Job Description
The Loader Operator is responsible for efficiently and safely operating a loader with bucket capacities ranging from 4 to 12 cu yards to manage materials within a sales yard or stockpile area. This role involves loading, unloading, and organizing materials such as aggregates, recycling and other construction materials. The operator ensures that materials are properly stored, ready for sale or distribution, and maintains a neat and organized yard environment.
Essential Functions
• Contributes to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Requires minimal supervision after the plan for the day has been communicated and can adapt to changing conditions associated with the pit floor and working face.
• May assist in training and mentoring less experienced operators. Contributes to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Operate a front-end loader to load trucks, feed processing plants, and move materials within the stockpile area.
• Maintain precise control of the loader, ensuring safe and efficient operation in a potentially high traffic area.
• Perform routine maintenance checks on the loader, identifying and addressing any issues.
• Work collaboratively with plant operators, truck drivers, and other team members to ensure efficient production and material flow.
• Load trucks accurately and efficiently, ensuring proper weight distribution and minimizing spillage.
Critical Competencies
• Equipment Operation: Proficiency in operating large loaders, including understanding the controls, gauges, and indicators. Ability to manipulate the loader accurately and smoothly for various tasks, such as loading, dumping, and transporting materials. Skill in maneuvering the loader accurately and smoothly for various tasks, such as loading, dumping, and transporting materials. Skill in handling attachments and understanding their applications. Strong sense of spatial awareness to maneuver the loader safely in tight spaces, around obstacles and in congested work areas.
• Safety Awareness: Thorough understanding of safety protocols and regulations related to heavy equipment operation. Ability to identify potential hazards and take preventive actions to ensure a safe working environment. Diligent use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and adherence to safety guidelines at all times.
• Technical Expertise: Solid mechanical understanding of loaders, including basic maintenance checks and troubleshooting minor issues. Ability to identify signs of equipment malfunction and report them to the maintenance team.
• Material Handling: Proficient in loading various materials onto trucks, conveyors and other transport vehicles while maintaining load stability and distribution. Ability to accurately estimate weights and volumes for optimal load and transportation efficiency.
• Problem Solving: Ability to assess loading challenges and adapt accordingly. Demonstrate decision making in response to unexpected situations or change in the work environment.
• Teamwork: Ability to effectively work as a part of a team, coordinating with other operators, dispatch/scale house and ground personnel.
Education
• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
Experience
• 3-5 years of experience operating a front-end loader in a stockpile environment.
• Demonstrates a high level of proficiency in loader operation and safety practices.
• Possesses a strong understanding of stockpile management, material properties, and quality control procedures.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Operates the loader with a high degree of skill and efficiency in a high-traffic area.
• Consistently meets or exceeds production targets while maintaining stockpile quality.
• Proactively identifies and resolves operational challenges.
• May assist in training and mentoring less experienced operators.
• Ability to work in varying weather conditions.
• Strong understanding of safety protocols and MSHA regulations.
Other Requirements
• Must have the ability to climb ladders while maintaining three points of contact.
• Physical ability to climb ladders, sit for extended periods, and operate controls with precision.
• Adhere to all safety regulations and protocols, including wearing appropriate PPE.
• Maintain a high level of situational awareness in a dynamic work environment with truck traffic and other mobile equipment.
• Report any safety concerns, incidents, or equipment malfunctions promptly.
• Understand and follow environmental regulations related to dust control, material handling, and stockpile management.
• Perform routine maintenance checks on the loader, identifying and addressing any issues.
• Collaborate with maintenance teams for repairs and preventive maintenance.
• Maintain accurate records of materials loaded and moved.
• Complete log sheets, work orders, and other documentation as required.
• Other duties as assigned.
Salary. The salary is prescribed by the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Candidates will be placed according to union contract salary scale at $51.56 per hour.
· Full benefits package including health insurance, a pension plan, paid vacation.
· This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
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Vulcan Materials Company is an equal opportunity employer.
Work for Warriors is a no-cost employment program of the California Military Department for Service Members, Veterans, and military family members. The Veteran Staffing Consultant for Vulcan Materials Company is Chuck Callahan.
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Job Reference
Our business is built on essentials. What we mine and sell—aggregates—are indispensable to infrastructure and growth. How we run our company also comes down to essentials. We run our business with great discipline and integrity. We maintain a great place to work and grow. We take care of the land through the entire cycle of productive use from mining to restoration and re-use. We serve our customers and communities well. Always with the long view in mind. This is how we sustain success.
WE ARE VULCAN. AND WE DELIVER VALUE.
Our coast-to-coast footprint and strategic distribution network align with and serve the nation's growth centers.
Vulcan Materials Company is the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates—primarily crushed stone, sand and gravel—and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. Our coast-to-coast footprint and strategic distribution network align with and serve the nation’s growth centers. We are headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
Vulcan has over 400* active aggregates facilities, and 70 asphalt facilities and 240 concrete facilities, which also consume aggregates. All are located in the U.S. except for our two large quarries and marine terminals on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The products from this facility are primarily exported by ship to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where quality stone cannot be mined locally.
What we produce is used in nearly all forms of construction. In particular, large quantities of aggregates are used to build and repair valuable infrastructure such as roads, bridges, waterworks and ports, and to construct buildings both residential and nonresidential, such as manufacturing facilities, office buildings, schools, hospitals and churches.