Pelletizer Technician

Looking to gain new skills for a new Career? Are you mechanically inclined and/or have experience operating equipment?

**Why CRP? What Do We Offer?**
- Competitive wage and yearly increases
- RRSP Matching program
- Dental and Medical Benefits Package after 3-month probation period
- Opportunities for overtime hours with a flexible schedule
- Clean and safe working environment
- Team atmosphere where input and feedback are encouraged
- Opportunities for career development and growth in skilled or leadership positions.

**Position Summary**:
To ensure the continuous operation of the pelletizer, in a safe manner, while adhering to quality standards. This position requires a very high attention to detail, highly focused and excellent skills in maintaining a continuous process.

**Responsibilities**
- Load gaylords, plastic bins of offcuts, super sacks of bottle caps or bales of jugs/purge into the palletizer
- Record the pounds for each bin or sacks on spread sheet provided
- Once done a colour or material run, record total pounds in SFM
- Stage super sacks in front of wall
- Remove empty gaylord or bins and stage in holding area
- Run the Pelletizer and perform any required quality inspections
- Support the segregating and staging of offcuts and incoming raw materials that will be pelletized
- Ensure pelletized material is blown into the correct storage silos by adhering to SWI’s
- Follow escalation process for deviations and non-conformances
- Monitor and stage blender systems, ingredients and assist in changeovers as available
- Vacuum pellets into mixing silos
- Clean area by sweeping excess pellets spillage
- Maintain filters and loaders at each machine
- Clean the vacuum system
- Clean restrictor plates
- Other duties as assigned

**Education/Experience/Skills Required**
- Extensive knowledge of the extrusion department and process
- Forklift experience
- Above average communication and leadership skills
- Very high attention to detail
- Responsiblity for exceptional quality
- Reading text, document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- working with others
- problem-solving
- decision making
- critical thinking
- job task planning and organizing,
- significant use of memory
- finding information
- computer use
- continuous learning

**Work Environment and Physical Demands**

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear.
- Repetitive tasks
- handling heavy loads (60lbs)
- physically demanding
- manual dexterity
- attention to detail
- hand-eye coordination
- combination of pushing, pulling, bending, lifting, twisting
- The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms.
- The employee is occasionally required to walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 35 pounds and occasionally may maneuver up to 60 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job may include but are not limited to close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
- Must be able to stand continuously for the duration of the scheduled shift.
- The work environment and physical demands detailed above are representative of those encountered while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job._

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time as needed.

INDHP

**Salary**: From $23.80 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Life insurance
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Ontario, CA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Application Question(s):

- Are you authorized to work in Canada?

Work Location: In person