Asphalt Plant Operator

• An asphalt plant operator manages equipment that sends hot mix asphalt materials through a mixing drum and into a storage silo until it is time to be loaded into trucks.
• As an asphalt plant operator, you collaborate with the quality control department to inspect each batch of product to ensure a quality mix is produced.
• Your job duties also include assisting the plant foreman with material ordering, inventory management, plant maintenance, and record keeping.
• Maintain safety policies and all necessary paperwork, and need to communicate with road crews, truck drivers, dispatchers, and other coworkers. Some positions may require you to train and supervise asphalt workers and other general laborers.

• Climbing, stooping, bending, squatting, lifting, stretching, pushing, pulling, vibration, twisting, kneeling, standing, walking, sitting, reaching.
• Requires occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to climb stairs/ladders to top of plant.
• Uses tools such as sledge hammer, wrenches, screwdrivers, cutting torch, welder, pneumatic hammer/drill, sand blaster, pipe wrench, hand shovel.
• Answers telephone, radio, and takes and inputs orders.
• Overtime work is required.
• May be exposed to extremes of hot or cold weather.
• Requires riding to and from plant sites.

• High school graduate with strong math skills and strong mechanical aptitude.
• Minimum 3 years experience as Asphalt Plant Operator
• Experience with Aztec double barrel components & controls a plus.
• Computer literate, experience with Microsoft Excel.

• Must be able to work 10 to 12 hours a day or night and weekends when we needed.
• Ability to listen, follow directions, and have a willingness to continue to enhance skills.
• Ability to lift heavy objects, walk and stand for long periods of time and perform strenuous physical labor under adverse field conditions
• Must be able to lift, push, pull or carry objects, use abdominal and lower back muscles to provide support over time without fatigue
• Requires good manual dexterity (hand, hand with arm, two hands) and multi-limb coordination
• Frequently lifts and/or moves objects weighing up to 50 pounds, and occasionally objects weighing more than 50 pounds

Jr. Davis Construction Company, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively recruiting women and minorities for all open positions.