Power Plant Fuel Site Equipment Operator

The role

The person uses mobile equipment to excavate, farm and handle bituminous waste coal fines and coarse waste coal. They reclaim rejected material, utilize ash to restore the site, neutralize rejected materials, and undertake soil amendment.

What you will do

• Excavates waste coal and farms waste coal fines.
• Loads and unloads trucks.
• Excavates and stores clay for final cover and places, compacts and grades ash.
• Mixes soil for final cover and plants grasses to establish vegetative cover.
• Services mobile equipment and performs mechanical maintenance work as required.
• Assists in site maintenance including fixing potholes, grading, crowning, clearing culverts, and basic site housekeeping.
• Ensures equipment and site conditions meet MSHA safety and health standards and follows Company safety rules.
• Complies with state, federal and local environmental laws by assisting in controlling dust, erosion, sedimentation, and water treatment.
• Assists in controlling quality of fuel through waste coal sampling, top sizing and tramp materials.
• Safely operates front-end loader, bulldozer, track excavator, water trucks, dump trucks, pumps, and other site supporting equipment.

Required qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Five to 10 years' experience in surface mining or surface reclamation
• Thorough understanding of heavy equipment operation and mine site reclamation activities
• Ability to monitor and record fuel site activities
• Ability to recognize problems and communicate them to appropriate management

About the company

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