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Equipment Operator

Hear from an Equipment Operator in the ​
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Job Description & Primary Responsibilities:

Equipment Operators load and unload goods. They pull and stage orders for delivery with extreme accuracy. Furthermore, they ensure the product is transported from storage or receiving areas in a manner consistent with safety, quality, and production goals.
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Responsibilities: Equipment Operators are responsible for ​pulling and staging orders for delivery with extreme accuracy, loading and unloading trucks with designated products, unloading incoming products and materials ensuring specification and quantity of orders are correct, closing and sealing trucks to secure loads, ensuring product is transported meeting safety, quality and production goals, verifying stock and identify losses, keeping inventory of goods loaded, recording and signing tallies, removing, weighing, stretching wrap and recording finished pallets, providing commodities to production lines, maintaining a clean and safe working area around loading area, sampling products and notifying supervisor of any irregularities, processing reports and/or materials, and performing minor repair works as required for efficient loading operations.

Education Requirements:

Recommended High School Courses:
  • Agriculture Education
  • Diesel Mechanics
  • Mathematics
Education/Training:
  • High School Diploma
  • Forklift/Equipment Certification

Salary:

Click here for salary information.

PROJECTED JOB GROWTH:

From now until 2026, there is a projected 10% increase in jobs within PA. Click here for more information on projected employment trends.

​FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT IT TAKES TO BE An Equipment Operator, VISIT AGEXPLORER.COM or onetonline.org

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