Utility Operator

**Job Description**:
**Position**: Utility Operator/Product Loader

**Location**: Brandon, Manitoba

**Schedule**:40 hrs work week with occassional overtime

**Reports to**: Plant Manager

**Compensation**: $34.32/Hr + benefits

Chemtrade is committed to delivering innovative solutions that address the complex challenges faced by our customers. As a responsible corporate citizen, we prioritize safety, sustainability, and environmental stewardship in all aspects of our operations. Our talented and diverse workforce is at the heart of our success, as we recognize that their knowledge, skills, and dedication drive our ability to deliver exceptional products and services. At Chemtrade, we believe in creating an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and talents. By putting people at the center of our operations, we build strong connections, nurture innovation, and create a fulfilling work experience for all.

**About This Role and About You**

This job is diverse in the mechanical ability to perform general plant operator duties. Work includes tank truck and railcar vessel opening, loading, and unloading, operation of pumps, piping, valves and general plant upkeep and maintenance. This job requires climbing stairs and ladders and lifting (within OSHA guidelines). This job consists of outside elements where radiant heat or cold is normal work environment, and rotating shifts.

**Qualifications**

**Knowledge**
- High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- 0+ years of experience - This is an entry level role that will progress further into the operations group based on union seniority.
- Power Engineering certification preferred.

**Competencies**
- Relevant experience in a plant environment performing similar duties is preferred.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, manufacturer’s literature, diagrams or schematics.

**Responsibilities**
- Perform typical operations requirements such as truck loading and unloading, railcar loading and unloading, connecting/disconnecting hoses, operating valves, troubleshooting equipment/operational problems and operating plant equipment as needed.
- Replacement of nuts and bolts in pipe flanges ranging in size from 1” - 48” diameter flanges.
- Operation of the following mobile equipment: Front end loader, Track mobile, Forklifts, and other mobile equipment.
- Cleaning, sweeping, tool room and warehouse inventory, trash removal, digging, weed spraying, shoveling, fire watch and confined space hole attendance/entrant, other duties assigned by Supervisor.
- Physical capability of performing tasks in 100-degree ambient temperatures while wearing Protective Personal
- Protection such as Acid Resistant approved PVC rain suit (topcoat, bottom pants, rubber boots, gloves, and face shield) and Respirators.
- Must be able to work scheduled rotating 12 hr. shifts with intermittent 14 - 16-hour days for emergency operations/repairs.
- Maintain weekly timesheets in accurate format.
- Follow all plant Rules & Regulations including lack of tardiness and absenteeism.
- Be able to comply with all plant safety rules such as: perform tasks utilizing all PPE; maintain and document PPE condition.
- Following all plant safety guidelines such as: confined space; high work; management of change; hot work; and operating procedures.

**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:

- Employee must have physical strength, hand-eye coordination and endurance.
- Employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Employee is required to climb multi-level stairs/ladders to perform his duties.
- Employees will be required to wear site designated PPE at all times which includes but not limited to, hard hats, steel toe cap boots, safety specs, safety shields, coveralls, PVC acid resistant suits, hearing protection and an assortment of hand protection.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job may include close vision.
- Must be physically capable of occasionally spending long hours sitting in an office environment.
- Must be “fit for all the above duties”.

**Work Environment**

Must be able to perform under the following conditions:

- Access work in awkward or confining workspaces.
- Work in elevated places.
- Work in outdoor environment.
- Work in noisy environment.
- Work in areas that are dusty and have some odor from chemicals and etc.
- Safety is a job requirement.
- Able to work in Adverse Weather Conditions.

**What Chemtrade Offers You**
- Embracing Diversity, Maximizing Results_

At Chemtrade we are committed to cultivating a work environment that embraces and values the unique qualities of every employee. We believe in harnessing the ric