Job: Wood Product Technician
Job Description
Job Type: Hourly
Wage: $15-$18/hr.
Location: Westcliffe, CO.
Job Description
This job includes all aspects of processing salvaged and harvested forestry material into various products at the Greenleaf sawmill (headquarters of the business), including carpentry shop and outdoor building construction. Our products include firewood, lumber, beams, poles, sheds, cabins, wood furniture, and other wood assemblies.
In all aspects, safety is “job one”, and Greenleaf has an active and very detailed safety program that all workers must follow. This job includes a mix of heavy manual labor, including lifting 50 to 75 pounds repetitively, as well as equipment operations and maintenance. Equipment includes chainsaw, hand tools, front-end loader, dozer, small pickups to ½ ton trucks, trailers, wood splitter, sawmill chop-saw and lumber stacking racks, carpentry tools and wood shop tools. Main head-saw sharpener and mill sawyer require extensive work/ training skills and experience on the job, and require demonstrated interest and proficiency in milling support tasks.
Maintenance equipment includes common mechanic’s shop tools and supplies. Equipment operators are responsible for learning and maintaining needed supplies, sharpening chainsaws and maintaining their other assigned equipment (such as tractors, trucks, loader, wood splitter, etc.) on a regular basis, and for doing common maintenance and simple to medium complexity repairs to it. Larger and most complicated repairs, such as engine/transmission overhauls, are done in the mechanic’s shop by the company’s most experienced mechanic(s), or contracted out.
Each employee is trained and checked out over time in simple to more complex operations and procedures, depending on demonstrated and/or documented skills and their particular interests and the company needs. All employees’ start with basic operations and with gradual advancement, and this may lead to inclusion of job and production management, crew supervision, and documentation paperwork. In some cases, customer relations and communications are involved and the employee must represent the company well. The employee is responsible as a crewmember for good teamwork, sharing workloads, attention to detail, and performing the operations in a quality and professional manner.
Compensation ($15-$18/hr) is relative to initial skills and experience, demonstrated skills over time, attendance, interest in the job, continuous learning and improvement, leadership, and contribution to overall production and quality, as well as overall crew improvement. Work may vary by season, and includes the following and other tasks (as assigned):
a. Summer/Fall: Processing firewood at the sawmill- bucking logs, splitting rounds, loading split and round wood by hand and by front-end loader, and possible delivery by trailer or truck loads or on a 2-½ ton dump truck to customers. Also involved, on an as-needed basis, are machine edging boards, pole peeling (hand and machine), pole-peeler hand off-bearing of poles, sawmill hand off-bearing of lumber, piling and loading of logs and limbs, stacking lumber, yard and building cleanup and maintenance, log/wood/limb hauling on trucks, mechanic’s helper work, and carpentry shop and outdoor building construction helper. May work in other carpentry/building construction and other tasks as needed.
b. Winter: Mainly the continuation of firewood, lumber and pole processing. Other work described in “a.” above will be done as needed.
c. Spring/Early Summer – Mainly the continuation of firewood, lumber and pole processing. Other work described in “a” above will be done as needed. Also, tree nursery work including transplanting and planting both by hand shovel /tools and machine.
d. All seasons: Cross training and work in all company operations is required to perform varied workflow. As necessary, work may include forestry operations at client properties.
e. In all seasons, outdoor work is the norm and each crew member is responsible for their own personal clothing, boots, water, food, and other gear to be comfortable on the job.
**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.