Pc Plant Operator Technician - Rendering (Nights)

Job Description
Pay Range:
$24.15 per hour.
(Additional $1.00 per hour for hours worked between 7:
00pm and 11:
59pm. Additional $2.00 per hour for hours worked between 12:
00am-4:
59am)
Operate and monitor the various machines which convert meat and feathers into protein meal.
Control Room Operator:
Maintain cook logs for meat and feather cooking during the shift. Monitor the progress of each cook. Responsible for contacting maintenance or electrician when mechanical problems occur. Check all timers on feather and meat cooker.
Pollution Operator:
Monitor solution tanks, cross flow scrubber. Check chemical concentration to make sure it is within standards. Maintain logs. Load bulk trucks as needed.
Meat Operator:
Monitor product flow from perc-pans to surge hopper through expellers.
Fat Room Operator:
Monitor raw product bins at all time. Monitor fat tank levels, when levels get to ¾ tank full, operator is to filter dirty fat, run filter cake out and repeat this procedure throughout the day as many times as necessary.
Grinding Room Operator:
Monitor product flow through grinding room. Check shaker screens and disintegrator screens making sure there are no holes on the screens. Dump barrels, gondolas etc. Monitor levels on outside storage bins. Load raw feathers into feather table when necessary.
Feather Operator:
Monitor the flow of raw feather into feather cooker. Clear drops on feather cooker. Monitor pressure inside feather cooker and run moisture checks every hour so that moisture does not exceed 6%.
Complete required food safety and quality documentation as needed.
Other duties as assigned, to include:
general cleaning, assisting other crews as needed, and reporting mechanical problems to appropriate personnel.