Enviva is looking for a Utility Operator that is responsible for all aspects of continuous operation of the plant including safety, equipment operation, monitoring, machine set up, and cleaning.

Responsibilities

• Operate mobile equipment to include skid steer, forklift, lull, and front-end loaders
• Inspect equipment daily.
• Perform basic maintenance to keep equipment in clean, good working order.
• Responsible for other duties assigned for the job.
• Support and carry out activities with routine inspections and maintenance of the dryer, furnace, emissions, and environmental equipment.
• Perform daily preventative maintenance equipment and standard work cleaning activities of emissions equipment strainers, tooling changes, housekeeping, and wash downs.

Qualifications

• Knowledgeable and experienced with heavy equipment operation
• A quick learner, ability to work with little to no supervision.
• Safely and efficiently performs all essential functions of the job
• Ability to understand and follow written and verbal job instructions.
• Ability to operate the machine in a timely and safe manner.

Preferred Qualifications - What Sets You Apart

• High school diploma or GED.
• Superior cognitive and systems knowledge to achieve production goals.
• Proficient in mathematics and measurement.
• Proficiency in maintaining the proper paperwork.

Working conditions

• Must be able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees 
• Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environment 
• Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, to include wearing safety equipment.
• Ability to work 12 hour rotating shift schedule.

Physical requirements

• Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day
• Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery
• Willing and able to pull and lift, up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.