GENERAL OPERATOR

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Job Summary: Execute the production and delivery plan while ensuring product quality and efficient resource utilization within the framework of sustainability. Key Highlights: 1. Work in the cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates industry. 2. Customer-focused business model and sustainable development. 3. Participate in anomaly analysis and improvement initiatives. Argos, with over 80 years in the market, has become a benchmark in the cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates industry through our operations in Colombia, the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean. Our business model focuses on the customer and sustainable development, meaning it is economically viable, respects people, and is environmentally friendly and responsible. **General Role/Objective** Execute the production and delivery plan while ensuring product quality and efficient resource utilization within the framework of the sustainability policy, contributing work capacity to plant activities.**Role Responsibilities** * General: + Change into work clothing and prepare required personal protective equipment (PPE) according to the activity to be performed (helmet, goggles, ear protectors, respirator, gloves, steel-toed boots, safety harness, etc.). + Maintain the work area and tools in order and cleanliness, and properly dispose of waste generated during work execution. + Participate in anomaly analysis, corrective actions, improvements, root cause analysis (RCA), procedures, and technical standards. + Keep assigned PPE clean and use it correctly. + Attend the monthly performance evaluation meeting. + Consult operation manuals, procedures, and work instructions. + Receive and hand over information from the outgoing or incoming shift. + Complete and submit the daily work schedule form to the supervisor. + Withdraw materials from the warehouse. + Locate and prepare tools for the day’s activity. + Participate in plant cleaning tasks as prioritized by the immediate supervisor. Quarry Process Operations: + Perform cleaning: sweeping, collecting materials near the source, weeding (brush clearing), ditches, sedimentation tanks, water tanks, road maintenance, and civil works. + Carry out painting and area signage activities. + Clean partition walls and diaphragms. Clinker Process Operations: + Perform cleaning: sweeping and collecting materials. + Carry out painting and area signage activities. + Clean machines obstructed by material buildup. + Remove dust from smoke chambers or dust silos. **Role Responsibilities** * Collect material from weigh belts for weighing verification. * Remove set clinker and oversized material from the grizzly screens of hoppers. * Seal openings in kiln doors with mortar. * Transport refractory materials into kilns and participate in their installation when deemed appropriate. Cement Process Operations: * Operate loading and unloading equipment (pneumatic, manual, and electric stackers, winches, etc.) as work tools for specific required tasks. * Perform cleaning: sweeping, collecting materials near the source, sumps, basements, stairs, platforms, roofs, auxiliary equipment (pumps, elevators, screw conveyors, etc.). * Carry out painting and area signage activities. * Clean machines obstructed by material buildup. * Receive packaging material and place it appropriately. * Supply packaging to the bagging machine operator and conduct inventory. * Perform and verify weighing of cement bags from bagging machines until correct weight is achieved. * Monitor breakage on each machine and transport means for bags: collect broken packaging, sort it, remove valves, place it in designated locations, and record breakage data. * Conduct inventory of broken and recovered packaging. Raw Materials Process Operations: * Participate in topographic surveys according to established procedures. * Install corresponding signage for topographic survey work in the field. * Participate in defining preventive and informative signage for the mine’s road system. * Maintain various boundary markers that constitute the mine’s coordinate base. * Maintain topographic signage in the field (stakes, bamboo poles, pipes, etc.). * Keep updated the inventory chart of various supplies allocated for topographic signage. + Clean topographic survey equipment and the vehicle assigned to the department. **Education** Academic Level: Technical Training: Industrial Production, Industrial Plant Operator**Technical Knowledge and Certifications** Working at Heights, Hazardous Energy, Confined Spaces, Load Lifting.**Experience Area** 0 \- 3 years We are an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity in all aspects of our business.