Job description

The Utility Operator is engaged in the distillation, fermentation, and evaporation processes to produce ethanol from beverages and waste streams delivered to the plant. Hours 7pm-7am on a rotating 3-2-2 schedule. Pay is $18-22/hr Must be willing to train on days.

Job Duties:

• Recording readings on an hourly basis
• Monitoring and/or adjusting liquid and steam levels for efficient operation.
• Monitoring the PH of the wastewater discharge, testing product samples using simple lab procedures, recording results of tests.
• Monitor alcohol processes using computer programming and make critical process decisions independently and safely to maintain process flows.
• Technical aptitude to learn a complex chemical process and maintain it over time.
• Maintaining a clean and hazard-free work environment.
• Safely starting, monitoring, and shutting down the Evaporation System.
• Attendance at safety meetings.
• Submitting work orders on equipment and facilities requiring maintenance.
• Ability to connect/disconnect heavy industrial hoses for load-in/load-out purposes.
• Ability to climb stairs and ladders to observe and test products.
• Unloading/loading of tanker trucks, railcars, syrup trucks, totes, barrels, and kegs.
• Carry and distribute bags of chemicals weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Use tools, arms, and hands to open and close heavy duty vessels and valves to route products thru the distillation process stations.