Gin Operators
Employer
25165 Buckhorn Drive
Windsor, VA 23487
United States
Job description
Direct and monitor the work activities of employees during ginning season for 12 hour shifts. Includes: providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. for tasks/responsibilities/rules, controlling the plant operations in a manner that achieves the quality/production/safety goals laid out by management. The position may confer with managers to make operational decisions. The position communicates with supervisors, peers, or subordinates by providing information to those individuals based on work activities. The position may adjust, repair, and service gin machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. This position requires an individual to keep up-to-date technically by applying new knowledge to the job including: entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form through compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data and the position requires competence using a desktop computer, scanner, scale, logging data with pen and paper, and how to operate a PLC based cotton bale press in operation of 45+ bales per hour. Must know how to operate/troubleshoot/repair a PLC/touchscreen based gin plant including but not limited to: bale press, trash press, plastic press, gin stands, overhead, module feeder, cotton seed lines, cotton conveying lines, fans, augers, belt conveyors, loading and unloading a cotton seed house, know how to use/interpret Intilligin, basic electrical skills (how to use breakers/lock out tag out/etc), how to zero and operate bale and seed scales, how to operate skid steer/tractor. This position will train, teach, and instruct others by demonstrating from time to time the following tasks including but not limited to: operating and repairing equipment, cleaning blockages, cleaning lint filters, refilling supplies, sweeping floors, removing trash buildup, un-tarp modules, roll up and store module tarps, move bales from dock, operate mote press, secure wires to mote bale, operate cotton trash bale press, handle, and store cotton trash bales. The position will instruct subordinates on general housekeeping and cleaning of gin, repairing module truck chains or bearings, loading module tarps for delivery; will demonstrate how to unchoke equipment, use air to blow down and keep key pieces of equipment clean, operate skid steer and tractor, rake cotton off storage yard, roll tarps, fold and bale plastic, load and unload cotton seed, operate simple machinery with minimal controls, take and process cotton samples. The position may instruct peers by demonstrating proper methods of how to: Pick up cotton on module yard, load cotton module to feeder, how to effectively and efficiently pick up/put down modules and be able to load them onto the module feeder in the plant without problem and in a timely manner, and how to be sure the cotton storage yard that is clean and swept of any left over cotton. May demonstrate to workers how to handle cotton samples at press, ensure a smooth operation of the bale press, communicate on bale cuts, re-strap broken straps, ensure bag is properly on the bale, sealed, proper id tag applied, bale sample is properly taken and packaged, all necessary supplies kept above a minimum threshold, bale tags gathered/prepared/used in sequence, and all relevant data for that bale properly logged.
Special Requirements
Must able to lift & carry 50lbs to shoulder height repetitively through the workday. Workers may be required to take random, post accident, and/or upon suspicion drug test, post hire at no cost to worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. Must have legal authority to work in the US. Must have six months positive verifiable prior experience in job offered. No smoking or tobacco use of any kind will be permitted in the gin or warehouse. Employer reserves the right to discharge any employee found smoking or in possession of smoking materials including cigarettes, cigars, snuff, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, electronic cigarettes or any other smoking paraphernalia.