Power Plant Fuel Site Equipment Operator

Use mobile equipment to excavate, farm, and handle bituminous waste coal fines and coarse waste coal; reclaim rejected material; restore the site with ash and soil amendment; maintain equipment and site infrastructure; and follow safety, health, and environmental requirements.

Responsibilities

• Excavate and farm waste coal fines.
• Load and unload trucks.
• Excavate and store clay for final cover and place, compact, and grade ash.
• Mix soil for final cover and plant grasses.
• Service mobile equipment and perform mechanical maintenance.
• Maintain roads, culverts, grading, and site housekeeping.
• Ensure equipment and site conditions meet MSHA standards.
• Comply with environmental laws and control dust, erosion, sedimentation, and water treatment.
• Control fuel quality through waste coal sampling, top sizing, and tramp-material management.
• Safely operate loaders, bulldozers, excavators, water trucks, dump trucks, pumps, and other equipment.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Five to 10 years of 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 management.