Equipment Operator

About the Role

DIS-TRAN Steel, located in Pineville, LA, is looking for experienced Equipment Operators to join our team. Our people – not our machinery - are our biggest assets. DIS-TRAN Steel’s leadership team lives by our company values, modeling our culture of respect and integrity each day. We're a team that likes to have fun, but we also know how to get stuff done.

Responsibilities

• Learns and follows safety regulations
• Takes actions to avoid potential hazards or obstructions, such as other equipment, other workers, or falling objects
• Monitors operations to ensure that health and safety standards are met
• Adjusts handwheels and depresses pedals to control attachments
• Starts engines, moves throttles, switches, or levers, or depresses pedals to operate machines
• Coordinates machine actions with other activities, positioning or moving loads in response to hand or audio signals from team members
• Loads and moves equipment, or other materials, using fork trucks or related equipment
• Checks fuel supplies at sites to ensure adequate availability
• Performs operator maintenance on fork trucks
• Inspects equipment before use
• Locates material using project numbers and piecemarks

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent preferred
• Ability to read and interpret typed reports and schedules required
• Certifications or prior experience using moving machinery, such as forklifts, preferred
• Working knowledge of material handling, banding, palletizing, and loading on to truck preferred
• Ability to perform basic operator maintenance on fork trucks required
• Must complete on-site training and demonstrate safe operation of machinery
• Clear Motor Vehicle Report

Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Business Insight
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• Instills Trust
• Manages Ambiguity