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MidAmerican Energy Company · 1 day ago

Fuel Hand Tech Steps 1 of 4 (R)

Sioux City, IA

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

MidAmerican Energy Company is a Midwest utility providing regulated electric and natural gas service to over 1.6 million customers. They are seeking a Fuel Hand Tech responsible for all fuel-handling duties, including operation, servicing, and maintenance of coal equipment.

Customer ServiceEnergyHome Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Performs all work in a safe manner. Complies with all safety rules, regulations and procedures. Performs all work that they are qualified and trained to do in a manner to protect themselves, their fellow employees and the public from injury

Operates all types of mobile equipment (scrapers, endloaders, wheel dozer, and track dozer)

Operates equipment in removal of ash from silos, bunkers, storage ponds, etc

Performs minor and preventative maintenance on fuel handling equipment including railroad track

Performs minor building maintenance

Responsible for filling and maintaining levels in silos or coal bunkers

Collects and prepares coal samples for testing

Cleans railroad trackage and related equipment along with the coal conveyor systems, buildings, and structures

Lubricates and inspects conveyors

Operates and maintains fire protection systems

May assist in the unloading of fuel oil from bulk delivery vehicles

May initiate work requests

May operate overhead cranes during outages

Maintains plant grounds and yards including removal of debris, grades and repairs plant roads, mows grass and weeds, controls weeds with spraying equipment, and removes snow

Performs laboring duties such as digging ditches, shoveling of coal from around conveyors systems, hauling debris, transporting materials, and general housekeeping assignments

Operates vehicles such as, but not limited to, pickups, dump truck, vans, vacuum truck, front-end loaders, track-mobile, tanker trucks, and other coal handling mobile equipment including locomotives

Isolates equipment for maintenance activities

Make rounds of all the coal conveyor systems

Leads, trains and instructs other employees in their work

Qualification

Mobile equipment operationPreventative maintenanceCoal handlingFire protection systemsSafety complianceTeam leadership

Required

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation

Company

MidAmerican Energy Company

MidAmerican Energy Company is an electric and natural gas service provider in Iowa. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.

Founded in 1994

Des Moines, Iowa, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.midamericanenergy.com

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