Solutions Operator - Calca Solutions

About the Role

Shipping duties include filling containers, tank trailers, blending, transferring, and shipping products. The role involves both monitoring and operating chemical processes, ensuring safety, efficiency, and product quality in a chemical plant environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor recording instruments, flowmeters, and level indicators.
• Control or operate chemical processes or systems of machines.
• Record operating data such as test results and flow readings.
• Confer with technical and supervisory personnel to report or resolve conditions affecting safety, efficiency, and product quality.
• Draw samples of products to send to the laboratory for testing.
• Regulate or shut down equipment during emergency situations, as directed by supervisory personnel.
• Start and stop pumps.
• Perform environmental sampling and log sheet rounds.
• Line up valves from specified tanks to make transfers.
• Patrol work areas to ensure solutions in tanks are not in danger of overflowing.
• Inspect operating scrubber flows.
• Operate machinery that regulates the flow of materials and products.
• Turn valves to regulate flow of products to tanks, storage drums, tote bins, bulk trailers, cylinders, or isotainers.
• Transfer flammable and corrosive propellant from drums, cylinders, bulk storage tanks, and bulk trailers.
• Manage waste materials in accordance with BMP’s and environmental procedures.
• Calculate material requirements or yields according to formulas.
• Gauge tank levels.
• Maintain a written log of shift activities, as required.
• Load and unload tank trucks, tank cars, portable containers, etc.
• Climb ladders and stairways, as necessary.

Requirements

• 3+ years of operations-related experience in a plant/manufacturing environment OR an Associate’s degree in Process Technology.
• Process Technology Degree or Certificate is preferred.
• Willingness to work Monday – Friday 8-hour shifts or 12-hour shift rotation.

Qualifications

• Accountability – Ability to accept responsibility and account for actions.
• Accuracy – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Applied Learning – Ability to participate in learning activities effectively.
• Detail Oriented – Ability to pay attention to minute details.
• Organized – Ability to follow a systematic method of performing tasks.
• Reliability – The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Responsible – Ability to be held accountable for conduct.
• Safety Awareness – Ability to identify and correct conditions affecting safety.
• Self-Motivated – Ability to perform tasks using internal drive.
• Deductive Reasoning – Ability to apply logical thinking to a range of problems.
• Honesty/Integrity – Ability to be truthful and credible.

Skills

• Chemical Plant and Systems Operation.
• Basic computer skills.

Physical Demands

• Lift/Carry:
  • 10 lbs. or less – Frequently
  • 11-20 lbs. – Frequently
  • 21-50 lbs. – Occasionally
  • 51-100 lbs. – Not Applicable
  • Over 100 lbs. – Not Applicable
• Stand – Frequently
• Walk – Frequently
• Sit – Frequently
• Handling/Fingering – Frequently
• Reach Outward – Occasionally
• Reach Above Shoulder – Occasionally
• Push/Pull:
  • 12 lbs. or less – Frequently
  • 13-25 lbs. – Frequently
  • 26-40 lbs. – Occasionally
  • 41-100 lbs. – Not Applicable
• Climb – Occasionally
• Crawl – Occasionally
• Squat or Kneel – Occasionally
• Bend – Occasionally

Other Physical Requirements:

• Vision (Near, Distance)
• Sense of Sound (Ability to hear and understand emergency horns and radio traffic)
• Sense of Smell
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (FRC clothing, safety shoes, safety glasses, respirator)

Work Environment

Both inside a control room and in the field, exposed to the elements.