ABOUT CLARKSON GRAIN COMPANY

For over 50 years, Clarkson has been an industry pioneer in the production and supply of identity-preserved grains, oilseeds, and ingredients for food and feed industries worldwide. We work directly with end users to identify, select, and supply hybrids, varieties, and performance characteristics that improve end-product quality, enhance market access, increase process yield, and strengthen client differentiation.

Clarkson’s transparent and fully traceable system connects Midwest farmers to premium domestic and international markets. Through our aggregation and cleaning facilities, corn and soybeans are prepared for final use; cleaned, conditioned, and shipped in bulk or bagged for delivery worldwide.

The ‘Clarkson Way’ is our long-proven approach to serving customers, supporting farmers, and managing quality with care, consistency, and integrity. It reflects the discipline, practicality, and customer-driven problem-solving that have defined Clarkson for more than five decades.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• INSPECTS, LOADS, AND UNLOADS TRUCKS: Ensures traceability standards are met with the appropriate attention to detail (load right product, read the right paperwork, do not mix up product) while effectively and efficiently inspecting, loading, and unloading hopper bottom trucks, with assistance.

• PULLS CORN FROM BINS: Ensures traceability standards are met by differentiating between varieties with the appropriate attention to detail when pulling corn from the bins, with assistance.

• PROCESSES FINISHED PRODUCT: Based upon the quality of the product received from farmers, adjusts and operates the equipment on Line 1 to effectively and efficiently process a quality finished product that meets company standards, with assistance.

• MEASURES BINS: Effectively measures bins and accurately completes paperwork (daily, weekly and monthly) for quality inspection and monitoring purposes, with assistance.

• CLEANS EQUIPMENT: Cleans inside equipment (i.e. clippers, destoners, gravity tables, color sorter, magnets) autonomously and proficiently with an appropriate attention to detail as well as efficiency, with assistance.

• COMPLETES QUALITY REPORTS: With assistance, accurately completes, submits and maintains quality reports (checks quality every hour) in a timely manner. Reports any issues to Operator III and Operations Manager or Production Supervisor.

• PERFORMS MAINTENANCE: With assistance from Operator III, Operations Manager or Production Supervisor, and/or Maintenance Lead, ensures inside equipment (i.e. clippers, destoners, gravity tables, color sorter, magnets) is working properly by partnering with Maintenance Technician to perform acute maintenance in a timely manner when problems occur.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Calculate simple math equations and read measurement devices (i.e. scale, measuring tape, etc.)
• Efficiently and effectively operate a computer to monitor and adjust equipment, etc.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Communication Monitoring Information Collaborating Planning and Organizing

Continuous Improvement Adaptability Decision Making Safety Focus

Energy Earning Trust Quality Orientation Technical/Professional Knowledge & Skills

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• HS diploma, GED, or equivalent experience

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Requires a valid operator’s license or reliable mode of transportation to travel within the trade territory. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee must have the ability to regularly use arms, hands, and fingers to handle, feel, reach, grasp, turn, lift, move, twist or bend.  This position frequently requires the ability to stand for long periods of time and frequently walk, climb, or balance to reach high destinations, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 

Specific talking, hearing, smelling, and vision abilities required by this job include talking with employees; listening to conversations; visual abilities job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, night vision, depth of perception, and ability to adjust focus; and have a sense of smell to identify issues related to the facility.

When operating vehicles or machinery, must have the ability to quickly respond with the hand, arm, or foot to a sound, light, or object(s) when it appears; the ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you and quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a vehicle or machinery to exact positions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the responsibilities of the job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the employee will encounter.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.  While performing the duties of this job, this position may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, as well as dirty, wet, dry, hot, and cold working conditions.  In addition, the employee may occasionally work in high precarious places and closed in surroundings.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.