
• Observe conveyor operations and monitor lights, dials, and gauges, in order to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Inform supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed.