Job: Scale Operator

Job Description

Job Type: Full time, Hourly

Wage: $18.79-$26.31/hr. 

Location: Canon City, CO.

Job Description:

Why work for us?

Driven by our purpose: Building progress for people and the planet. We are transforming to become the leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions. Holcim US offers an unparalleled range of innovative cement, aggregates, asphalt, concrete products and construction services that have been the foundation for infrastructure projects across the globe. To move the industry forward to a greener future we need people who are passionate about sustainability, are driven to shape and influence perception, and keen to build, grow and thrive in our high-performance culture.

Are you ready to build progress with us?

Overview

Provides timely and accurate tickets to customers ensuring the smooth flow of traffic across the scale. Assists in the coordination of truck dispatch orders to ensure maximum efficiency of trucking.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to safety policies in all work environments and areas;
• Practice and promote safety in such a way as including but not limited to; assessing risks before starting tasks, only performing authorized activities, utilizing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE);
• Provides excellent customer support to internal and external customers;
• Ensure that all COD order money is collected and properly documented.
• Prepare deposit bags in accordance with company policies;
• Ensures that tickets are verified for numbers, dated and time accuracy and ensure that customer trucks (internal and external customers) leave the yard properly loaded;
• Ensures that safety, compliance, environmental, and DOT requirements are followed at ALL times;
• Coordinates truck dispatch to jobs with orders received from Dispatch Office, and operates computer to produce appropriate customer tickets.
• Verifies tickets for numbers, date, and time accuracy.
• Collects COD money and properly records it;
• Sends transaction register and ticket copies to main office on daily basis.
• Transfers all files and tickets transfer files at least twice daily.
• Answers phones and takes accurate messages for others in their absence;
• Tares trucks (empty weight) on weekly basis and records as appropriate as well as maintains accurate records of tons sold by product;
• Maintains product knowledge necessary to answer customer questions.
• Performs housekeeping duties to ensure that scale house is clean and orderly.
• Assists Plant employees as required.
• Performs other administrative duties as assigned;
• Other duties as assigned.

Relationship with other jobs:

This position will work with Operators and management. They will communicate and work together to ensure the customer’s needs are met in a safety and constructive manner.

Qualifications

Required Education:

• High school diploma or GED;
• Must read, write, and speak English;
• Ability to do basic math;
• Add and subtract two (2) digit numbers;
• Multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s;
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurements, volume, and distance.

Experience:

• Strong work standards and good attendance record;
• Basic computer skills; Microsoft Office;

Additional Strengths Preferred of Strongest Candidates:

• Weigh Master License;
• Experience with customer service and equipment operation and maintenance.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear. The employee will frequently be required to walk on rocky, irregular surfaces that may be muddy and in reduced lighting conditions. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must frequently shovel for 3 minutes with an 8 lb. shovel, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places: fumes or airborne particles, confined space, outside weather conditions, low lighting, artificial lighting, and explosives. The employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, proximity to electrical equipment, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and occasionally loud.

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled

**Disclaimer: The duties and responsibilities described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee, time to time; the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Click “View Application” below for more detail on this specific job.