Job Description:

POSITION SUMMARY

The Log Yard Utility is responsible for log yard clean up, operating the water truck, assisting with the operation of log yard equipment and maintenance of the log yard watering system.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Comprehend and perform all duties in accordance with rules, regulations and JSAs


• Follow safety protocols and report hazards to ensure a safe work environment


• Maintain and take responsibility for log deck watering systems


• Operate yard work truck, water truck, sweeper truck, and skid steer


• Operate grapple cranes, log stackers, and wheel loaders and fill in as relief operator as needed


• Sort logs by specie, size, and length at production levels


• Learn to load or unload trucks as needed


• Learn to deck or spread loads in an orderly fashion


• Maintain acceptable production levels


• Other duties as needed

• Specific job duties and shifts may vary per mill and based on machinery.

 

 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Must pass company specie test (90% or better) within probationary period


• High school diploma or GED


• Must be willing to work weekends and overtime


• Ability to pass a drug and alcohol test, post-offer pre-employment physical, and background check

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Valid driver’s license

 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Ability to sit and/or stand for shift, reach with hands and arms, stoop, squat, bend at the waist, kneel, walk varying distance, and climb stairs.

• Bend at waist – occasional


• Twist upper body – occasional


• Stoop - occasional


• Repetitive use of hands – frequent for clerical duties


• Stand/walk – occasional


• Sit – frequent


• Vision – near and far correctable; depth perception


• Hearing – preferred for awareness of surrounding machinery, mobile equipment, emergencies

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Must be able to tolerate all weather elements, loud conditions, airborne particles (sawdust).

 

Idaho Forest Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with ADA regulations as applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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