Excavator Operator at The Doe Run Company in Boss, Missouri

Job Description:

We take pride in supplying the essential minerals that keep our country safe, strong, and moving forward!

$27.08/hour

5% targeted monthly bonus.

Insurance benefits start day 1.

80 hours vacation after 90 days.

On-the-job training.

Career growth opportunities.

The Doe Run Company is seeking an Excavator Operator to operate an excavator and front-end loader in order to move, resize, and remove materials throughout the plant. The dayshift position will be located at our Buick Resource Recycling Division in Boss. MO.

Education & Experience: 

• Three to five years of operations experience.


• High school diploma or equivalent, preferred.


• Successfully obtain mobile equipment certification upon employment.


• Complete environmental and safety training upon employment. 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Skilled ability to operate front end loader, track hoe and haul truck.


• Ability to use a hydraulic hammer.


• Experience performing minor maintenance tasks on machines and tools.


• Ability to identify feeds and types of slag.


• Ability to identify proper storage locations.

Responsibilities:

• Safely operate excavator and front-end loader.


• Remove reverb slag from reverb slag bunker and dig out furnace.


• Dip quench tank and clean trash kettles.


• Clean and maintain areas such as the blast furnace crane aisle, slag containment, sedimentation containment, truck wash containment, and other areas as needed.


• Fill in for other mobile equipment positions.


• Perform minor maintenance on equipment.


• Identify different types of feed and slag material in order to ensure proper storage and processing.


• Perform other duties as assigned.

Work Environment Physical & Lifting:

• Regularly required to wear personal protective equipment, including, but not limited to, respirator, hearing protection and eyewear and exposed to vibration and extreme heat; occasionally exposed to wet, humid conditions as well as outdoor weather conditions. Exposed to loud noise levels.


• Regularly requires grasping and repetitive movement; frequently requires sitting, feeling attributes of objects, pushing, and driving; occasionally requires hearing, reaching with hands/arms, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling. Requires clarity of vision, three-dimensional vision, the ability to identify and distinguish colors, the ability to judge distance and spatial relationships, and precise hand-eye coordination.


• Frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds, occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.

Based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, The Doe Run Company is a privately held natural resources company and a global provider of lead, copper, and zinc concentrates. Dedicated to environmentally responsible mineral and metal production, Doe Run operates the Resource Recycling facility, one of the world’s largest, single-site lead recycling centers, located in Boss, Missouri. The company also owns six operating mines in one of the world’s largest lead mining districts, also in Missouri: Brushy Creek, Buick, Casteel, Fletcher/West Fork, Mine 29/Viburnum and Sweetwater. The Doe Run Company and its subsidiaries deliver products and services necessary to provide power, protection, and convenience. Doe Run has operations in Missouri, Washington, and Arizona. For more information, visit www.doerun.com.

Doe Run is an equal opportunity employer, including disability and veterans.

Experience

Required

• 3 - 5 years: Operations experience

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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