Unscrambler Operator

The Mendocino Companies (Mendocino Forest Products Company, Mendocino Redwood Company, Humboldt Redwood Company, Humboldt Sawmill Company, and Allweather Wood) own nearly 450,000 acres of Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC® C031337) certificated redwood and Douglas-fir timberland, constitute the largest waterborne wood treater in the Western USA, and is the largest producer of redwood lumber in the world. Collectively providing 950 employees and their families with excellent wages and benefits in communities throughout the Western USA. Additionally, the Mendocino Companies own and operate a 25-megaWatt biomass cogeneration power plant and wood pellet plant.

• Operates unscrambler to move rough lumber from sawmill transfer chains to trimmer lug loader, or sorter transfer chains to stacker infeed chains;
• Monitors and keeps lumber in a single layer from unscrambler to trimmer lug loader or stacker infeed chains;
• Lifts and pulls raw lumber, trash and broken boards that are skewed before, after and on top of unscramble;
• Tipples out trash or strips to waste conveyor;
• Keeps workstation area and floor below clean and clear of sawdust, wood chips, bark, strips and other foreign objects;
• Participates with team effort in work area;
• Notifies maintenance of breakdowns in work area and if needed provides assistance;
• Communicates regularly with other team members
• Keeps work area clean;
• Maintains production flow efficiency.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED);
• one year related experience and/or training is required with demonstrated ability to execute the above essential duties.
• Ability to read and interpret documents (safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals, etc.).
• Ability to add, subtract, divide, and multiply in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to read and understand instructions and memos.
• Ability to write simple sentences and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and climb or balance.
• The employee is occasionally required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this position include close, distance, color, peripheral and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• This position requires eye protection, hearing protection, leather or rubber gloves, safety shoes, hard hat, and fall protection as required.