Forest Aide jobs in Savannah, GA

Duties and Responsibilities:

Must be capable of sorting lumber good from bad to place into stacks at the roundtable according to length, width and thickness. This is actually part of a grading process to prevent bad boards from getting into the good bundles going to our customers.

Primary Duties:

• Must be capable of working at a fast pace to sort the good lumber from the bad lumber that goes into the bundles for the customer.
• This operator must be cross trained on other jobs to act as relief operator for those positions for absenteeism, breaks etc.
• Must keep the scrap lumber fed into the chipper to go to the saw dust bin for shipment to the customers.
• Must keep the bundles of lumber stacked neat and orderly for banding to go into storage.
• Must write the length width and thickness of the lumber in each bundle so it can be retrieved quickly for shipment to the customer.
• All lumber is dipped before it is sent to the lumber yard for storage.
• All lumber bundles must be banded with a hand operated bander.

Secondary Duties:

• Must perform other duties as assigned by your supervisor.
• Keep the work are clean and orderly to prevent slips, trips and falls.
• Must know how to change out the strapping on the hand operated banding machine.
• Must wear PPE at all time when working.
• Must perform minor maintenance on the strapping machine and perform preventive maintenance on the round table and conveyor system. Such as oiling, applying grease, and etc. to the equipment.

Skills needed to perform this job:

• Must know how to read and write some.
• Must know how to use basic math including whole numbers and fractions.
• Must know how to use basic tools.
• Must be capable of following instructions.
• Must be capable of learning the job in two weeks.
• Must be capable of lifting thirty-five pounds.